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Talk:Mozilla

2026-03-22T21:43:38Z

Noewaeda: /* Changes to the "Alternatives" section */ new section

== Changes to the "Alternatives" section ==

[[Mozilla#Alternatives|This section]] seems a bit out of place for this page, and contains some similar information to the [[Firefox]] article.

Maybe it could be moved to that article instead? [[User:Noewaeda|Noewaeda]] ([[User talk:Noewaeda|talk]]) 21:43, 22 March 2026 (UTC)

Visual Studio Code

2026-02-05T04:07:29Z

Noewaeda: Fix typo

{{Stub}}
{{ProductCargo
|Company=Microsoft
|ReleaseYear=2015
|InProduction=Yes
|ArticleType=Product
|Category=Software
|Website=https://code.visualstudio.com
|Logo=Visual Studio Code logo.svg}}

'''[[wikipedia:Visual Studio Code|Visual Studio Code]]''' is an integrated development environment developed by [[Microsoft]] for [[Windows]], Linux, macOS and web browsers.

==Consumer impact summary==
{{Ph-C-CIS}}

===Freedom===
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].

===Market Control===
Visual Studio Code (Also known as VS Code) is widely used upon. with over 50 million developers using it as of May 15th, 2025<ref>https://developer.microsoft.com/blog/celebrating-50-million-developers-the-journey-of-visual-studio-and-visual-studio-code</ref>, But the control varies, Due to the software being open-source, Users may switch to other forks, such as previously mentioned '[https://vscodium.com/ VS Codium]', If they are not happy with Visual Studio Code's features.

==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 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251219092557/https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/configure/telemetry |archive-date=19 Dec 2025 |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===
In April 2025, Microsoft pushed an update to the "C/C++" extension for Visual Studio Code that introduced functionality to entirely disable the extension under the condition that it was running inside of a third-party fork of the editor<ref>{{Cite news |last=Claburn |first=Thomas |date=2025-04-24 |title=Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks |url=https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/24/microsoft_vs_code_subtracts_cc_extension/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.ph/8SLdN |archive-date=25 Apr 2025 |work=The Register}}</ref>, displaying an error that says:

<span lang="en" dir="ltr">"The C/C++ extension may be used only with Microsoft Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, Visual Studio Code, Azure DevOps, Team Foundation Server, and successor Microsoft products and services to develop and test your applications."</span><ref>{{Cite web |title=VSCodium issues |url=https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/issues/2300 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250405162831/https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/issues/2300 |archive-date=5 Apr 2025 |website="Microsoft C/C++ Extension appears to no longer support unofficial forks of VS Code"}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Cursor issues |url=https://github.com/cursor/cursor/issues/2976 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250625115317/https://github.com/cursor/cursor/issues/2976 |archive-date=25 Jun 2025 |website="Has the VSCode C/C++ Extension been blocked?"}}</ref>

==See also==

*

==References==
<references />
[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]

Visual Studio Code

2025-11-06T04:32:09Z

Noewaeda: Expand the "Blocking extensions for third-party forks" section.

{{Stub}}
{{ProductCargo
|Company=Microsoft
|ReleaseYear=2015
|InProduction=Yes
|ArticleType=Product
|Category=Software
|Website=https://code.visualstudio.com
|Logo=Visual-studio-code.png}}

'''[[wikipedia:Visual Studio Code|Visual Studio Code]]''' is an integrated development environment developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux, macOS and web browsers.

==Consumer impact summary==
{{Ph-C-CIS}}
====Freedom====
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===
In April 2025, Microsoft pushed an update to the "C/C++" extension for Visual Studio Code that introduced functionality to entirely disable the extension under the condition that it was running inside of a third-party fork of the editor<ref>{{Cite news |last=Claburn |first=Thomas |date=2025-04-24 |title=Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks |url=https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/24/microsoft_vs_code_subtracts_cc_extension/ |url-status=live |work=The Register}}</ref>, displaying an error that says:

<span lang="en" dir="ltr">"The C/C++ extension may be used only with Microsoft Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, Visual Studio Code, Azure DevOps, Team Foundation Server, and successor Microsoft products and services to develop and test your applications."</span><ref>{{Cite web |title=VSCodium issues |url=https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/issues/2300 |website="Microsoft C/C++ Extension appears to no longer support unofficial forks of VS Code"}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Cursor issues |url=https://github.com/cursor/cursor/issues/2976 |website="Has the VSCode C/C++ Extension been blocked?"}}</ref>

==See also==

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

==References==
<references />
[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]