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Visual Studio Code 1.140, released September 30, adds a Copilot harness on an agent host process, multi-folder sessions, remote delegation tools, HydraFusion model orchestration and a worktree symlink setting.
Microsoft's open-source WSL containers feature reached general availability on September 29 with WSL 3.0.1, adding a Docker-style wslc.exe CLI, a Windows API, and enterprise controls.
Microsoft has elevated Rust to Tier-1 status alongside C++, C#, and TypeScript, and detailed a new compiler backend linking Rust to MSVC.
Visual Studio Code 1.139 extends Dev Container agent sessions to remote hosts and speeds up large agent session lists by up to 12x, Microsoft says.
Newly unredacted filings in the NYT v. OpenAI and Microsoft copyright suit quote a Microsoft director calling AI scraping practices theft and OpenAI's ChatGPT head calling them an existential threat to publishers.
Microsoft AI's new speech-recognition model prices audio transcription at $0.10 per hour, undercutting OpenAI, Google, and ElevenLabs on price and speed.
Microsoft's first .NET 11 release candidate ships with a go-live support license and locks in C# 15's union types, closed hierarchies, and four other preview-era language features as stable defaults.
At Hot Chips 2026, Microsoft and an accompanying arXiv paper detailed Maia 200's software-defined dataflow architecture, a 750-watt inference chip delivering 10,145 Tflop/s of FP4 compute.
Microsoft has pulled the WMIC command-line utility from Windows 11 24H2, 25H2, and 26H1 builds, ending a tool long abused by ransomware and other attackers.
Microsoft's updated small-tier coding model rolls out in GitHub Copilot with native vision support, a 73% lower list price, and double-digit gains on coding benchmarks.
A researcher known as Nightmare Eclipse disclosed an unpatched Windows Defender privilege-escalation flaw, saying Microsoft's legal threats left public disclosure as the only option.
Check Point traced CVE-2026-68820, a WinSock kernel flaw, to a North Korean campaign deploying the FudModule rootkit against defense contractors before Microsoft patched it.