A: Maintaining the entire Chromium fork for an OS that is 22 years old would cost millions of dollars. Less than 0.01% of VS Code users are on XP (based on telemetry). It is a security risk—XP hasn’t received security updates since 2019 (Embedded POSReady hack excluded).

These are the specialized Microsoft Visual Studio, which is only available for Windows, and the cross-platform Visual Studio Code. Microsoft Visual C++ Sublime Text

Do not connect the Windows XP machine directly to the public internet without a firewall.

You can access the official installer by pasting this exact URL into your browser: https://visualstudio.com