Table of contents
Collapse all- INTRODUCTION TO MICROSOFT LICENSING
- EA vs CSP
- AZURE HYBRID BENEFIT: WINDOWS SERVER
- AZURE HYBRID BENEFIT: SQL SERVER
- AZURE HYBRID BENEFIT: LINUX VMS
- FLEXIBLE VIRTUALIZATION BENEFIT
- LICENSE MOBILITY THROUGH SA
- LICENSING CSP-HOSTER SOLUTIONS
- LICENSE DEPLOYMENT OPTIONS
- LIFECYCLE POLICIES
- ESUs: WINDOWS 7
- ESUs: WINDOWS 10
- ESUs: WINDOWS SERVER 2008/2008 R2
- ESUs: WINDOWS SERVER 2012/2012 R2
- ESUs: WINDOWS SERVER 2016
- ESUs: SQL SERVER 2008/2008 R2
- ESUs: SQL SERVER 2012
- ESUs: SQL SERVER 2014
- ESUs: SQL SERVER 2016
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DEVELOPER TOOLS
- Visual Studio 2026
- Visual Studio 2022 Standard subscriptions
- Visual Studio 2022 Cloud subscriptions
- Azure DevOps Server
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Azure DevOps Server 2022
- Licensing Azure DevOps Server 2022
- Licensing users with Visual Studio subscriptions
- Licensing external users
- Licensing virtual machines
- Licensing a server farm
- Licensing for Disaster Recovery
- Downgrade and down-edition rights
- CAL equivalent licenses
- Licensing for the cloud
- Required infrastructure products
- Availability of Azure DevOps Server 2022 licenses
- Azure DevOps Services
- GitHub
- Microsoft Dev Box
- Dev/Test Subscriptions
- Resources: developer tools
- Microsoft resources: developer tools
- PRICING AND PROMOTIONS
- PARTNER CENTER ANNOUNCEMENTS
- LICENSING GUIDES GALLERY
- PRODUCT TERMS CAUTIONARY NOTES
GitHub
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. This is a nice video to see what GitHub can bring to developers:
Developers use the platform via a Free, Team or Enterprise plan.
GitHub as an organization was acquired by Microsoft in 2018 and operates as a subsidiary.