Microsoft today previewed some new features for its Dev Box coding-machine-as-a-service offering. While Dev Box appears to provide similar services to GitHub Codespaces.

What's not clear yet is the pricing for GitHub Codespaces, which is currently in a private beta. In May, along with the rebrand from Visual Studio Online, Microsoft reduced the price of VS ...

GitHub Codespaces gives you a fully-featured cloud-hosted dev environment that spins up in seconds, directly within GitHub, so you can start contributing to a project right away.” ...

Importantly, practicing what it preaches, GitHub also announced that the company’s engineering team has moved away from its macOS -centric development model on to Codespaces.