With Visual Studio 2013, we have what's new information,product videos and announcements on start page. The start page layout has been well designed with 2013 IDE version. In order to display the content in respective sections, the sources are
In the below images. we will see the start pages of Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013 versions so that we can observe the difference.
Fig: visual studio 2013 start page
Fig: visual studio 2012 start page
Note: There is an option "Minimize what's new information" in news section. This options moves the news section after Announcements.