You want to know more about Team System 2010.  Well Charles Sterling has made a post with a nice big collection of video's.  You can find this big collection here: http://blogs.msdn.com/charles_sterling/archive/2008/10/13/visual-studio-2010-videos.aspx

Yes it's possible.  The announcement is made at PDC.

The next version of Office will also include a browser based version of Word, Excel, Onenote and Powerpoint.  They aren't the full blown version but kind of express or lightweight versions.  The user can create, edit and collaborate office documents through the browser.  It will work on all browsers except Google Chrome.

You can read more here: http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/Features/2008/oct08/10-28PDCOffice.mspx

It's a pitty that I wasn't able to go to PDC.  A lot of interresting news is comming from there up to me .

.Net has a new logo. This is the one.

This looks so great for me it so refreshing.  Being tired after 8 years of the old logo, I'm so happy with it.

Some really excited news.  Now you can download the CTP of Team System 2010.  This is the link : https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/content/content.aspx?ContentID=9790

There's also the possibility to leave feedback.

Together with my colleague Bart Wullems I wrote an article about eScrum in Team Foundation Server.  This article is published in the Dutch .Net Magazine.  This magazine is from Microsoft Netherlands for the Netherlands and Belgium Microsoft Developers.

This is the link directly to our article : http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/3/0/130ccf47-be89-48ee-829d-3a6568befbaa/114602.pdf (It's in Dutch)

You can read the magazine online here : http://msdn.microsoft.com/nl-nl/cc998678.aspx.

I hear you thinking, another Team System user group.  Yes, but this one is special.  Its called TSUG-VE which means Team System User Group - Virtual Edition.

This user group lives on the Microsoft Island of Second Life.  So everyone in the world could join this group.  This is the link to the website : http://www.tsug-ve.com/.

If you join, please read the rules.

I just received some sad news.

Patrick Tisseghem, one of the Belgium Sharepoint Guru's and co-founder of U2U passed away.

Words fall short to describe this.  I know Patrick for several years.  I followed several courses given by him.  He was always helpful.

Patrick, I'm glad to know you.

My thoughts go out to his wife Linda and their daughters.

We will miss you Patrick.

After all the SP releases, Microsoft also now released the SP1 for Team System Web Access.

Download it here : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3ECD00BA-972B-4120-A8D5-3D38311893DE

If you have installed Team explorer 2005 and afterwards installed Team Explorer 2008, there's a bug when opening Work items in Excel.  You got following error

TF80070 Team Foundation encountered an error while performing the operation. It is recommended that you save your work and restart the application.

There's a hotfix available for this : KB946075. Unfortunately you can't download this fix, unless you have Microsoft support calls available in your organization.

But luckily there's a work around for this.  You can use Team Explorer 2005 to connect to your TFS 2008 and open from within this tool your excel.  I know it's a work around, but till you can get your hands on the hotfix, this should help you.

Today the July version of the TFS Power Tools is released.  You can download them here : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=00803636-1d16-4df1-8a3d-ef1ad4f4bbab&displaylang=en

Read more about them in the preview of Brian Harry.

Two other updates are also coming shortly:

• eScrum for TFS2008
• Update of Team Web Access and SCOM management