Microsoft is continuing to bang the AI drum with its developer tools, with its latest announcement that VS Code is shipping as part of the Anaconda Python distribution.

Anaconda, Inc., a Python data science platform provider, is partnering with Microsoft to embed Anaconda into Azure Machine Learning, Visual Studio and SQL Server to deliver data insights in real time.

Hallmarks of Anaconda's new Enterprise release include deployment of Python-generated assets to executives and analysts, and Python machine learning models to mainstream developers.

Anaconda users can install and launch VS Code from its Navigator desktop interface, which also configures the code editor to use the appropriate interpreter for a preferred development environment.

A new offering from the creator of a Python distribution for data science uses Microsoft Excel as a front end for Jupyter notebooks and other data-centric apps ...