[haskaalo]

Will this require a subscription like Github Copilot?

[usr1106]

I guess there are 2 options:

  * surveillance capitalism: tracking and ads

  * paying

No idea where Microsoft will drive it, but they are not here for the common good.

[prepend]

The third option is that they are adding features to a laid product. I already pay a lot for enterprise GitHub and the search is really bad. This will help me not leave GitHub and motivate more people to signup and use it.

[mikro2nd]

You omitted the most likely scenario (3):

    * all of the above

[quickthrower2]

Or both of course (see Windows)

[tex0]

Running this kind of stuff costs serious money.

Of course they must see a way to make money with it in the long term.

Like they did with GitHub itself: as a data source for CoPilot ;)