In fact, many conferences were devoted to topics such as cross-browser, which really meant that a Web application would work on any version of Internet Explorer. Visual Studio 2015 is no exception to that history, but this release marks a huge departure from a long-held truth: Microsoft wanted you to build applications for Windows.

Going back to the 1990s when developers were largely creating client-server applications on Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, Microsoft has worked hard to make it easy for developers to automate business processes and to make useful applications for customers and management. Microsoft has always been very good at providing world-class developer tooling. In addition to supporting past development, Visual Studio 2015 makes giant leaps forward in capabilities and integration. This version retains fantastic backward-compatibility to the majority of development technologies and frameworks that have come before it, since. Microsoft just released version 14 of its flagship Integrated Development Environment (IDE), Visual Studio 2015.