Microsoft now giving away VS 2013

[David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 13 November 2014 at 00:58:41 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> This is good news for D! It lowers the bar for writing 64 bit D 
> code on Windows, and it also enables us to abandon support for 
> versions of VS prior to 2013.

Does it? Weren't the relevant parts available as part of VS 
Express and/or the Windows SDK? (Dreamspark Premium makes you 
rather oblivious in that regard.)

In any case, this is good news for Windows development indeed.

David