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Segundo, privacidad en los datos personales [visualstudio.com] y cruzado de datos con otras aplicaciones Microsoft. Entre otros:

Usage data. We collect information about how you interact with our products and services. This includes information about how you use the products and services, such as the features you use, the web pages you visit, and the search terms you enter. It includes information about the device you use with the services, including IP address, device identifiers, regional and language settings, and information about the network, operating system, browser or other software you use to connect to the services. And it also includes information about the performance of the product or service and any errors or problems you experience with them. In order to create a richer picture of your product usage, we will correlate usage data across other Microsoft services, like Visual Studio Online. Automatically collected data. We automatically collect limited information about the set-up and installation of Visual Studio, including information about the version and license status of Visual Studio, the operating system of the device, the CPU architecture of the operating system, data identifying causes of product crashes and data regarding the success or failure of the installation of the software.

Por último, habría que estudiar la interacción de este editor de código con el servicio Visual Studio Online [visualstudio.com], que viene a ser como un GitHub con esteroides: repositorios y granja de compilación en la nube.

Más opiniones en en español [barrapunto.com] y en inglés [slashdot.org].

Microsoft Visual Studio Code, as opposed to the original Visual Studio for Windows, is not a complete integrated development environment containing an its own compiler and typical tools of this kind of development environments but it's simply a code editor like sublimetext, atom, kate or brackets.