Why does my personal account have VS Enterprise in Azure DevOps Services

Question

This account is my personal Microsoft account. Several years ago, I created an Azure DevOps Services (AzDO) (back when it was called Visual Studio Team Services, and before that Visual Studio Online), so I could commit source code, do some project management, etc. All using the free version (limited build time per month, no parallel execution of build agents, etc.) This has worked well for 10 years or so. While using this I've used various versions of Visual Studio, specifically Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition and Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition.

At work I use my work email account, with an associated Visual Studio Enterprise license. Obviously with a different email address than the one I'm using to write this post.

Visual Studio allows you to use more than one account within it. I've done this, because at times I needed to see some code I'd committed to my personal AzDO account. Then when I need to work on code at work, I'd switch accounts back to my work account, then go about my business writing code for work.

Today I got into my AzDO account associated with my personal MIcrosoft account and email address. I looked at my organization settings, because I wanted to see what the permissions were for someone else, I'd sent an invitation to in one of my repos. I was incredibly surprised to see that instead of having this account identified with Visual Studio Community Edition, it was associated with Visual Studio Enterprise! Why is that? It doesn't make sense to me. I do not have an Enterprise subscription with Visual Studio or MSDN. For home and in my personal life I work with the Community Edition of Visual Studio and AzDO.

So, why do I see "Visual Studio Enterprise" for my personal account under the Access Level in the Organization Settings, for my personal AzDO?

Answer 1

The product group for Azure DevOps / TFS actively monitors questions over at
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/report?space=21&entry=problem
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/report?space=22&entry=problem
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/support/devops/

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