Microsoft Corp. is updating Microsoft Copilot, its collection of conversational search services, with new features that will enable users to find information and perform data science tasks more easily ...

Microsoft has agreed to buy coder-community company GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock, solidifying its recent commitment to open-source software development. GitHub’s website offers a way for software ...

Microsoft on Tuesday announced an artificial intelligence system that can recommend code for software developers to use as they write code. Microsoft is looking to simplify the process of programming, ...

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has claimed about thirty percent of code in at least some of the Windows titan's repositories was written by an AI.… Nadella revealed that number during an interview with ...

Microsoft has released a new version of its hit Python extension for its cross-platform code editor Visual Studio Code (VS Code) that makes its Pylance language server the default. Microsoft started ...

When one of the first personal computers, the Altair 8800 came along in 1976, Microsoft was ready with a programming language, Altair BASIC. It wants to be equally prepared when quantum computers go ...

Microsoft announced the coming new capabilities during the opening day, May 25, of its virtual Build 2021 developers conference. Officials said these new features will be in public preview in English ...

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Company strips down its Shared Source Initiative to three licenses, one of which is modeled on the Mozilla Public License. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge ...

Microsoft and Code.org have come together to debut Minecraft Designer, a free tutorial for students aged 6 and up that uses the Minecraft environment to teach coding. Minecraft Designer is a free, ...