After telling employees to stop using Claude Code, Microsoft's internal memo has more 'bad news' for Anthropic

Microsoft has officially designated OpenAI's GPT-5.6 as the standard model for its engineering team, responding to a push for ...
Forbes

Microsoft Confirms New And Widespread 2FA Code Attacks Ongoing

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Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code Agent Plugins Go Cross-Client with New Open Standard

Microsoft has aligned VS Code's existing agent-plugin feature with a vendor-neutral format for portable skills and MCP servers.
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These lightweight editors are faster than VS Code, but Microsoft's 100,000 extensions keep me hostage

The editor was the easy part to replace.
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code 1.131 Adds Built-In Dictation, Hybrid Markdown Editing and Subagent Status

Microsoft's fifth July update expands agent monitoring, adds offline speech transcription and changes Python environment management.