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2025 was a year of incredible progress for AI and our industry as a whole. At Microsoft and GitHub, we've innovated beyond isolated chats and prompts to building systems that collaborate with connected workflows and operational intelligence. This shift can be seen across the stack, from Microsoft Foundry, to GitHub Copilot in VS Code and Visual Stu...

Mobile security goes beyond verifying user identity. If an attacker steals a valid token, how will your backend distinguish a legitimate request from one reproduced in an emulator or cloned environment? This is a gap in traditional authentication flows when applied to the mobile environment. By linking each request to hardware-backed keys genera...

December 10, 2025 8 am - 10 am Pacific Registration: https://aka.ms/OSSAISummitRegistration Overview AI development is moving at a pace that leaves most teams reacting instead of leading. The next generation of applications will be built by people who understand how to design agents, coordinate tools, and create workflows that can handle re...

Managing containers can be one of the most repetitive parts of modern development. Between remembering CLI commands, switching contexts, and digging through logs, it’s easy to lose focus on the actual code you’re building. The latest release of the VS Code Container Tools extension changes that by putting Copilot directly into your workflow - so yo...

Microsoft has long provided interoperability information, interfaces, and tools to help our vibrant ecosystem of partners integrate their products and services with Microsoft 365 productivity applications. This ecosystem includes communication and collaboration solution providers that compete with Microsoft Teams. Alongside these resources, we have...

At this year’s GitHub Universe, we set out to answer a simple question: What would it take to go from an idea to production in under 30 minutes – using only natural language, your editor, and AI? On stage, we built a cloud-native, intelligent app from scratch using Visual Studio Code, GitHub Copilot, and the Microsoft Agent Framework. In thi...

AI is changing how we build software, but it also introduces new challenges: how do you know if your AI application is giving the right answers and producing the right outcomes? Evaluations (often referred to simply as ‘evals’) provide a structured way to measure quality so you can trust your results. In this blog, we’ll introduce the concept of...

How I built a full-featured podcast analytics dashboard with GitHub Copilot without writing a single line of code myself.

In March of this year Anders Hejlsberg announced TypeScript 7 native preview and in May Daniel posted Announcing TypeScript Native Previews. Visual Studio 2026 Insiders now supports TypeScript’s Native Preview. Use the download link below to install the latest preview of Visual Studio to try this out. When using this new preview, your compile times...