Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition announced

Today in Orlando, Microsoft announced a new edition of Visual studio, Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition. This new edition was designed specifically for the needs of Visual Basic 6.0 and Web developers and contains much of the simplicity of the Express products that were announced at TechEd Europe. Standard Edition therefore becomes the entry point for professional development on the .NET Framework. Hopefully, we'll see the betas of this before long.