The migration followed a phased decommissioning of the Azure-based service:
Because environments were not automatically transferred, developers had to manually move their work: Visual Studio Codespaces is moving to GitHub
Visual Studio Codespaces officially retired on , consolidating its features into GitHub Codespaces . Microsoft made this move to simplify the developer experience by providing a native, "one-click" workflow directly within the GitHub platform where most code already resides. Key Transition Timeline The migration followed a phased decommissioning of the
The service became read-only; users could no longer create new plans or codespaces. The Visual Studio Codespaces portal was fully retired,
The Visual Studio Codespaces portal was fully retired, and all remaining data was deleted. Major Differences and Improvements
GitHub Codespaces initially defaults to the light GitHub theme, whereas the original service used the VS Code "Dark+" default.
Users can now launch environments directly from a GitHub repository's "Code" button instead of managing separate Azure plans and subscriptions.