Microsoft is rolling out a slew of Visual Studio announcements meant to enable devs to create any and all kinds of apps on a variety of target platforms.
From All About Microsoft:
From All About Microsoft:
Visual Studio '14 (as it was codenamed) -- now officially christened Visual Studio 2015, is available in preview form as of today, as is the accompanying .NET 2015 preview.Microsoft delivers preview of Visual Studio 2015; new free Community version
Microsoft launched a first preview of Visual Studio 2015 in June 2014, noting at that Microsoft's goal was to release the product in calendar 2015.