India's IT services industry saw entry-level hiring collapse by 70% between fiscal years 2023 and 2024, as the country's four largest IT exporters reduced fresh graduate recruitment from 225,000 to 60,000. Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys shed a combined 38,000 employees in fiscal 2024, marking the sector's first workforce contraction in decades.
Studies indicate generative AI could automate 30-40% of junior developer and tester tasks. The proportion of employees under 30 at Infosys declined from 81% in 2010 to a projected 53% by fiscal 2025. India adds 8-9 million people to its workforce annually while the IT sector projects just 50,000 net new jobs per year from fiscal 2026-28. The graduate unemployment rate exceeds 13%, nearly triple the national average.
Nested virtualization allows you to run Hyper-V inside a VM, opening up incredible flexibility for testing complex infrastructure setups, demos, or learning environments, all without extra hardware.
First, ensure you’re running a Hyper-V host capable of nested virtualization and have the Windows Server 2025 VM on which you want to enable as a Hyper-V host ready.
To get started, open a PowerShell window on your Hyper-V host and execute:
Replace <Your-VM-Name> with the actual name of your VM.
This command configures Hyper-V to allow nested virtualization on the target VM.
Boot up the Windows Server 2025 VM that you want to configure as a Hyper-V host. In the VM, open Server Manager and attempt to install the Hyper-V role via Add Roles and Features. Most of the time, this should work right away. However in some cases you might hit an error stating:
“Hyper-V cannot be installed because virtualization support is not enabled in the BIOS.”
To resolve this error run an elevated PowerShell session inside the VM on which you want to enable Hyper-V and run the command:
bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto
This command ensures the Hyper-V hypervisor starts up correctly the next time you boot.
Restart your VM to apply the change. After the reboot, head back to Add Roles and Features and try installing Hyper-V again. This time, it should proceed smoothly without the BIOS virtualization error.
Once Hyper-V is installed, perform a final reboot if prompted. Open Hyper-V Manager inside your VM and you’re now ready to run test VMs in your nested environment!
In Part 2 of their series on Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Josh Anderson and Bob Galen dive into “Put First Things First” and “Think Win-Win.” Learn how modern leaders can prioritize with courage, create clarity, and build true win-win relationships.
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Mads is a Principal Product Manager on the Visual Studio team at Microsoft, where he champions developer productivity, performance, and extensibility. With a deep passion for streamlining the development experience, Mads has created dozens of widely used Visual Studio extensions — including Web Essentials, File Nesting, and Markdown Editor v2 — and maintains the Extensibility Essentials toolkit to empower other developers to build better tools. Mads brings over a decade of experience in web development on the Microsoft platform. He is also the founder of SchemaStore.org and a home automation enthusiast. Known for his engaging presentations and hands-on insights, Mads is a frequent speaker at developer conferences worldwide. He lives in the Pacific Northwest and his mission is simple: to make Visual Studio the most delightful development environment on the planet.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:38] More about Mads’ career journey at Microsoft.
[5:14] The new and improved Visual Studio.
[7:44] Backwards compatibility is a key feature — .NET solutions will still work across different Visual Studio versions.
[8:55] How Microsoft’s strategy differentiates between Visual Studio and VS Code.
[10:42] Visual Studio is the premier development environment for .NET and C# on Windows, offering the most comprehensive and optimized experience. While VS Code can handle .NET development, it’s not as feature-rich or performant as the full Visual Studio.
[12:58] Visual Studio has moved to a monthly release cadence to be more competitive with VS Code’s frequent updates.
[13:48] Deep AI integration in Visual Studio allows for context-aware assistance, including a new profiler agent that can help optimize code performance.
[23:53] Compilation performance is improved in Visual Studio 2026.
[26:35] The new profiler agent can be invoked through Copilot chat, running benchmarks and suggesting performance improvements scientifically.
[30:30] Developers can create custom MCP servers to integrate private systems and databases with AI tools using a project template.
[35:39] The AI coding agent in Visual Studio can work autonomously or with developer supervision, creating pull requests or working alongside the developer.
[39:11] Visual Studio’s Copilot can be used as a companion to bounce ideas off, helping with architectural decisions and new feature explorations.
In this Betatalks episode, Rick and Oscar talk with Christian Peeters, a principal Cloud Architect at Betabit and a certified Microsoft trainer. They discuss the intersection of technology, teaching, and continuous learning in software development. They explore emerging tools like vector databases and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), breaking down their complexity while stressing the importance of grounding AI models in real data to ensure trustworthiness.
About this episode, and Christian Peeters in particular: you can find Christian on LinkedIn.
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