Tom Fenton tackles seven free and open-source AI tools bring local chat, coding, voice, design and research capabilities to personal computers and self-hosted environments.

Open-source software tools continue to surge in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack of ...

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 provides tools to turn a slightly unreasonable idea and a blinking cursor into functional software.

The AI-assisted editor now works alongside the platform's MCP server and interactive documentation, giving developers plain-language code generation, debugging, and reference lookup across a single ...

Nahda Nabiilah is a Staff Writer from Indonesia. She has always loved writing and playing games, so one day she decided to combine the two. She couldn't believe that she could make a career out of two ...

From VS Code to Azure's free tier, here are 50 Microsoft tools you can try for free right now, organized by category ahead of Build 2026 on June 2-3.

This vibe coding cheat sheet explains how plain-language prompts can build apps fast, plus the planning, testing, and security checks needed. Software development is undergoing a seismic shift as vibe ...

Debug, Test, and Deploy From One Platform—Microsoft Visual Studio Pro 2026 Is Just $35 You'll be able to debug and edit code with teammates without requiring identical setups, and simplify remote ...

Preview of new companion app allows developers to run multiple agent sessions in parallel across multiple repos and iterate on human and agent reviews. Visual Studio Code 1.115, the latest release of ...

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.112, shortly after announcing a faster release cadence for the popular editor. Despite the quicker update cycle, this release introduces several notable ...