AdvertisementĪccordingly, the new version does bring a number of bits and pieces that haven't been added to 2017. A new major version is also a good time to make larger user interface changes, and indeed, some of the first things that will be noticed on installing Visual Studio 2019 are the new welcome screen, a new interface for creating projects, and a new title bar that incorporates both the application's menu and a revamped search feature for finding features within the IDE.
To that end, Visual Studio 2019 (finally) drops Windows XP support for C++ projects you'll have to use the old Visual Studio 2017 C++ compiler if you want to continue targeting the long-obsolete operating system. The reasons for sticking to the old way of releasing? There are customers who buy perpetual licenses, and a new major version provides an easy opportunity to make certain breaking changes, such as dropping support for old platforms or making certain major changes to the C++ library. With this development process in place, one wonders why we'd bother with "Visual Studio 2019" at all let's just have "Visual Studio" and keep on updating it forever.
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Indeed, this iterative, incremental model is the one that Microsoft is pushing (and using) for services such as Azure DevOps and is comparable to the continuous development we see for Office 365, which is updated monthly, and the free and open source Visual Studio Code, which also has monthly iterations.
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