Microsoft is readying a first public preview of its next version of Visual Studio, called Visual Studio 2022, for "this summer." And the coming release, as had been rumored, will be going 64-bit.

With Visual Studio 2022, you'll finally be able to take advantage of all of your system RAM. Earlier versions of Visual Studio are 32-bit applications, thereby hobbling VS to a maximum of 2GiB RAM.

We don't have any specific details on what's different, just a promise that "Visual Studio 2022 will provide more and deeper integrations into your daily workflows, helping you to take the right ...