For those of you keeping tabs, Microsoft recently released a slue of information regarding the next versions of Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server.

Some of the highlights…

• The official release date for Visual Studio 2010 is March 22, 2010.  This and some other announcements can be heard on the latest Radio TFS podcasts.
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 was released on Monday (Oct. 19th) to MSDN Subscribers.  The aforementioned podcast also hinted that a Virtual PC image with VS 2010 Beta 2 made be released shortly.  If not, Brian Keller has posted another video on how to download and install the Beta 2 software.  Between this and information from my previous post, you should be able to set up a Virtual PC image with the correct bits.
• Expect to see a lot of new webcasts on Visual Studio 2010 at Channel 9 in the coming days/weeks.
• Microsoft also announced that they are revamping their licensing structure to correspond with the new version.  Brian Harry discusses this in more detail on his blog.

Lots of exciting news out of Microsoft.  I was kind of hoping that they’d release this yet in 2009, but I’m glad they’re taking the extra time to work out the bugs rather than rush the product to production too early.