Github Copilot
The latest Github Copilot coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Google's Free Gemini Coding Tools Give Solo Developers a Generous Alternative to Paid Copilot — But a 2026 Deadline Lies Ahead
Google’s free, open-source developer tooling now unlocks the same Gemini 2.5 Pro model that Microsoft just added to paid GitHub Copilot tiers – and often with more generous interactive quotas and...
Microsoft's $13 Billion Bet: How ChatGPT Became the Brain Behind Copilot—Without Microsoft Owning a Byte
ChatGPT is not a Microsoft product. Let’s get that straight first: the conversational AI that has upended search, coding, and content creation was built, trained, and is operated entirely by...
Visual Studio Gets MCP GA: Copilot Can Now Securely Access Databases, CI, and More
Microsoft has released general availability of Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration in Visual Studio, marking a pivotal shift in how developers wield AI assistants. Starting today, GitHub Copilot...
Microsoft’s GPT-5 Ecosystem Overhaul: Smart Routing, Deeper Reasoning, and Enterprise Guardrails
Microsoft has simultaneously activated OpenAI’s GPT-5 family across its entire productivity, development, and cloud portfolio—a coordinated day-one deployment that embeds advanced reasoning into...
Microsoft’s GPT-5 Overhaul: How Smart Mode Is Transforming Every Business Tool
Microsoft didn’t just update Copilot on August 7—it lit the fuse on a platform-wide explosion of GPT-5 across every major product surface, from consumer Windows apps to enterprise cloud APIs. The...
Microsoft Rolls Out GPT-5 With Smart Mode and Automated Model Router Across Copilot, GitHub, and Foundry
Microsoft has embedded OpenAI's most advanced reasoning engine into nearly every major product line, flipping on GPT-5 across consumer Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Visual Studio...
GPT-5's Windows Debut Brings Smarter AI, But Cautionary Tales Remain
Microsoft has embedded OpenAI’s new GPT‑5 reasoning engine into Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Visual Studio just days after launch—bringing expanded context windows, model‑routing “Smart...
OpenAI’s GPT-5 Stage Show Featured Google, But Microsoft Got the Real Enterprise Prize
OpenAI’s much-hyped GPT-5 launch on August 7, 2025, was stagecrafted as a Google-friendly moment. On screen, Gmail and Google Calendar integration showed ChatGPT pulling up emails and scheduling...
OpenAI’s GPT-5 Arrives in Visual Studio with Agentic Coding and Stricter Enterprise Controls
Microsoft and GitHub have begun a public preview rollout of OpenAI’s GPT-5 model inside Visual Studio through GitHub Copilot, delivering a significant leap in AI-assisted coding for paid...
Microsoft’s AI Coding Assistant Under Fire as GitHub Copilot Command Injection Chain Exposes Developers to Remote Code Execution
A zero-click AI command injection flaw in Microsoft 365 Copilot, tracked as CVE-2025-32711 and nicknamed EchoLeak, laid bare a dangerous new attack surface in June 2025. The vulnerability carried a...
GitHub CEO Calls Copilot Use in Performance Reviews 'Totally Fair Game' — But Warns Against 'Easily Gamed' Metrics
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has publicly defended an internal Microsoft memo that urged managers to include employees’ use of AI tools like Copilot in performance evaluations, calling the approach...
Microsoft Rolls Out GPT-5 Across Copilot, GitHub, and Azure with Smart Model Router
Microsoft activated OpenAI’s newly released GPT-5 across its entire Copilot and developer ecosystem on August 7, 2025 — the same day OpenAI went public with the model. The sweeping update puts...