TL;DR: Save 90% on Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 while codes last. If you’re still working with a basic IDE or an outdated version of Visual Studio, this is a rare price drop on the newest ...

After decades of using both Google's and Microsoft's productivity suites, it's clear that one continues to deliver the strongest combination of power, flexibility, and collaborative capability. I've ...

Microsoft published a walkthrough demonstrating how to upgrade a .NET AI chat app built from the official .NET AI templates to use the new Microsoft Agent Framework. The preview framework extends ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has long been the financial lifeline of OpenAI, but its growing reliance on Anthropic's models suggests that loyalty may be giving way to performance. By favoring Anthropic in ...

The big picture: The Windows ecosystem has offered an unparalleled level of backward compatibility for decades. However, Microsoft is now working to remove as many legacy technologies as possible in ...

Microsoft has reminded customers about the ongoing deprecation of VBScript in Windows, explaining what to do with legacy VBA projects. From time to time, Microsoft deprecates legacy components in ...

However, approach with caution: MCP servers are increasingly becoming a new way to hijack systems or launch cyberattacks, research shows. Microsoft has added Model Context Protocol (MCP) support to ...

With Visual Studio, you can specify which warnings you want to suppress by specifying the warning codes in the Project Designer (project property pages). You can also suppress warnings by setting ...

A new orchestration platform will let developers update any app through Windows Update. A new orchestration platform will let developers update any app through Windows Update. is a senior editor and ...

Love ’em or loath ’em, spreadsheets help make the world go round. Even during tough economic periods, businesses and companies seek out workers who have experience creating, managing and organizing ...

The Developer tab unlocks powerful automation tools in Excel—macro recording, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), XML import, and form-controls. Because most users rarely use these features, ...

For most users, Windows 10 will stop receiving security updates and other official support from Microsoft on October 14, 2025, about five months from today. Until recently, Microsoft had also said ...