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Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

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Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

#21

Tried -- failed. Login through MS, then get screen that it's unavailable. Come on, MS.

"(if this link isn’t live yet, give it a few more minutes and then try again)."

It's literally right after the link. What did you expect? It's a breaking story, the product was just announced and in the conference it was announced as available later today.

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

#22
post #16

A real question, not for flaming but just for understand: is free as in beer or in freedom? I mean, is it also open-source?

When most companies say free they mean free of charge, if they want to say open source they say open source, because that’s the term the world understands. Basically only the FSF uses free to mean Free Software.

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

#23
I'm getting a weird error:

    AADSTS50020: User account 'me@captnemo.in' from external identity provider 'live.com' is not supported for application 'caf83767-0da8-454f-ae8d-77f63deaf359'. The account needs to be added as an external user in the tenant. Please sign out and sign in again with an Azure Active Directory user account.
I'm guessing only proper microsoft accounts are allowed? (@outlook.com, @live.com etc). I understand it might not be live yet, but I don't get the "unavailable yet" error.

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

#25

Tried -- failed. Login through MS, then get screen that it's unavailable. Come on, MS.

It is a bit strange that Microsoft keeps wanting me to log in for things like this. I'm not sure.

If any Microsoft engineers happen to be scanning this thread, it correctly redirected me to our organizations login page for me to use my standard credentials, but failed after with a generic Bad Request error.

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

#27

Tried -- failed. Login through MS, then get screen that it's unavailable. Come on, MS.

"(if this link isn’t live yet, give it a few more minutes and then try again)." It's literally right after the link. What did you expect? It's a breaking story, the product was just announced and in the conference it was announced as available later today.

I'm not accustomed to logging into a link that's "not yet live."

FWIW, the response I get is: Sorry, but we're having trouble signing you in. We received a bad request.

(I'm logged in with the same account through other services.)

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

#28
post #3

Uninstalling Sublime Text 3...

This was posted 10 minutes ago and you commented 5 minutes ago. Given I tried to download it and it failed with some weird error message on their site (not to mention registration walls suck) the logical conclusion is that you are not serious about your comment. That then begs the question why you would post such a comment. Looking at your submission history, one could easily assume you work for Microsoft.

If that is the case, I would suggest you guys grow a brain and remove the registration wall. It's 2015.

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

#29
post #16

A real question, not for flaming but just for understand: is free as in beer or in freedom? I mean, is it also open-source?

Looks like it's just free as in beer for now. Who knows what will happen a few months/years from now when it doesn't have a huge userbase and Microsoft isn't interested in continuing to support it alone.

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

#30

I'm getting a weird error: AADSTS50020: User account 'me@captnemo.in' from external identity provider 'live.com' is not supported for application 'caf83767-0da8-454f-ae8d-77f63deaf359'. The account needs to be added as an external user in the tenant. Please sign out and sign in again with an Azure Active Directory user account. I'm guessing only proper microsoft accounts are allowed? (@outlook.com, @live.com etc). I…

In the keynote, it was announced as available "later today". They probably haven't flipped the switch yet.
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