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In July 2023 Microsoft announced the general availability of Dev Box, a cloud-based workstation optimized for developers. Think of it like a Windows 365 Cloud PC preconfigured with exactly what a developer needs to be productive. There are two parts…

GitHub platform: Compare the different plans How usage-based billing works About per-user pricing Connecting an Azure Subscription Information in the Product Terms License availability GitHub Copilot: Compare the different plans Prerequisites Setting up a Copilot Subscription Copilot user management Copilot…

GitHub Copilot is a tool that assists developers in writing code by offering suggestions – either via autocomplete as coding is taking place, or by responding with code to a natural language request. From December 2024 there are four flavors…

GitHub Advanced Security is a suite of security features designed to help developers identify and fix vulnerabilities in their code. GitHub Enterprise is a prerequisite to GitHub Advanced Security. Prior to August 1, 2024 customers could only purchase User SLs…

GitHub Enterprise is a license for GitHub that provides additional security, compliance and deployment options compared to the free version. A user licensed for GitHub Enterprise can access both GitHub Enterprise Cloud (GHEC) – the cloud-based version of GitHub Enterprise,…

GitHub is a platform for developers to collaborate on projects, manage code, and track changes, and is commonly used to host open-source software development projects. Developers use the platform via a Free, Team or Enterprise plan. GitHub as an organization…

An Azure DevOps Organization is a way of organizing groups of projects and, as such, it’s entirely possible that The Cobalt Bolt Company may have multiple Organizations. In this situation they need to make a choice as to how they…

In 2019 Microsoft changed the billing for Azure DevOps user licenses so that rather than completing a purchasing process for a license, you can add users to your Organization, assign them an access level (Stakeholder, Basic, or Basic + Test),…

Creating an Azure DevOps account is free. Within that account you have at least one Organization which is a mechanism for organizing and collecting groups of projects. An Organization could represent the whole company, a regional division, or a business…

Users with existing Visual Studio Standard or Cloud subscriptions are already licensed with either the Basic or Basic + Test plans as per the table below: When a Visual Studio subscriber signs in to Azure DevOps their license is automatically…