Microsoft for Developers
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Software is a team sport: Building the future of software development together
At Microsoft, we strive to build the world’s most beloved developer tools and services. Our vision is to empower every developer to transform their concepts into reality, from idea to code to cloud, at lightning speed. The Visual Studio family, Azure, GitHub, and GitHub Copilot empower developers around the world to do just that. Since GitHub joined Microsoft in 2018, we’ve been working hard to bring our tools and services together to deliver a productive and delightful experience for developers so they can focus on driving innovation through their code. We started by integrating features and services develope...
Welcome to the Microsoft for Developers blog
Did you know that developers use an average of 16 tools per day? A typical developer works across their code editor, a terminal, several command-line tools and web portals – not to mention all the SDKs and packages they take a dependency on in their code. Sometimes it can be challenging to figure out how to make it all work together. If you’re tasked with providing guidance and common infrastructure for other developers on your team, you may need to wrestle with many more tools and services. Whether you use the Visual Studio family of IDEs, GitHub, Azure DevOps or build apps for Azure, Windows, M365, Teams or ...