Orcas Beta 1 Available Soon!

Those of you lucky enough to have an MSDN subscription can go download Beta 1 very shortly, according to the announcement it is available now (but it isn’t showing up in my MSDN subscription yet) - I suspect that the lovely bits on on the way through the MSDN distribution pipe as we speak.

However, while you are waiting you can check out the Channel 9 video of the announcement from Soma.

My poor ADSL pipe - I’m already downloading Ubuntu Linux 7.04 over bittorrent which was also released today. At least I’ll have something to play with over the weekend :-)

With Beta 1 I’m going to be attempting a side by side installation of Orcas Beta 1 with VS 2005 and VS 2003 (and also the many versions of Eclipse I have on my main dev machine which is running Vista). I’ll let you know how I get on. I will however be cheating and going for the VPC version of Team Foundation Server just to save myself some time setting that up right now.

Update: The VPC Image with Team Foundation Server installed is now available via the public download site. Personally, I use a download manager (such as wxDownload) to get these files as they are pretty big. If you do to, then the following direct download links may well be useful