Microsoft is open sourcing Visual Studio (VS) Code, its light-weight code editor that works on Windows, Mac OS and Linux machines. Microsoft officials made the announcement on the first day of its two ...

Open source champion Eclipse Foundation is advancing the Open VSX Registry, a vendor-neutral, community-supported alternative to the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace. However, while Microsoft's ...

Gitpod has announced that it is offering a browser-based integrated development environment (IDE) via OpenVSCode Server, which is an open source implementation of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code. One ...

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Microsoft also announced two significant licensing changes around Visual Studio that will be a boon for partners. First, the company said it will soon initiate a shared-source licensing program for ...