Microsoft always announces a slew of product and platform developments at its big Build developer conference, and this week's 2022 event is no exception, with these 10 interesting products/technologies hitting general availability (GA) status:

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Microsoft shipped the fifth preview of .NET 7 en route to a November debut, with improvements concerning generic math, observability and much more.

Microsoft now lets Visual Studio Code users financially sponsor authors of their favorite extensions.

Very opinionated tool is named after its creator, Brett Cannon, engineering manager for the Python extension who is also a member of the Python Steering Council.

Microsoft-owned GitHub announced it will sunset its popular Atom "hackable text editor" late this year as it concentrates on cloud-based dev tooling.

Microsoft updated its Quantum Development Kit (QDK) to support.NET 6 instead of .NET Core 3.1, and Visual Studio 2022 instead of VS 2019.

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