Beyond Copilot usage visibility, the June update delivers several other enhancements centered on AI-assisted development, security and quality-of-life improvements. Here's a quick rundown of the ...

TypeScript 7.0 delivers major performance gains as Microsoft joins a broader shift toward native developer tooling.

"The reality is, when you're optimizing for production, you start looking at a price/performance," Guillermo Rauch tells ...

Windows 11 provides a rich GUI, but it also supports various command line interfaces (CLIs) through a modern Terminal app.

Microsoft has been rethinking its commitment to Windows for a while now, with Insider builds of the operating system showing a swing away from web-based user experiences and back to native code. That ...

PowerShell was developed by Microsoft and first introduced in 2006 as version 1.0. At its core, it was designed to address the limitations of the traditional command prompt, providing a more robust ...

Microsoft’s Build 2026 Windows updates add developer setup tools, local AI models, Linux workflows, and agent security controls. Windows is getting a major developer-focused upgrade as Microsoft ...

Microsoft unveiled a series of major AI-focused announcements at its Build 2026 developer conference, including the new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box AI workstation, next-gen quantum chip – Majorana 2, ...

At the Build conference, Microsoft announced the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a mini-PC built for local AI development, training jobs, and agentic pipelines. Powered by Nvidia’s new Spark ARM processor ...

Microsoft is embracing Linux-like command line utilities and integrating its Linux subsystem even further into Windows. Microsoft is embracing Linux-like command line utilities and integrating its ...

The Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is designed for local-first AI development. The Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is designed for local-first AI development. is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who ...