While Anthropic is dealing with a government-ordered suspension of its newest Fable and Mythos models, Microsoft is emphasizing a more enterprise-ready Claude path through Microsoft Foundry.

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Visual Studio Code 1.126 adds AI chat cost tracking, multiple Copilot chats in one session, and a safer Restricted Mode for ...

Free AI in IDEs is shifting to paid models. The latest VS Code update brings transparent cost tracking and multi-chat ...

Microsoft has moved its Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for Azure Functions to General Availability, signaling a shift toward standardized, identity-secure agentic workflows. By integrating ...

Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment is now available to all users. Developers can use it to build and manage ...

Microsoft announced that Azure MCP Server capabilities are now included out-of-the-box in Visual Studio 2026, which went GA this week and rewrote the usual long form of the acronym IDE, turning it ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has long been the financial lifeline of OpenAI, but its growing reliance on Anthropic's models suggests that loyalty may be giving way to performance. By favoring Anthropic in ...

Microsoft has released a new tool to make cloud development easier, launching a public preview of its “GitHub Copilot for Azure” extension for Visual Studio 2022. The new tool integrates a suite of ...

Microsoft has released GitHub Copilot for Azure as an extension for Visual Studio 2022. It integrates a set of Azure dev tools within GitHub Copilot Agent Mode. Microsoft has launched a public preview ...

Azure Data Studio will officially be retired on February 28, 2026. Microsoft just announced the retirement in a blog post, recommending that all users try out the alternatives: Visual Studio Code and ...

Azure Data Studio (ADS) is retiring in 2025, with migration recommended to Visual Studio Code (VS Code). VS Code with the MSSQL extension offers better features like improved query execution, schema ...