Microsoft launches Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 for ‘any developer working on any kind of application’

As promised, Microsoft today launched Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6. These new versions are aimed at developers targeting new platforms, including cross-platform mobile development (Android, iOS, and Windows) and game development (Unity, Unreal, Cocos, and so on).

This is easily Microsoft’s biggest development tools release yet. The goal, according to S. Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft, is “to bring the productivity of Visual Studio and .NET to any developer working on any kind of application.”