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Visual Studio Online is now Visual Studio Team Services

Jesse Houwing

Updated April 30, 2025
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In an attempt to remove the confusion whether Visual Studio Online is an IDE in the Cloud, Microsoft has decided to rename Visual Studio Online to:

Visual Studio Team Services

Which nicely abbreviates to VSTS, an acronym people who were using TFS in the 2005 and 2008 era may remember :). In remembrance of that great heritage:


Note to self: Here we go again, renaming all tags on the blog and trying to get the StackOverflow tag renamed *again*.

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Jesse Houwing

Jesse is a passionate trainer and coach, helping teams improve their productivity and quality all while trying to keep work fun. He is a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) through Scrum.org, Microsoft Certified Trainer and GitHub Accredited Trainer. Jesse regularly blogs and you'll find him on StackOverflow, he has received the Microsoft Community Contributor Award three years in a row and has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award since 2015. He loves espresso and dark chocolate, travels a lot and takes photos everywhere he goes.