Microsoft is bringing five more Claude-native capabilities to Azure-hosted deployments, extending a pattern of accommodating Anthropic's models, APIs and agent tooling across Microsoft and GitHub ...
Nine out of ten developers regularly use a coding agent. Claude Code leads the popularity list by a large margin.
Visual Studio 2026 v18.8 includes built-in Agent Skills created by Microsoft's .NET and Azure teams. Skills provide reusable, task-specific instructions, workflows and guardrails that Copilot loads ...
VS Code model picker now allows users to switch between Anthropic and Copilot providers between turns reconfiguring the agent host. Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.133, an update to its ...
Microsoft's June 9 Visual Studio 2026 update shipped three features that, taken together, address a structural problem the June 1 GitHub Copilot billing transition created: the IDE had become the only ...