My Take on Not Getting VSTS

After reading Early Adopter's post about how VSTS will not even be available via MSDN Universal Subscribers, I thought to myself - why the heck is Microsoft even implementing VSTS. If its not going to be available to most developers out there (unless your a super corp with loads of $$, not my company - we get ours from MSDN Universal) then the darn thing 1) isn't going to be bought by individuals/developers, 2) isn't going to be an available tool that MS will probably market it as, 3) isn't going to be worth the time spending thousands of hours developing it.

So my only irk about this is, why the heck create it, if you're not going to let developers/teams use it at a reasonable cost. Stupid position MS, stupid.

7 Comments

  • Strange, in Joel's "How MS Lost The API War" rant he writes...



    "It's so important for Microsoft that the only reason they don't outright give away development tools for Windows is because they don't want to inadvertently cut off the oxygen to competitive development tools vendors (well, those that are left) because having a variety of development tools available for their platform makes it that much more attractive to developers. But they really want to give away the development tools."



    I'd love VSTS too, but maybe there's something they know that we don't...NOT.

  • I agree, if its not in MSDN universal, my chance of using it is drastically reduced.

  • MS is taking out other things from "Universal" subscription, too. For example VS 2005 Team System...



    It seems that somebody in MS is inventing a new meaning for the word 'universal'...





    Srdjan

  • @Srdjan



    ::MS is taking out other things from "Universal"

    ::subscription, too. For example VS 2005 Team

    ::System...



    Yeah,



    they also take more stuff out.



    Like the Team System

    and the Team System



    Nice comment you did. The Post is about VSTS and you talk aobut Visual Studio Team System. eality check: you both tal abou the same thing.

  • As I understand it, VSTS will still be available through MSDN Universal (in one form or another). Read an official blog about it somewhere. God knows where though.

  • What about team system? are they keeping team system or taking it out?

  • Maybe that one guy thought you said VSTO

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