Microsoft is moving the best Copilot features in Office behind a paywall

The "free" access to Copilot inside Word and Excel is ending as Microsoft splits the assistant into "Basic" and "Premium" ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Visual Studio Code 1.112 Adds Integrated Browser Debugging, More Copilot CLI Control

Visual Studio Code 1.112, released March 18, expands Copilot agent autonomy, adds MCP server sandboxing on macOS and Linux, enables in-editor web app debugging, and broadens monorepo support for agent ...
InfoWorld

Visual Studio Code previews chat customizations editor

Just-released Version 1.113 of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor emphasizes improvements ranging from chat customizations ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Publishes Model Context Protocol Lab for Copilot Studio

A new GitHub repo serves as a lab for creating a Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server and using it in Microsoft Copilot Studio. The MCP, originated by AI leader Anthropic and taken open source, is a ...
TMCnet

Lens Launches Built-In MCP Server Connecting AI Coding Assistants to Kubernetes

The new MCP capability builds on Lens Prism, the built-in AI assistant for Kubernetes troubleshooting in Lens Desktop. It ...