Microsoft Executives Warn AI Could Limit the Developer Talent Pipeline
Generative AI is transforming software development at remarkable speed. But in a new paper written by two Microsoft executives, Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and Scott Hanselman, VP of the developer community, argue that the AI technology also risks eroding the profession’s training pipeline. In their paper, Redefining the Software Engineering Profession for AI, published in […]
A Blog Post About COBOL Just Cost IBM $30 Billion. Here’s What Actually Happened.
A single Anthropic blog post wiped billions off IBM’s market value—but the AI-driven COBOL modernization it described has existed for years. This is a case study in how AI hype, not fundamentals, is driving market volatility.
TypeScript 6.0 Sets Stage for Performance-Focused 7.0
Microsoft has released the beta of TypeScript 6.0, highlighting what the company describes as a transitional moment for the widely used programming language. The release will be the final version built on the JavaScript codebase, with TypeScript 7.0 slated to introduce a compiler and language service rewritten in Go. For more than a decade, TypeScript […]
‘PackageGate’ Vulnerabilities Can Let Attackers Bypass Shai-Hulud Defenses
In the wake of the massive Shai-Hulud supply chain attack that ripped through npm late last year and compromised more than 700 packages and exposed 25,000 repositories, developers in the JavaScript world embraced a two-part defense strategy. The widely adopted playbook called for disabling lifecycle scripts and using lockfiles. “It became the standard advice everywhere […]
VS Code Pushes Hard on AI Agents While Quietly Killing Free Code Completion
Microsoft’s VS Code update brings Agent HQ, TypeScript 7 preview, and kills free IntelliCode. What developers need to know about the latest changes.
Anthropic Acquires Bun to Accelerate AI Coding Tools
Anthropic says it has acquired Bun, a high-performance JavaScript toolkit, to turbocharge its artificial intelligence (AI) coding capabilities — further underscoring a significant push into developer tooling as it scales Claude Code, its code-generation platform. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Anthropic emphasized that Bun will remain open source and MIT-licensed. The […]
Report: Microsoft, AWS and Google Atop Software Development Platform Heap
The Futurum Group’s latest Signal report on Software Development Platforms names Microsoft, AWS, and Google as the top three providers, each achieving Elite status with scores above 90. Microsoft led across all five measured attributes — business value, innovation, vision, execution, and ecosystem — underscoring its longstanding developer focus. AWS and Google continue to close the gap with strong AI integration and ecosystem growth, while challengers like Oracle, IBM, Red Hat, GitHub, Atlassian, and Salesforce also scored competitively.
GitHub CEO To Step Down As Company Is More Tightly Embraced by Microsoft’s CoreAI Team
Thomas Dohmke, CEO of Microsoft Corp.-owned GitHub, said on Monday he’s stepping down and will leave the company at the end of 2025 to become “a founder again,” signaling a major shakeup in how the artificial intelligence (AI) coding unit is run. Since Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018 for $7.5 billion, it has operated as […]
Free Tiers and Open Source LLMs – Mana for Developers, Platform Engineers and QA
Development rarely follows one straight path. You sketch ideas, prototype, test, swap tools, iterate, and repeat. The increasing availability of free, limited-use AI tiers and locally run open-source AI LLMs is accelerating that loop. These tiers are not marketing fluff. They are practical on-ramps for developers and engineers. They offer the freedom to test, compare, […]
DevOps Meets Blazor in 2025: Streamlining .NET Web App Delivery for the Future
Blazor has become a mature, go-to technology for modern enterprise-grade .NET web apps, especially for teams already invested in Microsoft’s ecosystem.
Next Version of Grok Includes Advanced Coding Assistance: Reports
The newest Grok is expected to feature advanced coding assistance, a sign that owner Elon Musk is re-evaluating the chatbot’s strategy after Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI released powerful new models that set higher benchmarks for language model performance. Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) company xAI is skipping Grok 3.5 and moving straight to Grok 4. The […]
Delta CEO Puts Price Tag on CrowdStrike Damage: $500 Million
Delta Air Lines Inc. Chief Executive Ed Bastian has put a price tag on CrowdStrike Inc.’s debilitating outage to his airline, $500 million, leaving the company “no choice” but to seek damages from five days of disruptions.
CrowdStrike Software Update Sparks Microsoft Outage, Global Chaos
Airlines, hospitals, banks and other businesses were disrupted when a faulty software update knocked Windows users of their systems.
Microsoft Infuses AI into DevOps Workflows
Microsoft this week added a bevy of tools to its portfolio that infuses generative artificial intelligence (AI) into DevOps workflows.
Best of 2023: Copilots For Everyone: Microsoft Brings Copilots to the Masses
As we close out 2023, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2023. Microsoft has been doing a lot to extend the coding ‘copilot’ concept into new areas. And at its Build 2023 conference, Microsoft leadership unveiled new […]
Microsoft Previews Additional Copilot Tools for Azure
At its Ignite 2023 conference, Microsoft previewed Copilot tools to simplify the management of the Azure cloud service.
Nobl9 Allies With Microsoft to Simplify SLO Creation
Nobl9 integrated its reliability center platform for managing SLOs as code with the Microsoft Azure Monitor service to simplify creation and tracking of service levels.
NetApp Extends Microsoft Alliance to Include CloudOps Tools
NetApp extended its alliance with Microsoft to include its CloudOps portfolio of tools for optimizing cloud computing environments.
Microsoft kills Python 3.7 ¦ … and VBScript ¦ Exascaling ARM on Jupiter
In this week’s #TheLongView: VS Code drops support for Python 3.7, Windows drops VBScript, and Europe plans the fastest ARM supercomputer.
Dell Taps Microsoft to Simplify Hybrid Cloud Computing
Dell Technologies and Microsoft unveiled a platform that tightly integrates an on-premises IT environment with the Azure cloud.
80% of Bosses ‘Regret’ Stopping WFH ¦ PSA: Disable STS!
In this week’s #TheLongView: Rethinking return-to-office mandates and a ridiculous, ancient Windows bug.
Overture Maps’ Challenge to Google ¦ Frontier Model Forum’s AI Safety Shtick
In this week’s #TheLongView: A big-tech consortium goes toe-to-toe with Google Maps, and a big-tech consortium tries to fool AI regulators.
AI ‘is Getting Worse’ ¦ AI ‘Will Lose India Jobs’ (Probably Isn’t ¦ Probably Won’t)
In this week’s #TheLongView, a conundrum: On the one hand, researchers say ChatGPT is losing the plot; and on the other, outsourced coding jobs in India will be replaced by AI.