The next versions of Visual Studio are here on Windows -- and Mac
Microsoft's Connect developer conference kicked off Wednesday with some expected news: The next versions of the Visual Studio IDE have arrived on Windows and Mac. (Yep, you read that right.)
After a set of leaks from MSDN Magazine on Monday, the company officially confirmed Wednesday that it's bestowing the Visual Studio brand on Xamarin Studio, a C# development environment for the Mac that the company acquired earlier this year when it bought the company of the same name. In addition, Microsoft's confusingly named Visual Studio "15" was officially renamed Visual Studio 2017 and given a release candidate at the show.
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