This morning, S. Somasegar, Corporate VP of Developer Division, issued the following update on Visual Studio 2005 release plans (http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar).
Good news: "In September, we will release another milestone in the lead up to launch with the delivery of the first Visual Studio 2005 Release Candidate (“RC”). Visual Studio 2005 RC1 offers significant enhancements and greater quality over our previous Beta releases. This is when we go into “escrow mode”. RC will be made available to our MSDN subscribers, early adopters, and beta customers."
"Simultaneously with Visual Studio 2005 RC1, we will also release Beta 3 of Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server (TFS). TFS is Microsoft’s server-based product for team collaboration and is part of the Visual Studio 2005 wave of products."
and ...
"TFS Beta 3 will include a Go Live license along with technical support for Premier customers, enabling organizations to begin deployment of their Team System collaboration tools immediately."
Pffff. The next coming months will be a very busy time for me :)