It seems to me that there will be yearly releases to coincide with the yearly release of Windows so there will likely be a separate VS2014.

I don't get it either. There was already a VS2012, and changing to VS2013 for a few months seems like a decision driven by some weird force. Waiting to release for another 3 months would not have killed anyone.

They usually +1 the version every time there is a base windows release which is what Windows 8.1 actually is.

I'm not complaining as I get it on MSDN under my subscription.

How about going back to version numbers so it doesn't matter what year it came out like everyone else?

You should be happy they'll ship another one within 12 months! /sarcasm