微软正计划对其旗舰产品Visual Studio进行重大升级，旨在整合更多人工智能功能，以应对日益激烈的AI编码工具市场竞争。此次升级是对包括Amazon Kiro和Cursor在内的新兴AI驱动型开发工具的回应。Visual Studio作为一款功能强大的付费集成开发环境（IDE），旨在帮助开发者更高效地编写、调试、编辑和部署代码。新版本将包含大量AI特性，以提升开发体验和效率。虽然具体发布时间未定，但微软已开始内部测试，并暗示将在夏末公布更多细节。此次升级标志着微软在AI领域的持续投入，以期在开发者工具市场保持领先地位。

💡 **AI驱动的重大升级：** 微软正为Visual Studio进行重大更新，大幅增加AI功能，以应对来自Amazon Kiro和Cursor等AI驱动型竞争对手的挑战。这表明微软正积极回应市场变化，将AI能力深度整合到其核心开发者工具中。

🚀 **增强开发者效率：** Visual Studio作为一款付费IDE，一直致力于为开发者提供更全面的工具集。此次AI功能的加入，旨在进一步提升开发者编写、调试、编辑和部署代码的效率，帮助他们管理复杂的项目，并可能通过AI辅助生成代码，缩短开发周期。

🔄 **应对市场竞争：** 微软此举也是对AI编码工具领域快速发展的市场格局的战略性回应。GitHub Copilot的市场份额受到Cursor等工具的挑战，同时Amazon推出了自己的IDE Kiro，这些都促使微软加快Visual Studio的AI化进程，以巩固其在开发者工具市场的领导地位。

🗓️ **发布时间与测试进展：** 尽管微软尚未公布Visual Studio 18的正式发布时间表，但已透露将在夏末公布更多信息。目前，公司内部已启动“早期试用”（dogfooding）阶段，由内部技术员工测试新产品，为正式发布做准备。

Microsoft is planning a big upgrade to Visual Studio.The move may be a response to intense competition for AI coding tools.The new Visual Studio will be packed with AI features as Microsoft tries to head off rivals.

Microsoft is working on a major upgrade of its flagship software-development product Visual Studio, a sign the tech giant is responding to intense competition from new AI coding tools, according to an internal memo viewed by Business Insider.

Microsoft has a free, open-source code editor called VS Code that rivals such as Amazon and Windsurf have used to build competing developer tools.

Visual Studio, meanwhile, is a paid Integrated Development Environment, or IDE, that offers more features to help developers write, debug, edit, and deploy code — and manage entire projects.

Jay Parikh is the relatively new executive who leads Microsoft's CoreAI organization, which oversees developer tools including Visual Studio. Parikh emailed his team in April, describing plans for the "next major release" of the product, which he called "Visual Studio 18." Business Insider viewed a copy of the memo.

The last major upgrade to Visual Studio was released in 2021. Microsoft has been working on this new version for a while already. The company started "early dogfooding," where tech employees test their own products, to prepare for a general release, according to the memo.

Parikh didn't disclose a timeline for the release, but a Microsoft blog earlier this year dropped a hint. "Stay tuned for more details later this summer about what's coming next for Visual Studio," the post stated.

The new Visual Studio will be packed with AI features, partly in response to rival services that are more AI-focused, according to a person familiar with the plans.

Microsoft's AI coding assistant, GitHub Copilot, recently lost share in a key part of the developer market to Cursor, according to data cited in recent note from Barclays.

Amazon just launched its own IDE called Kiro. Business Insider reported earlier this year that Amazon designed Kiro to tap into AI agents to analyze user prompts and existing data, generating code in "near real-time."

Microsoft said it provides regular updates to the current version of Visual Studio, which is version 17 (not version 18 that Parikh described in his memo).

For example, in July, the company rolled out a revamp, 17.14.9, that added new AI features, such as support for Anthropic's latest models and updates to Model Context Protocol, or MCP, an industry standard that helps models connect with external data sources.

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