Visual Studio 2015 Preview is available!. The .NET framework is also losing its traditional version number -- the next release of .NET will be .NET 2015, not .NET 4.6 or 5.0. This will help clear up the confusion between compiler version, framework version, and CLR version.
Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition, which is a full-featured, free version of Visual Studio. No more "Express for Web" or "Express for Desktop"!