Now this is pretty cool: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2016/01/20/introducing-the-windows-powershell-ise-preview.aspx. The PowerShell team are releasing what is effectively a beta version of the PowerShell ISE as a separate stand alone tool.
As I told my PowerShell class last week in Luxembourg, the ISE is probably the best default tool out there. It’s free, and built in. I do like some features of other ISEs, but paying for them, or having to load that ISE on mujltiple systems (vs just using the ISE) – it all makes the ISE for me the tool I use. Of course, the ISE addin model has enabled fantastic tools such as ISESteroids (which I use on my laptop and main workstation).
So having loaded it – I can’t see any difference. According to the blog post:
“this is intentional! This first release is meant to ensure that the new preview release model will work and that there are no major issues. After the initial release, we hope to ship a new release roughly once per month with new feature improvements and bug fixes. It will also be a lot easier to ship minor releases to address bugs that may appear due to new features.”
Wow – monthly updates! I am so liking this new MIcrosoft that no longer has to wait three years just to fix typos in help text! 
One small thing – if you are going to play with the new add-in model and want keep your real ISE and preview ISE profiles separate – you may need to use the variable $PsIse.IsPreviewRelease. Naturally, this will be true when you are using the Preview version!”"
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