The Visual Studio Code product itself ships under a standard Microsoft product license, as it has a small percentage of Microsoft-specific customizations. It’s free despite the commercial license.

Microsoft has introduced Visual Studio Code for Education, a new computer science instruction platform that takes students beyond beginner coding and teaches them tools used by professional developers ...

Believe it or not you can use Microsoft's Visual Studio Code from your web browser, or at least, versions of it.

Visual Studio Code has emerged as the go-to remote development tool in many areas far outside the Microsoft-centric developer ecosystem.

Microsoft has taken Visual Studio Code to the browser with the new VS Code for the Web, a lightweight version of the super-popular code editor that runs fully online.