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Visual Studio Code

2025-08-23T17:34:06Z

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Microsoft Visual Studio Code is an integrated development environment developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux, macOS and web browsers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Visual Studio Code - Wikipedia |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio_Code |url-status=live |website=Wikipedia}}</ref>

==Open Source==
The Source Code is available on GitHub under the MIT License.

However, the binaries published by Microsoft are proprietary under the "Microsoft Software License" and ships with closed-source modifications.

Alternate fully open source forks exists like [https://vscodium.com/ VS Codium].

==Incidents==

===Telemetry enabled by default===
Microsoft's proprietary build sends telemetry data by default<ref>{{Cite web |title=Telemetry |url=https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/configure/telemetry |url-status=live |website=VS Code Documentation}}</ref> which goes under [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/privacystatement Microsoft's Privacy Statement]. It has to be disabled manually by setting <code>telemetry.telemetryLevel</code> to <code>off</code> in the user settings.

===Blocking extensions for third-party forks===
...

==See also==

*[[Microsoft]]
*[[Microsoft's anticompetitive practices]]

==Sources==
[[Category:Microsoft]]
[[Category:Software]]
<references />

Visual Studio Code

2025-08-23T17:25:06Z

Cfp: Mention the MS Privacy Statement as well as VS Codium

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{{ProductCargo
|Company=Microsoft
|ReleaseYear=2015
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|Website=https://code.visualstudio.com
}}Microsoft Visual Studio Code is an integrated development environment developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux, macOS and web browsers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Visual Studio Code - Wikipedia |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio_Code |url-status=live |website=Wikipedia}}</ref>

==Open Source==
The Source Code is available on GitHub under the MIT License.

However, the binaries published by Microsoft are proprietary under the "Microsoft Software License" and ships with closed-source modifications.

Alternate fully open source forks exists like [https://vscodium.com/ VS Codium].

==Incidents==

===Telemetry enabled by default===
Microsoft's proprietary build sends telemetry data by default<ref>{{Cite web |title=Telemetry |url=https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/configure/telemetry |url-status=live |website=VS Code Documentation}}</ref> which goes under [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/privacystatement Microsoft's Privacy Statement]. It has to be disabled manually by setting <code>telemetry.telemetryLevel</code> to <code>off</code> in the user settings.

===Blocking extensions for third-party forks===
...

==See also==

*[[Microsoft]]
*[[Microsoft's anticompetitive practices]]

==Sources==
[[Category:Microsoft]]
[[Category:Software]]
<references />

Visual Studio Code

2025-08-23T17:19:51Z

Cfp: Add info to telemetry incident and reorder incidents by importance

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{{ProductCargo
|Company=Microsoft
|ReleaseYear=2015
|InProduction=Yes
|ArticleType=Product
|Category=Software
|Website=https://code.visualstudio.com
}}Microsoft Visual Studio Code is an integrated development environment developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux, macOS and web browsers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Visual Studio Code - Wikipedia |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio_Code |url-status=live |website=Wikipedia}}</ref>

==Open Source==
The Source Code is available on GitHub under the MIT License.

However, the binaries published by Microsoft are proprietary under the "Microsoft Software License" and ships with closed-source modifications.

==Incidents==

===Telemetry enabled by default===
Microsoft's proprietary build sends telemetry data by default<ref>{{Cite web |title=Telemetry |url=https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/configure/telemetry |url-status=live |website=VS Code Documentation}}</ref>. It has to be disabled manually by setting <code>telemetry.telemetryLevel</code> to <code>off</code> in the user settings.

===Blocking extensions for third-party forks===
...

==See also==

*[[Microsoft]]
*[[Microsoft's anticompetitive practices]]

==Sources==
[[Category:Microsoft]]
[[Category:Software]]
<references />

Visual Studio Code

2025-08-23T17:14:05Z

Cfp: Add "See also" section

Visual Studio Code

2025-08-23T14:11:56Z

Cfp: Add initial text

{{ProductCargo
|Company=Microsoft
|ReleaseYear=2015
|InProduction=Yes
|ArticleType=Product
|Category=Software
|Website=https://code.visualstudio.com
}}Microsoft Visual Studio Code is an integrated development environment developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux, macOS and web browsers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Visual Studio Code - Wikipedia |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio_Code |url-status=live |website=Wikipedia}}</ref>

== Open Source ==
The Source Code is available on GitHub under the MIT License.

However, the binaries published by Microsoft are proprietary under the "Microsoft Software License" and ships with closed-source modifications.

== Incidents ==

=== Blocking extensions for third-party forks ===
...
[[Category:Microsoft]]
[[Category:Software]]

Visual Studio Code

2025-08-23T14:03:14Z

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