Microsoft's recent Copilot Fall Release includes several new features for productivity, collaboration, and personalization. The release also includes updates to Copilot features in Edge and Windows, as well as integration with Microsoft's in-house AI models.

Visual Studio will adopt the Modern Support Lifecycle as a continuously updated IDE designed to deliver innovation as soon as it is ready, while maintaining the reliability and stability you count on every day with control over your build tools choices.

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The recently released Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) aims to be a schema-aware alternative to JSON that significantly reduces token consumption at a similar level of accuracy. While the existence and importance of token saved depend on the data shape, some benchmarks show TOON may use in some cases 40% fewer tokens than JSON, possibly resulting in LLM and inference cost savings.

Cloudflare’s recent global outage, linked to a database update, caused widespread disruption and highlighted the risks of single-vendor reliance. While service was restored, the incident sparked discussions on the importance of multi-vendor strategies in tech. Cloudflare's CEO vowed to enhance system resilience, emphasizing that outages can impact even the largest providers.

This week at Microsoft Ignite 2025, Azure introduces solutions that address your technology strategy questions with innovations designed for this very inflection point.

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Learn about the new AI features and products In Azure announced at Microsoft Ignite 2025 to help modernize your cloud infrastructure.

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Learn what features are in C# 14, which ships as part of .NET 10.

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Microsoft announced the general availability of .NET 10, describing it as the most productive, modern, secure, and high-performance version of the platform to date. As stated by the company, the release is the result of a year-long effort involving thousands of contributors. It includes improvements across the runtime, libraries, languages, tools, frameworks, and workloads.

Faster responses, a lower chance of rate limiting, and 10% off premium requests for paid users – auto picks the best available model for each request based on current capacity and performance. With auto, you don’t need to choose a specific model. Copilot automatically selects the best one for your task. Auto model selection in […]

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Announcing the release of .NET 10, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. With updates across ASP.NET Core, C# 14, .NET MAUI, Aspire, and so much more.

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The biggest .NET event of the year is just one week away! Join us November 11-13 for .NET 10 and Visual Studio 2026, plus a Student Zone on November 14th.

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