David Ramel

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Editor-in-Chief at Visual Studio Magazine

Writer, Editor (all opinions my own, not my employer)

Articles

Mapping OpenAI's Full AI Suite After Codex CLI Debut

1 week ago | visualstudiomagazine.com | David Ramel

In-Depth With OpenAI's recent introduction of Codex CLI, the company hearkens us back to 2021 when its Codex AI model powered the tool that helped jump-start the GenAI revolution: GitHub Copilot. Of course, you probably couldn't pry Copilot out of the hands of Visual Studio Magazine readers nowadays, but yet another groundbreaking AI offering adds more clutter to the rapidly evolving scene.
Nerdio Aims To Simplify (and AI-ify) Windows 365 Management

1 week ago | rcpmag.com | David Ramel

News Longtime Microsoft partner Nerdio is expanding its capabilities for managing Windows 365 with the launch of Nerdio Manager for Enterprise 7.0. This latest release, announced earlier this month, brings new planning, automation and cost-saving features, along with deeper integration with Microsoft Intune, aimed at simplifying the full cloud desktop lifecycle.
You Can Now Apply for Early-Stage AI Agent 'Computer Use' in Copilot Studio

1 week ago | visualstudiomagazine.com | David Ramel

News On the way to autonomous AI, Microsoft announced an early access research preview of "computer use" for Copilot Studio wherein AI agents visually interact with any app or website -- clicking, typing, and navigating like a human. Copilot Studio is Microsoft's low-code tool for building, customizing, and deploying AI-powered agents that automate tasks across apps and workflows.
AWS Tops AI Skills Ranking in Stanford Report

1 week ago | awsinsider.net | David Ramel

News The Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud fared well in the new AI Index Report from the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). In fact, AWS topped one ranking that identified the most defining skills for tech professionals on LinkedIn, and also ranked highly in a separate list of the top 10 specialized skills cited in U.S. AI job postings.
Report: Infrastructure Is the Missing Piece in Gen AI Strategy

1 week ago | thejournal.com | David Ramel

While generative AI has become central to digital transformation strategies, a new report from Google Cloud reveals most organizations aren't yet equipped to support it at scale. The report suggests that success hinges not on tech alone, but on the strength of the underlying infrastructure, which needs to be secure, scalable, and ready for real-world complexity. From hybrid cloud to edge deployments, infrastructure has emerged as the missing piece in the gen AI puzzle, Google asserted.
KaleidioSearch Embeds dtSearch Engine

1 week ago | visualstudiomagazine.com | David Ramel

News dtSearch, a specialist in enterprise and developer text retrieval software and document filters, announced it's now powering an upgrade to KaleidoSearch from Contegra Systems. While normally this wouldn't be of much importance to readers of Visual Studio Magazine, dtSearch is a perennial winner in our Reader's Choice Awards program, which as its name suggests ranks dozens of products as voted on by our readers.
.NET 10 Preview 3 Adds Native Container Publishing

1 week ago | visualstudiomagazine.com | David Ramel

News Microsoft' third preview of .NET 10 focuses on performance, developer ergonomics, and modern cloud-native patterns. While Preview 3 comes with a wide array of incremental improvements across performance, libraries, CLI tooling, ASP.NET Core/Blazor and more, it doesn't introduce any major new features. The cloud-native camp, however, sees improvements to containerization functionality, including the ability to natively create container images in console apps.
Trending Model Context Protocol for AI Agents Gets C# SDK

1 week ago | visualstudiomagazine.com | David Ramel

News The Model Context Protocol (MCP) for agentic AI has gained much traction since being introduced by Anthropic last November, and now it has a C# SDK. The MCP is a standard for integrating large language models (LLMs) with external tools and data sources -- or in other words, enabling AI agents to go and do things on their own, interacting with UIs to book flights and so on.
Top 3 App Security Threats, Hybrid Cloud Edition

1 week ago | virtualizationreview.com | David Ramel

News Brien Posey, a well-known freelance technology author and 22-time Microsoft MVP, recently explained how enterprises can protect themselves against application security threats in hybrid cloud environments.
As Agentic AI Explodes, Microsoft Announces MS365 Copilot Agent Debugging

2 weeks ago | visualstudiomagazine.com | David Ramel

News Microsoft announced agent debugging functionality for Microsoft 365 Copilot directly from the AI tool itself, no Visual Studio 2022 or Visual Studio Code needed. Agentic AI is dominating AI these days, but it didn't allow for easy debugging. Debugging AI agents is challenging due to their unpredictable behavior, reliance on external inputs, and limited visibility into their decision-making processes.