{"id":2821,"date":"2012-10-31T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2012\/10\/31\/team-foundation-service-rtm\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T15:12:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T22:12:48","slug":"team-foundation-service-rtm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/team-foundation-service-rtm\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Foundation Service RTM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, we announced that the Team Foundation Service has released.\u00a0 Read more about it on the service web site here: http:\/\/tfs.visualstudio.com\/en-us\/home\/news\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I wanted to provide a bit of my own commentary (beyond what I put on the web site news)\u2026<\/p>\n

Our original plan was to hold RTM until all the billing infrastructure is in place.\u00a0 Over the past several months, we\u2019ve seen dramatic increases in people signing up.\u00a0 At the same time, I\u2019ve seen two questions come up repeatedly:<\/p>\n

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  1. Will my data be preserved when the service RTMs?\u00a0 I\u2019ve assured people that it will.\u00a0 This is a cloud service.\u00a0 It will continue to advance \u201cforever\u201d.\u00a0 However, it continues to be a source of anxiety.<\/li>\n
  2. How much will the service cost?\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen countless people play with the service and get to the point that they want to use it \u201cfor real\u201d but they can\u2019t with an open ended question on cost.\u00a0 We\u2019ve made it clear that the data in the service is yours and we\u2019ll ensure you have a way to get your data if the pricing is unappealing.\u00a0 However, it has continued to be an issue.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Over the past couple of months, we\u2019ve been asking ourselves what we could do to make these issues clearer and eliminate the anxiety for people.\u00a0 At the same time, we haven\u2019t invented a time machine yet and we don\u2019t actually have all of the billing infrastructure in place.\u00a0 So we worked to walk a fine line.\u00a0 So, this RTM announcement has the following key components:<\/p>\n

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    1. The service has RTMed.\u00a0 That means we are committed to this service for the long term; it is ready for production use; your data is safe and will be carried forward indefinitely.\u00a0 Our support organization is trained and ready to support customers with any issues.<\/li>\n
    2. We will provide a free level of service up to 5 users in an account.\u00a0 This includes all of the features currently on the service (including \u201cPremium\u201d features like Agile Project Management).\u00a0 For now build has no cap, although we expect to introduce one at some point (probably a small # of build hours per month for free accounts).\u00a0 Because of this, the build service is still marked as \u201cpreview\u201d to indicate that we have not settled on the precise usage allowance yet.<\/li>\n
    3. We will provide the service to MSDN subscribers with Premium, Ultimate and TestPro subscriptions.\u00a0 Users with those subscriptions can participate in teams\/projects of unlimited size and take advantage of all the features of the service.\u00a0 There will eventually also be a cap on build for this scenario as well \u2013 but presumably much larger than the free accounts.\u00a0 We can\u2019t, of course, allow unlimited compute usage for a fixed cost under any level of subscription \"Image<\/a><\/li>\n
    4. We will provide a paid subscription option next year for teams that don\u2019t fall into category 2 or 3.\u00a0 We have not disclosed any details about that paid subscription at this point \u2013 expect to hear more next year.<\/li>\n
    5. There is no enforcement of any of these rules today.\u00a0 All usage is free but we\u2019ve provided some information about what rules we intend to enforce and will introduce that enforcement with billing next year.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      The new url for Team Foundation Service is http:\/\/tfs.visualstudio.com<\/a>. The old url, http:\/\/tfspreview.com<\/a>, will also continue to work for some months but will eventually be retired.<\/p>\n

      At the same time, we expect the service, as is stands today is not for everyone.\u00a0 There are many gaps between what is on the service and what you can do with our on-premises product.\u00a0 Some examples include:<\/p>\n

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