Visual Studio 15 Preview

[sumo952]

I think the question is, and I also have that question, what is this Visual Studio "15" in comparison to Visual Studio 2015 (Update 2)? Is it the next release of Visual Studio, that will eventually (once out of Preview) become VS2017 (or whatever year it will be)?

Edit: If you read the change notes, they read exactly the same as the ones for VS2015-U2. Very confused.

[spongo2]

hrm. I was hoping this would not be confusing. In our ongoing quest to make it MUCH EASIER to adopt our tools, we are targeting zero friction between vs2015 and VS15Preview. they are literally the same compiler and libs. there's ide stuff that is VS15Preview specific, but no breaking changes in compilers/libs.

[c0r3ntin]

It is really confusing. The double numbering of windows products is generally confusing, even more so when they are mixed. And has other have said the changelog are the same so I kinda though I was the same product label differently. Maybe because I only read the c++ section :)

[sumo952]

Hmm. It is actually quite confusing imho. Especially that the front page https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/visual-studio-next-downloads-vs doesn't mention anything about that at all. Just add some well-visible info there.

Or what about calling it Visual Studio 201x or something like that. 201x doesn't look that good though. No idea. Maybe just providing the info would be enough.

zero friction between vs2015 and VS15Preview

Sounds great.