Microsoft is signaling a shift in its AI priorities, favoring Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 over OpenAI's GPT-5 models in its flagship developer tool, Visual Studio Code.

Microsoft is adding automatic AI model selection to its Visual Studio Code editor that will automatically pick the best model ...

Aa OpenAI is looking beyond Microsoft for cloud services, Microsoft is quietly updating its AI strategy inside Visual Studio ...

微软宣布将在其Visual Studio Code编辑器中引入自动AI模型选择功能，以实现最佳性能。该功能将根据用户需求自动选择最合适的AI模型，免费用户可选Claude Sonnet 4、GPT-5和GPT-5 mini等模型，而付费用户则主要使用Claude Sonnet 4。

Although Visual Studio Code is a very useful lightweight code editor, it is actually vanilla Visual Studio that is Microsoft's flagship integrated development environment (IDE). As such, Microsoft ...

Microsoft has declared general availability for MCP (model context protocol) servers in Visual Studio, likely to be the second most popular IDE after Visual Studio Code and with wide enterprise use.

Crashes occur during the initial IDE startup when loading extensions or caches, immediately after installing updates (e.g., .NET upgrades or Visual Studio patches), or during specific actions such as ...

It isn't only Windows 10 due for the support axe on October 14. Other Microsoft products will soon be stashed in Redmond's cupboard of forgotten dreams, including the venerable Visual Studio 2015.