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Apple XCode

Apple Announces XCode 16, Swift 6, More for Developers

With all the interesting end-user features that Apple announced today, it's easy to forget that…

.NETpad WPF is modernized
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Modernizing .NETpad: First Steps (Premium)

I've taken the first steps in modernizing the WPF version of my .NETpad app, and…

The orchestrator
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Orchestration (Premium)

As Microsoft builds more AI functionality into Windows, I imagine an even more sophisticated future…

Google Gemini 1.5 Pro and Flash

Google Gemini 1.5 Pro and 1.5 Flash are Generally Available

Google today released its Gemini 1.5 Pro and 1.5 Flash large language models in stable…

.NETpad WPF updated with WinUI
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Welcome Back, WPF (Premium)

Build 2024 delivered many surprises, but among the most interesting to me was the unexpected…

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2022

Build 2024: Microsoft Ships Visual Studio 2022 17.10

At Build 2024 today in Seattle, Microsoft announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2022…

.NET stack

Build 2024: .NET Announces Updates for AI, Web, Cloud-First, Cross-Platform, and More

At Build 2024 today, Microsoft announced the release of .NET 9 Preview 4 and a…

Microsoft Phi open models

Build 2024: Phi-3-Vision Brings Multimodality to Microsoft’s Open SLM Family

At its Build 2024 developer show, Microsoft announced that its first multimodal SLM, Phi-3-vision, is…

Dev Home's new Environments interface

Build 2024: Microsoft to Update the Windows 11 Developer Experience

During its Build 2024 keynote, Microsoft revealed several updates to the Windows 11 developer experience…

Windows Copilot runtime
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Windows Copilot Runtime Isn’t a Runtime, and WPF is Back, Baby (Premium)

During Monday's Microsoft AI event, Pavan Davuluri threw out an unexpected term, Windows Copilot runtime,…

Build 2024: Microsoft Partners with Khan Academy on AI in Education

Build 2024: Microsoft Partners with Khan Academy on AI in Education

This morning at Build 2024, Microsoft announced a partnership with Khan Academy to spread the…

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Build 2024: GitHub Copilot Comes to Visual Studio as Visual Studio Code for Education Goes GA

Microsoft announced two major updates for its Visual Studio family of developer tools at its…

Build 2024: Copilots for Developers, Power Platform Updates

Build 2024: Copilots for Developers, Power Platform Updates

Microsoft's "Book of News" for Build 2024 mentions the term "copilot" exactly 100 times across…

Seattle waterfront

See You at Microsoft Build 2024 in Seattle!

I'm flying to Seattle on Sunday to attend Microsoft Build 2024, preview new Snapdragon-based laptops,…

Opera is native on Arm

Opera Goes Native on Windows on Arm

Opera announced today that it is bringing its flagship desktop web browser to Windows 11…

Gemini in Project IDX

Google Delivers a Metric Ton of AI to Developers at I/O 2024

Among the many announcements this morning, Google is bringing its Gemini Nano model to the…

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