The next major version of Microsoft’s flagship software development suite will be named Visual Studio 2019. And … we don’t really know much more about it.
“Our team is focused on introducing features that make every developer more productive,” Microsoft’s John Montgomery announced today. “Now, it’s time to start to look at what comes next: Visual Studio 2019.”
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Here’s what we do know so far.
With so little information, you may be wondering why Microsoft even announced the product. But Montgomery has a reason: Because Microsoft uses GitHub to develop Visual Studio, users are going to start seeing check-ins for the new product.
Given the release history, my guess is that Visual Studio 2019 will ship in late 2018. It seems like each release takes about 18 months, and Visual Studio 2017 first shipped in March 2017.