Beta 3 of Team Foundation Server Out

Microsoft on Friday released Beta 3 of its Team Foundation Server to MSDN subscribers. Based on the SQL Server 2005 CTP and Visual Studio 2005 Release Candidate first distributed at this year's Professional Developers Conference, the software is used to better manage application development.

The final release of TFS is expected sometime early next year. Rick LaPlante, general manager of Visual Studio Team System, said Microsoft was on track to release the program on time. "Releasing a high quality, feature complete TFS Beta 3 was a critical step in being ready for Q1 [2006] and we still feel good about that commitment," LaPlante wrote in his Web log.