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The latest Visual Studio Code coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Windows 10's October 2025 Deadline Nears: Consumer Reports Intervenes on Behalf of Stranded Users
Microsoft’s October 14, 2025, cutoff for Windows 10 support is non-negotiable — but a high-profile consumer watchdog is demanding that the company soften the blow for the millions of devices left...
Claude 4 Takes Over as Default Copilot AI in VS Code's Auto Mode
Microsoft has quietly flipped a switch inside Visual Studio Code that changes which AI model answers your coding questions. For paid GitHub Copilot users who enable the new "auto model selection"...
Semarchy Integrates Master Data Management Directly into Microsoft Fabric, Unleashing AI-Ready Insights
Semarchy has fired a precise shot across the bow of enterprise analytics, announcing a deep integration that funnels mastered, governed data products directly into Microsoft Fabric and OneLake. The...
CVE-2025-55319: How Agentic AI in Visual Studio Code Can Enable Remote Code Execution
A newly listed vulnerability in Microsoft’s Security Response Center, CVE-2025-55319, pulls back the curtain on a dangerous new class of attacks: prompt injections that weaponize agentic AI...
xAI Drops Grok Code Fast 1: Agentic Coding Now in VS Code at $1.50/M Output Tokens
Elon Musk's xAI just launched Grok Code Fast 1, a coding-first, tool-aware model purpose-built for agentic development workflows. The model lands inside Visual Studio Code and third-party extensions...
Why JSON.parse Crashes Your Windows Apps—and the 10-Minute Fix That Works Every Time
Every Windows developer has encountered the moment: a script halts, a service won't start, and the log screams "SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0". The JSON parse error is the...
Macrohard: Elon Musk's AI Swarm Set to Disrupt Microsoft's Windows Development Stack
Elon Musk wants to build Microsoft. Not buy it—build it, piece by piece, with AI. On August 1, his xAI filed a trademark application for "Macrohard," a tongue-in-cheek name for a deadly serious...
Elon Musk's Macrohard Plans to Simulate Microsoft Using Autonomous AI Agents
Elon Musk announced on August 22, 2025, that he is launching a “purely AI software company” named Macrohard—a cheeky but calculated move targeting Microsoft directly. The announcement, made on...
Microsoft’s Open Source Journey: From Linux Kernel Contributions to Powering ChatGPT and Microsoft 365
Microsoft, once a skeptic of open source, now runs its most demanding workloads on it—including the nearly 700-million-user ChatGPT service and the containerized backbone of Microsoft 365. The...
Azure Tops Gartner’s 2025 Cloud-Native Platform Rankings With Serverless GPU and AI Push
Microsoft Azure took the top spot in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms, claiming the furthest position on Completeness of Vision. The analyst firm’s recognition...
Google's Free Gemini Coding Tools Give Solo Developers a Generous Alternative to Paid Copilot — But a 2026 Deadline Lies Ahead
Google’s free, open-source developer tooling now unlocks the same Gemini 2.5 Pro model that Microsoft just added to paid GitHub Copilot tiers – and often with more generous interactive quotas and...
Microsoft Rolls Out GPT-5 With Smart Mode and Automated Model Router Across Copilot, GitHub, and Foundry
Microsoft has embedded OpenAI's most advanced reasoning engine into nearly every major product line, flipping on GPT-5 across consumer Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Visual Studio...