Microsoft made a big mistake lately with the packages of Visual Studio 2012 Express. There was no edition dedicated for plain-old Windows applications. Well after many complaints, the review their position and they have announced this week that they will package “Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop”.

The full announcement is available from http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/06/08/visual-studio-express-2012-for-windows-desktop.aspx