Visual Studio Magazine

Claude Opus 4.5 Lands in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio and VS Code

GitHub has added Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 to the set of models available in GitHub Copilot Chat, and the model is now selectable directly inside Microsoft developers' primary tools: Visual Studio ...
GeekWire

Microsoft adds Anthropic’s Claude AI models to 365 Copilot as OpenAI relationship evolves

Microsoft’s Researcher agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot now lets users choose Anthropic’s Claude model as an option. (Microsoft Image) Anthropic’s Claude models will be available as an option in ...

Microsoft Copilot Studio extension for VS Code now publicly available

Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment ...
Visual Studio Magazine

AI Coding Assistants Encroach on Copilot's Special GitHub Relationship

Microsoft had a great thing going when it had GitHub Copilot all to itself in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code thanks to its ownership of GitHub, but that's eroding. That relationship resulted in ...
Computerworld

Microsoft adds Claude to Copilot, but cross-cloud AI could raise new governance challenges

While Claude boosts reasoning and resilience, its AWS-hosted architecture could introduce latency, egress costs, and data sovereignty concerns, forcing CIOs to build model-aware routing and monitoring ...
NextBigFuture

AI Driven Coding Tools – Cursor, Claude Code and More

Claude Code consistently delivers the highest-quality, most production-ready code—especially for complex refactoring, tests, and multi-file edits. Gemini Code is strong for large projects, fast ...