There was a time when Adobe Flash was the king of the internet, and Microsoft wanted a piece of the pie. In a bid to make a breakthrough, the company came up with a tool known as Silverlight, and the ...

Code::Blocks is a free open source IDE; it is established in C++ using wxWdigets as the GUI tool kit. Code::Blocks support compilers such as C, C++, and Fortran. Plugins extend Code::Blocks; its ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

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Microsoft is signaling a shift in its AI priorities, favoring Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 over OpenAI's GPT-5 models in its flagship developer tool, Visual Studio Code.

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Microsoft announced two related updates for Visual Studio: support for bringing your own model (BYOM) to Copilot Chat and general availability of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) client in the IDE.

In brief: Once again, Microsoft is pushing its automatic updates agenda. The company's latest policy update shows how quickly it can shift control away from users, raising questions about flexibility ...

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Microsoft is adding automatic AI model selection to its Visual Studio Code editor that will automatically pick the best model ...

GitHub unveiled an open-source dev kit designed to help developers adopt spec-driven development with AI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code and Gemini CLI, moving beyond quick "vibe-coding" ...

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