Microsoft is on the right track with Team Foundation Server, said VSLive! attendee Todd Dickard, billing systems manager at TravelCenters of America.

"Visual SourceSafe doesn't cut it," Dickard said, referring to Microsoft's earlier code management system. He added that he sees a need to bridge the duties of architects, developers, and end-users.

TravelCenters will evaluate Team Foundation Server, he said.

Also, in the next couple of months, Microsoft will transition from the planning phase of Orcas to actual development, Somasegar said. Orcas will leverage technologies such as Atlas, providing AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript plus XML)-style programming.

Somasegar said Microsoft has had more than 10 million copies of its .Net Framework 2.0 runtime downloaded since the November release of Visual Studio 2005.