In exciting news today, Microsoft have announced that they have acquired DevBiz Business Solutions, makers of TeamPlain Web Access for Team System. I have been a big fan of TeamPlain since its beta release and this purchase addresses one of the most frequently feature requests for VSTS – a Web UI.What’s more, it is now available as a FREE download!!!

Brian Harry reports that

TeamPlain will become Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Web Access.  Effective today, TeamPlain is available, at no additional charge, to users who own a Team Foundation Server and can be downloaded from here.  It will be accessible by any user properly licensed with a TFS CAL.  Support will continue to be provided by the current staff via the DevBiz online forums.

Over the next few months, we will be rebranding TeamPlain as a Microsoft product and running it through our release process.  When that is complete, we will be releasing it as a VSTS Power Tool, transitioning support to the Microsoft forums and beginning CSS (phone) support.  In the Orcas timeframe, we will be releasing Team System Web Access as an official, documented, localized, and officially supported component of Team Foundation Server.

For more information, read Brian Harry’s full blog post Microsoft Acquires TeamPlain!

You can also read the Press Release where this was announced.

Congratulations to Hakan and all the team at DevBiz. I now know why we’ve not heard much about TeamPlain v2.0