The Build 2026 keynote was overly-long, in keeping with tradition. But there was some good news for Windows developers too.

It was a good idea on paper.

The tech giant is scaling back use of Anthropic’s AI coding assistant inside key engineering teams as rising enterprise AI costs force companies to rethink large-scale deployments. Microsoft is ...

VS Code set a bar others haven't cleared.

I understand that Microsoft is planning to remove most of its Claude Code licenses and push many of its developers to use ...

The developer of an unauthroized Mac version of NotePad++ says he'll change the name to Nextpad++ for Mac to avoid creating confusion.

I’m not a devoted user of the app, but I was aware of its history, which is why I was surprised to see news of a “Notepad++ for Mac” port making the rounds last week, as though it were a port of the ...

Notepad++ creator Don Ho said the macOS version of the popular Windows code editor is fake and using the Notepad++ trademark without permission. The unofficial Notepad++ app for macOS In a blog post, ...

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