Microsoft preps Platform, Visual Studio upgrades
WinInfo | at | by Mike
At the VSLive developer show in San Francisco this week, Microsoft will demonstrate the next two Visual Studio .NET versions, including Visual Studio .NET 2003 (code-named "Everett"), which will ship April 24 alongside Windows Server 2003. And because Microsoft is targeting all future Visual Studio releases to its major platform releases, the next version of Visual Studio, code-named Whidbey, will ship in early 2004 with the "Yukon" release of SQL Server. After that, the next version will ship with Windows "Longhorn" in late 2004 or early 2005.
"Visual Studio .NET 2003 is a reassurance for customers," Dan Hay, Lead Product Manager in Microsoft's Developer Division, told me recently. "The tools are improving, and we're listening to feedback. But [the product is] not improving or changing dramatically. The 'Yukon' release of Visual Studio is the next release, and it's a major, substantial release."