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I've used this as an outsider to do some work with Microsoft and it's really slick. I wish the Visual Studio Online team would look a little harder at Github a

I've used this as an outsider to do some work with Microsoft and it's really slick. I wish the Visual Studio Online team would look a little harder at Github and steal more of its Issues experience, and have something more lightweight than the backlog monster they've got now. I think it's not uncommon for VSO users to keep a Github sync of their code so they can use GH for issues and day to day code and VSO for builds and deploys.

partiallypro 11y ago
I use VSO for the free private repos, but really it needs to be overhauled in a number of ways...a name change itself would go a long way. "Visual Studio Online" sounds like I'm actually going to be using an online version of VS like Office 365's online apps...but nope. It's a bit of a marketing nightmare. Even the guys from Microsoft were complaining about the naming making it hard to make people understand when I was at Build this year.
- johngossman 11y ago
  We just renamed it to "Visual Studio Team Services" last week. Yeah, everybody assumed it was an online version of Visual Studio. https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-team-services-vs.aspx https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-te...
  - partiallypro 11y ago
    Christ that name is still bad. They need to drop the Visual Studio part. You don't even need Visual Studio to use it.
  - junto 11y ago
    Isn't it just a version of TFS online using a SAAS billing concept? Wouldn't "TFS Online" be a better description if you want to stock with the Microsoft unimaginative naming policy? At least it says exactly what it is. My personal opinion is that Microsoft should just go with the internal names. They are more interesting and memorable for customers. They are often one word, rather than five. Visual Studio Team System Online 2020 Developer Edition.... Sorry, started snoring after 3 words. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_codenames https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_codenames

partiallypro 11y ago

I use VSO for the free private repos, but really it needs to be overhauled in a number of ways...a name change itself would go a long way. "Visual Studio Online" sounds like I'm actually going to be using an online version of VS like Office 365's online apps...but nope. It's a bit of a marketing nightmare. Even the guys from Microsoft were complaining about the naming making it hard to make people understand when I was at Build this year.

johngossman 11y ago
We just renamed it to "Visual Studio Team Services" last week. Yeah, everybody assumed it was an online version of Visual Studio. https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-team-services-vs.aspx https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-te...
- partiallypro 11y ago
  Christ that name is still bad. They need to drop the Visual Studio part. You don't even need Visual Studio to use it.
- junto 11y ago
  Isn't it just a version of TFS online using a SAAS billing concept? Wouldn't "TFS Online" be a better description if you want to stock with the Microsoft unimaginative naming policy? At least it says exactly what it is. My personal opinion is that Microsoft should just go with the internal names. They are more interesting and memorable for customers. They are often one word, rather than five. Visual Studio Team System Online 2020 Developer Edition.... Sorry, started snoring after 3 words. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_codenames https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_codenames