For example, the Basic tier with two cores and 4GB of RAM was reduced to to. Microsoft cut the prices of instances for Visual Studio Codespaces in Azure by more than half their previous prices. In May, along with the rebrand from Visual Studio Online, Microsoft reduced the price of VS Codespaces in the Microsoft Azure cloud. What's not clear yet is the pricing for GitHub Codespaces, which is currently in a private beta.

The shift means Visual Studio Codespaces users will need to move to GitHub Codespaces by February 2021, when the Visual Studio Codespaces offering on Azure will end. 'We believe that by consolidating the current Codespaces experiences into one, we can eliminate confusion, simplify the experience for everyone, and make more rapid progress to address customer feedback.' 'After the GitHub-native experience was released, we started hearing that the two distinct experiences were causing confusion amongst our users,' explains Allison Buchholtz-Au, a program manager for Visual Studio Online. Both products are online companions to Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code (VS Code).Īccording to Microsoft, the decision to move Visual Studio Codespaces to GitHub was to reduce confusion between the two near-identical products. Microsoft announced the rebranded product in May at Build 2020 alongside the new GitHub Codespaces, which itself is a take on VS Codespaces. SEE: Cheat sheet: Windows 10 PowerToys (free PDF) (TechRepublic) The announcement that Visual Studio Codespaces will be 'consolidating' into GitHub Codespaces isn't a surprise given the duplication between the two.

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