The original AI-powered code completion tool stemming from early OpenAI technology, GitHub Copilot, now comes in a free tier for the Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code, along with other editors.

GitHub has added Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 to the set of models available in GitHub Copilot Chat, and the model is now selectable directly inside Microsoft developers' primary tools: Visual Studio ...

Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub is complete, and former Xamarin CEO Nat Friedman is now in charge of the cloud code management service. It wasn’t a surprising acquisition: Over the last few years, ...

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2019 16.4, the newest version of its full integrated developer environment (IDE) that was launched in April. Developers on Stack Overflow nominated Visual Studio ...

About three years ago Microsoft released a new source code editor for Windows, Linux, and macOS. This was named Visual Studio Code. It is way lighter IDE than various editions of the legendary Visual ...

Microsoft is now rolling out Visual Studio Code version 1.108, also known as the December 2025 update. It some great terminal improvements, more Git features, new capabilities for AI agents, and other ...