Visual Studio 2008 to ship in 2007 :-)
Soma made the announcement at TechED Europe yesterday that VS08 should be available by the end of the month. You can find more in his blog post here. At TechED Africa, Brian Harry delivered a session on how Microsoft uses TFS and the process methods we now follow viz feature crews. In that session, he mentioned how going down this route has helped with shipping early and better build quality.
Some other news from TechED Europe.
- We are opening the VSIP program a bit so that partners can now target other platforms.
- We announced a Sync Framework - for which the first CTP is now available. You can more information at http://blogs.msdn.com/synchronizer/archive/2007/11/05/big-new-microsoft-sync-framework-is-out.aspx
- The Popfly Explorer Beta was announced. You can get it from http://www.popfly.ms/Overview/Explorer.aspx. I gotta spend some time on Popfly.
- We are making available Software + Services blueprints.