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I can see how you may have missed Visual Studio Community Edition[0] in the recent flood of awesome MS announcements but it's been around for a while. Comments

• UnoriginalGuy 12y ago
  I can see how people missed the Community Edition, I cannot see how people don't know that the Express Edition has been free since literally 2005[0]. The only real difference between the free express editions and the community edition is the ability to install Visual Studio extensions, but broadly speaking it isn't that big of a change from Express 2013 for Windows Desktop. If people don't know that Visual Studio has had a free version for 10 years(!) then they have their head in the sand. But it seems a lot of these people are common, often making bad jokes about IE "sucking" (hint: it doesn't, even pre-Edge), Windows being insecure (hint: it isn't post-XP), and Microsoft being a monopoly (Microsoft's market influence is nothing like what it was in the 1990s, between OS X, iOS, and Android it has a lot of legitimate competition). [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio_Express http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio_Express