On: Visual Studio Live Share

[pvg]

It would have been even better to include at least some idea of the expected release time or availability of the preview. It's hard to believe there is so much detail on the feature set, a big website to promote this and nobody at Microsoft has any certainty when this might be out.

[jonwchu → pvg]

We will be releasing a private preview of the feature early in 2018.

You can sign up for it here: http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/vsliveshare

[pvg → jonwchu]

Yes, I saw that but -

It doesn't mention a date.

It only says 'may'.

It asks for an email "For a Microsoft enabled work or school, personal Microsoft, or GitHub account", which is not particularly clear.

The form and data goes to some 'hubspot.com', rather than to Microsoft. It is default-blocked by ghostery as a tracker.

The feature looks really interesting, the promo site and the experience of using it is, to use the technical term, poopy.