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VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 Release is near!

Yesterday at TechEd in Europe, Soma announced that the 2008 wave of developer products (VS, VSTS, TFS & .NET 3.5) will ship this month (November).  We've been saying for a long time now that it would be this year but, despite repeated requests, we've refused to be more specific :).  Now we've narrowed it down to the month.  Don't bother asking me the day or the week - because I can't say :)

It's going to be a great release and I'm thankful to all of you who helped test the Betas and gave us feedback along the way.  My next post on the subject should actually be announcing the release!

Brian

 

Published Tuesday, November 06, 2007 8:16 AM by bharry

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# re: VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 Release is near!

Tuesday, November 06, 2007 3:35 PM by Visual Studio 2008

There have been hints that it was going to be released November 5 (DevConnections were suppose to be among the first to get it).

# re: VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 Release is near!

Wednesday, November 07, 2007 1:53 AM by Klaus Enevoldsen

He, He, I won't ask you when VS2008 is released, but can you say if you guys have the next CTP of Rosario ready in the next few months? The stuff showed in the first public CTP was awesome and my manager wants the new work item types now! He was disappointed when I told him that it was not in VS2008. :-)

# re: VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 Release is near!

Wednesday, November 07, 2007 6:42 AM by bharry

Yes, we expect the next CTP of Rosario to be available before the end of the year.

Brian

# VSTS Links - 11/07/2007

Wednesday, November 07, 2007 7:34 AM by Team System News

Brian Harry on November '07 DevDiv Dogfood Statistics and VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 Release is near!. Robert Horvick...

# re: VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 Release is near!

Wednesday, November 07, 2007 9:23 AM by Vladimir Bougay

Brian,

My company is MS Certified Partner with ISV\Solutions competency and we use TFS 2005 internally for development. We would like to upgrade to TFS 2008 RTM (or even Beta 2), but the absence of information about MS policy for licensing VS 2008 product line for partners is stopping us from doing that. Do you have any information about this topic? It is likely that MS will give partners limited licenses for using VS 2008 product line when it will be released as it did with VS2005, but we need clear permission to make such move.

# re: VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 Release is near!

Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:19 PM by mcdonaldn@hotmail.com

Brian,

Thanks for the update!  We'll look forward to getting our hands on the product.

Is it safe to say that "TFS 1.5", "TFS Orcas", and "Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server" are analogous?  I'd like to settle a bet with a colleague of mine.

Mac

# re: VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 Release is near!

Friday, November 09, 2007 4:59 AM by Benjamin T

We are not interested of upgrading to 2008 until the TFS Server 2008 is released. When is it planned to be relased?

# re: VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 Release is near!

Friday, November 09, 2007 6:26 AM by bharry

It is being released this month.

Brian

# re: VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 Release is near!

Sunday, November 11, 2007 7:56 AM by bharry

TFS Orcas and VSTS 2008 Team Foundation Server are the same thing.  We don't have anything called TFS 1.5 :)  Personally, I refer to it as TFS 2.0 but some people have taken to referring to it as 1.5 because it's very compatible with 1.0 and isn't revolutionary but rather is a set of incremental improvements based on customer feedback.

Brian

# re: VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 Release is near!

Monday, November 12, 2007 8:02 AM by bharry

Vladimir,

I've asked someone on the marketing team to follow up on this but I see they haven't yet.  I will ask them again.

Brian

# re: VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 Release is near!

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 7:55 AM by Kevin Kelly - Brian's marketing guy :-)

I can answer Vladimir's general question...the licensing structure has not changed. So generally, whatever worked in VS2005 wlll apply in 2008. If you have Software Assurance (SA) with your current licenses you may upgrade without cost. I'm investigating more details of the partner programs and will post here if I find material information .

-kevin

# re: VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 Release is near!

Tuesday, November 27, 2007 3:44 AM by Amit Gera

Hello All

Queries

1 version of framework will be with it!

2 Backword compatibility with previous version of framework

# re: VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 Release is near!

Tuesday, November 27, 2007 3:44 AM by Amit Gera

Hello All

Queries

1 version of framework will be with it!

2 Backword compatibility with previous version of framework

# VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 リリース迫る!

Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:27 AM by bharry's WebLog

昨日、ヨーロッパで開かれた TechEd において、Soma が開発者向け製品 (VS、VSTS、TFS、.NET 3.5) の 2008 バージョンを今月 (11 月) 出荷すると発表しました。かなり前から今年中にリリースすると言い続け、何度も要望をいただきながら、時期を明確にすることはできませんでした。それが、やっと月まで言えるようになりました。でも、日付や週は聞かないでください。そこまでは言えないのです。

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