VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and offline models, but with some limits. Microsoft has been pushing hard to make ...

VS Code 1.125 shows additional Copilot budget usage in the status dashboard. GitHub activated AI-credit billing for all Copilot plans on June 1. Recent VS Code and GitHub updates added more billing ...

Visual Studio Code, the popular development text editor and IDE, has rolled out its big July 2025 release. The v1.103 update adds new Git and terminal integrations, better language support, and more.

Visual Studio Code 1.126 adds session-level Copilot cost information, expanding cost visibility beyond individual chat turns. The update follows recent VS Code additions including a Copilot spend ...

Microsoft's June 9 Visual Studio 2026 update shipped three features that, taken together, address a structural problem the June 1 GitHub Copilot billing transition created: the IDE had become the only ...

Visual Studio Code backs multi-chat Claude sessions Multi-chat Claude sessions allow VS Code users to run multiple related conversation threads in one Claude agent session instead of separate ...

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Microsoft Comic Chat is a Microsoft-developed Internet Relay Chat (IRC) chat client released in 1996 that rendered conversations as automatically generated comic strips. Instead of plain text, users ...