The new products and initiatives are more like platforms from which to create your own tools, he said.

"For example, I think the DSL Tools add-ons are fantastic, as they make it so much easier for the developer to visualize their languages. Visual Studio Team System brings all the SDLC tools together in a single place so for you get interactive syntax highlighting of code coverage using the VSTS tests, which also can be used from the build server in a batch environment," he said.

"Also, TFS provides a huge extensibility model, allowing the creation of sophisticated, process-driven development workflows, one example of this is the Scrum process template."