VSTS/TFS2010 Beta 2 coming “real soon” and will have a “Go Live” license (i.e. Now’s the time to start getting ready…)

Brian Keller: Technical Evangelist for Team System - Get ready to “go live” with Team Foundation Server 2010 beta 2!

“Beta 2 of Team Foundation Server 2010 is going to be available very soon - unfortunately that’s all that the marketing team will let me tell you right now. :-) But the best news is that beta 2 of Team Foundation Server 2010 will have a “go live” license, meaning that you can use it for your day-to-day application building (unlike beta 1 which was limited to just evaluation, tire kicking, learning the new features, etc.) …

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But in preparation for beta 2, there are some things that you can be doing now in order to take advantage of the release as soon as it’s available for download. The Team Foundation Server product team has put together some great guidance which can give you a checklist of things to do as you prepare to take advantage of beta 2. This guidance is available as an overview in a PowerPoint deck, or in greater detail in the Word document. I’ve uploaded both of them for you to check out.

…” [GD: Click through for the links]

“Very soon” IMO means a week or two’ish. No, I’ve not heard anything more that what’s in Brian’s post, but based on past “very soon’s” I really think we just a few weeks away (and that it’s been baking since even before B1 was released, yada, yada…). In short, I’m thinking well before PDC09. Which is good, since that means we’ll have a ton of fully baked 2010 B2 sessions, bits, etc there. ;) (cough… and there won’t be the confusion like TechEd09 and 2010 B1…  cough)

Anyway, If you going to upgrade to TFS 2010 (ZOMG, why wouldn’t you?) now is the time to start preparing your infrastructure. You all know how slow that goes, so now’s the time to get that process moving…

BTW, this screenshot is the docx via the Office Web Apps Tech Preview (that’s all web, no addin… looks nice doesn’t it? )

 

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