Microsoft is delivering tools to quickly configure Windows PCs as workstations for Windows and Linux development.

Microsoft’s Build 2026 Windows updates add developer setup tools, local AI models, Linux workflows, and agent security controls.

First look: Microsoft is stepping up its pitch to developers who want to run AI locally, introducing a compact desktop designed for sustained, high-intensity workloads without relying on the cloud.

Two products ahead of their own marketing ...

Visual Studio includes two command-line shells for developers, a command prompt and an instance of PowerShell, as follows: -**Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt**: A standard command prompt with ...

VS Code 1.127 enhances agent session management, introduces per-site browser permissions, and makes browser tools for agents ...

MCP tool poisoning turns trusted AI agents into a control plane for data loss. Learn how threat actors manipulate tool ...

A vulnerability chain dubbed AutoJack in Microsoft's AutoGen Studio interface for prototyping AI agents could let attackers ...

You can wrap an executable file around a PowerShell script (PS1) so that you can distribute the script as an .exe file rather than distributing a “raw” script file. This eliminates the need to explain ...

This PowerShell module contains cmdlets to query instances of Visual Studio 2017 and newer. It also serves as a more useful sample of using the Setup Configuration APIs than the previously published ...

Microsoft has announced the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a new compact desktop computer designed specifically for software developers, AI engineers and researchers.

Microsoft will use a Build 2026 session to show developers how to port x86 apps to Windows on Arm using AI agents. NVIDIA and Microsoft aim to usher in "a new era of PC" with RTX Spark. That chip, ...