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Microsoft has announced a new version of its Visual Studio software and they are taking a bold step and offering the software for free. There is, however, one large catch: this version of the software cannot be used for the development of enterprise applications.

Visual Studio Community 2013 is the latest addition to the Visual Studio family for Microsoft. This community edition is a free, full-featured development environment designed for students, open source contributors, small companies, startups and individual developers.

This edition includes all the features needed to create non-enterprise applications across desktop, devices, cloud, web and services, including coding productivity features, cross-platform mobile development tools for Windows, iOS and Android, and full extensibility with access to thousands of extensions. In short, this is the perfect application to get you started in the world of development or to use to create your next big app.

This is a big step for Microsoft by offering a free version of their premier development tool for noncommercial use. By allowing anyone to have access to the application, it will help bolster the Microsoft development community and that is likely the intended reason for making the tool free.

This version is available now and you can find more information about this version of Visual Studio at the link below.

Download: Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition

http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-has-a-new-free-version-of-visual-studio-now-available-for-download

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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:

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 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.

http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-delivers-preview-of-visual-studio-2015-new-free-community-version-7000035724/#ftag=RSS0966a21

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How does this community edition compare to the free Dreamspark student edition?

Q: How does Visual Studio Community 2013 compare to other Visual Studio editions?

A: Visual Studio Community 2013 includes all the great functionality of Visual Studio Professional 2013, designed and optimized for individual developers, students, open source contributors, and small teams.

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Community edition is very good actually. Switched from express to this :)

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MS is scared of losing its dev community. hehehe! :lol:

True!

Now no need to pay for profesional version! :lol: :tehe:

Sry, Who pays here on nsane! :-)

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Great! I'm still looking for pro and premium though.

I know these are already available, but I don't want to kill my share ratio.

Microsoft Visual Studio Premium 2013 with Update 4 ISO-TBE

Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 with Update 4 ISO-TBE

MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO PROFESSIONAL 2013 WITH UPDATE 4-DVTiSO

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I found these:

Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 with Update 4 (x86) - DVD (English):7108 MB

SHA1:62C2F1500924E7B1402B6FCB9350AE9E0AF444F9

http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/E/0/1E0AA8D0-F5D4-45A8-9CA6-D9DC8A54DE3E/vs2013.4_ult_enu.iso

Visual Studio Professional 2013 with Update 4 (x86) - DVD (English):7060 MB

SHA1:4BB389DF5F3BB4FCE946E7BA07B70C68A9627B1D

http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/3/C/F3C109C2-8442-477A-A442-04A175870137/vs2013.4_pro_enu.iso

Visual Studio Premium 2013 with Update 4 (x86) - DVD (English):7091 MB

SHA1:5D6B9AFC9D3151DCBEBD06114078A4013277ED23

http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/D/3/0D316453-32A1-4042-A5B6-30B14A4C24AA/vs2013.4_prem_enu.iso

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 with Update 4 (x86 and x64) - DVD (English):2518 MB

SHA1:402E7D8685D8C19A555E0745E547E6B488FA0DE3

http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/1/1/31149D54-CE97-4403-99E2-EBBEB790B718/vs2013.4_tfs_enu.iso
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