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AI powerhouse NVIDIA flexed its muscle at its GTC 2025 conference this week where several partnerships with Microsoft were announced, mostly concerning Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry offering.
03/21/2025
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Microsoft's VS Code dev team rides the vibe.
03/20/2025
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According to the release notes, however, most dev-team attention was devoted to small fixes, features and functionality, as was the case in Preview 1, which shipped a few weeks ago.
03/19/2025
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OpenSilver, an open-source, WebAssembly-based reimplementation of the deprecated Microsoft Silverlight, now supports .NET MAUI Hybrid for cross-platform web and native app development.
03/18/2025
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Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of neural network quantile regression. The goal of a quantile regression problem is to predict a single numeric value with an assurance such as, "The predicted y value is 0.6789 and there's roughly a 90% chance the prediction will be greater than or equal to the true y value."
03/17/2025
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Microsoft's Mads Kristensen took to social media to ask Visual Studio developers to share their favorite prompts to get GitHub Copilot AI to improve their code.
03/14/2025
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Microsoft is expanding functionality for agentic AI into its Azure AI Foundry platform, furthering one of the hottest areas of development right now where AI controls computers just like humans.
03/13/2025
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Things are happening quickly in the Microsoft-centric AI dev space, with the company previewing new AI features in Visual Studio 2022 ranging from a new .NET AI template to GPT-4o Copilot Code Completion.
03/12/2025
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Microsoft is revamping its TypeScript programming language with a native compiler and toolset. This effort seeks to address performance challenges, especially in large codebases, by porting the existing TypeScript compiler from TypeScript/JavaScript to the native language, Go.
03/11/2025
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Uno Platform has taken its "Hot Design" feature to public beta, extending the "Hot Reload" paradigm with functionality to visually edit and refine a running app in real-time.
03/10/2025
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Continuing the journey from "AI pair programmer" to "autonomous peer programmer" to, eventually, just "AI programmer," no human coding needed, just supervision.
03/06/2025
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With everyone scrambling to keep abreast of the rapidly advancing GenAI space, where some new tool or tech seems to be announced every week, Azure AI Foundry has emerged as a crucial end-to-end platform in the Microsoft-centric developer space.
03/06/2025
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Some developers complained that advanced AI models come sooner to VS Code than Visual Studio, but the new Claude Sonnet 3.7 model is now available in IDE with a paid GitHub Copilot account and a simple settings tweak in GitHub.
03/05/2025
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With agentic AI now firmly established as a key component of modern software development, Microsoft graduated its Semantic Kernel Agent Framework to Release Candidate 1 status.
03/04/2025
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Microsoft shipped TypeScript 5.8 with improved type checking in some scenarios, but thorny problems caused the dev team to delay related work to the next release.
03/04/2025
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Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demo of Poisson regression, where the goal is to predict a count of things arriving, such as the number of telephone calls received in a 10-minute interval at a call center. When your source data is close to mathematically Poisson distributed, Poisson regression is simple and effective.
03/03/2025
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Along with .NET 10 Preview 1, Microsoft released.NET Aspire 9.1, the latest update to its opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building resilient, observable, and configurable cloud-native applications with .NET.
02/26/2025
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Microsoft shipped .NET 10 Preview 1, introducing a raft of improvements and fixes across performance, libraries, and the developer experience.
02/26/2025
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Microsoft's dev team has been busy updating the C# Dev Kit, a Visual Studio Code extension that enhances the C# development experience by providing tools for managing, debugging, and editing C# projects.
02/26/2025
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New Vision support with GitHub Copilot in the latest Visual Studio Code Insiders build takes a user-supplied mockup image and creates a web page from it in seconds, handling all the HTML and CSS.
02/20/2025
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Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the naive Bayes regression technique, where the goal is to predict a single numeric value. Compared to other machine learning regression techniques, naive Bayes regression is usually less accurate, but is simple, easy to implement and customize, works on both large and small datasets, is highly interpretable, and doesn't require tuning any hyperparameters.
02/20/2025
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The 4o upgrade includes additional training on more than 275,000 high-quality public repositories in over 30 popular programming languages, said Microsoft-owned GitHub, which created the original "AI pair programmer" years ago.
02/19/2025
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"Rust's strong type system and ownership model help prevent common programming errors such as null pointer dereferencing and buffer overflows, leading to more secure and stable code."
02/19/2025
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Just after expanding the reach of its Copilot AI coding assistant to the open-source Eclipse IDE, Microsoft showcased how it's going even further, providing details about a preview version for the Xcode IDE from archrival Apple.
02/19/2025
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Two Microsoft experts will present on the cloud-native application stack designed to simplify the development of distributed systems in .NET at the Visual Studio Live! developer conference coming to Las Vegas next month.
02/19/2025
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Catering to Java jockeys, Microsoft is yet again expanding the sprawling reach of its Copilot-branded AI assistants, previewing a coding tool for the open-source Eclipse IDE.
02/13/2025
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New GitHub Copilot AI features range from AI-enhanced feature search to edits across files, new shortcuts and expansion of slash commands, along with much more.
02/12/2025