It seems that the new Microsoft is discovering that offer free stuff is not always lose money, the freemium model exists and that change image is not that difficult.Gradually we are seeing as the company adapts to changing times, and now do it with a free version of Visual Studio for small teams.
In the company blog discussed the details while talking about some numbers: 1,800 million installs .NET and over 7 billion "downloads" from Visual Studio 2013 in the last year.
The new free version of Visual Studio Community 2013, available here , and replaces the very limited Visual Studio Express (which disappears shortly), giving access to more than 1,500 extensions offered by the platform. It is a complete version created for computers less than 5 people, so it can be used in large enterprise environments.
They also announce that provide the code for the .NET platform to the server, which will help in the implementation of the system both Mac and Linux.
In the same article discussed the new features of Visual Studio 2015, ideal for development of applications compatible with phones, and visual studio 2013 upgrade for current users.
