Visual Studio 2005

Or: Why you should move away from Microsoft. Now.

Visual Studio 2005, the new version of Microsoft's development tools, is coming out. Among its new features are Branching, Bug Tracking, and Atomic Checkins. Yes, that's right: Anno 2004, Microsoft still did not sell a version control system that had something as basic and important as branching. Kinda reminds me of the time when Microsoft implemented a telnet service for Windows right around the time when the UNIX world finally decided that telnet and RSH are insecure by design and that you should use SSH instead.

If Microsoft keeps lagging behind on such fundamental issues, you shouldn't be using them.