Catch up on Microsoft Build 2026 with the vision lead-off, top developer announcements, and must-watch sessions across the Microsoft developer ecosystem.
"A bad system will beat a good person [or agent] every time" ~Dr. William Edwards Deming (with apologies) I started vibe coding by writing prompts (often dictated into my phone), refining them with an agent in M365 Copilot, and creating handoff files to use with GitHub Copilot CLI. The results were predictably non-deterministic. Prompt-driven d...
Back in July, we launched the Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations repo with a simple goal: give the community a place to share custom instructions, prompts, and chat modes to customize the AI responses from GitHub Copilot. We were hoping for maybe one community contribution per week. That... did not happen. Instead, you all showed...
As someone who lives and breathes in the command line, I love making my terminal feel like home. Windows Terminal is full of personalization options that really allow for a custom experience. Additionally, I can stay within my terminal for my development with GitHub Copilot with the GitHub Copilot CLI. Let's walk through how you can trick out your ...
Developers are increasingly relying on AI agents to both build new software as well as extend capabilities of existing projects that they support. One challenge with AI-based systems, however, is that to produce the right output you need to first establish really good context. If you don't decide what you're building and why you're building it ahea...
At the beginning of April, agent mode rolled out to all users in Visual Studio Code. Since then, we’ve seen and heard how developers are embracing this tool and using it to transform their workflows. Now, just six weeks later, we’re excited to announce that it’s available to all developers using VS Code, Visual Studio, GitHub Codespaces, JetBrains ...
In tech, the ground shifts fast—new frameworks, new patterns, new demands. That’s why our developer tools need to move just as quickly. At Microsoft, we’re building tools that keep pace with how you build—whether you’re debugging locally in VS Code, deploying to Azure, or exploring what’s next with AI. Our goal: to help you ship faster, stay in fl...
Microsoft has two very successful DevSecOps products in the market – GitHub and Azure DevOps. Azure DevOps has a large enterprise customer base that loves the highly customizable enterprise-focused planning and tracking capabilities in Azure Boards, the robust continuous delivery capabilities in Azure Pipelines, the manual and exploratory testing c...
At Microsoft, we strive to build the world’s most beloved developer tools and services. Our vision is to empower every developer to transform their concepts into reality, from idea to code to cloud, at lightning speed. The Visual Studio family, Azure, GitHub, and GitHub Copilot empower developers around the world to do just that. Since GitHub join...
