Github Copilot
The latest Github Copilot coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
GitHub Copilot Free Users Lose Manual Model Choice: Auto-Routing Mandatory From June 24, 2026
GitHub Copilot’s free ride just hit a speed bump—if you’re on the Free or Student plan, you’ll soon lose the ability to manually select which AI model powers your coding assistant. The...
Inside GitHub’s Best Month Ever: How Usage-Based Pricing Unleashed a Copilot Boom
GitHub’s internal message was unambiguous: June 2026 was the platform’s single best month in its history, driven by an explosive surge in Copilot adoption that executives directly attribute to...
Microsoft Arms GitHub Copilot with Homegrown MAI-Code-1-Flash, Escalates AI Coding War Against Claude
Microsoft chose the Build 2026 stage in early June to fire a direct shot at Anthropic’s Claude Code, unveiling MAI-Code-1-Flash — a 5-billion-parameter in-house coding model designed from the...
Microsoft’s Speedy MAI-Code-1-Flash Model Lands in Copilot CLI, Visual Studio, and Everywhere Else
Microsoft and GitHub shipped one of the fastest code-generation models they’ve ever built into nearly every surface where developers work, turning the experimental MAI-Code-1-Flash into a native...
VS Code 1.116 Embeds GitHub Copilot Directly Into the Editor with Native Chat and Agent Tools
Visual Studio Code version 1.116, released on April 15, 2026, marks a turning point for millions of developers who rely on GitHub Copilot. The update makes Copilot Chat a built-in feature of the...
Microsoft to Lean on Outside Cloud Providers by June 2026 as AI Strains Azure Capacity, EU Eyes DMA Gatekeeper Rules
Microsoft’s aggressive AI expansion is pushing its Azure cloud infrastructure to the brink, forcing the company to plan for a reliance on third-party cloud providers by June 2026 to handle surging...
GitHub Copilot Goes Standalone: Desktop App Now Empowers Developers to Oversee AI Code Generation
On June 17, 2026, GitHub officially released its standalone Copilot desktop application for Windows, macOS, and Linux, marking a significant shift from an IDE plugin to a dedicated workspace for...
GitHub Reports 9 Outages in May 2026 as AI Workloads Overload Platform
GitHub suffered nine service-degrading incidents in May 2026, according to the company's latest availability report. The Microsoft-owned platform, which hosts the world's largest collection of...
GitHub Copilot Desktop App Preview Opens to Paid Users, Drops Waitlist
GitHub has opened the technical preview of the GitHub Copilot desktop application to all eligible paid subscribers, eliminating the waitlist that had been in place since its initial announcement. The...
Microsoft Blocks Claude Fable 5 Internally – Data Retention Fears Clash with AI Availability
Microsoft has ordered its employees to stop using Anthropic’s newly released Claude Fable 5 model immediately, pending a 30-day security and compliance review. The internal advisory, distributed on...
Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 Arrives on Microsoft Foundry with Enterprise-Grade Guardrails
Microsoft has announced the availability of Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 across its Microsoft Foundry platform, Foundry Agent Service, and GitHub Copilot as of June 9, 2026. This move brings a...
GitHub AI Credits Launch June 2026: Token Metering Replaces Premium Requests
GitHub has officially retired its premium request model for Copilot, pivoting to a token-metered GitHub AI Credits system as of June 1, 2026. The shift fundamentally alters how developers pay for...