As promised, Brian Harry has new posted the Team Foundation Server Roadmap on his blog for all the world to see.

If I had to choose a paragraph the summarise the upcoming Orcas release from the roadmap, this would be it.

“Overall, Orcas is a “minor” release for TFS.  Partly this is mandated by the fact that TFS shipped later than the rest of VS in the 2005 wave.  We want to sync back up for the Orcas wave and that means doing less.  Our goal for the Orcas release of TFS is to make it an “adoption focused release”.  We are allocating most of our time to removing issues that customers have told us hamper their adoption.  As a result, in the feature list below, you’ll see an emphasis on administration, operations & setup.”

From the list of things they are looking at for the Orcas release you can see they Microsoft really do listen to the community’s feedback. I know many people will be very happy to see a few major pain points being addressed in the next release.

If you want to know where Microsoft is going with the next release of TFS, make sure you read the full article.