Microsoft is back again to hedging about when the firm will supply the ultimate version of "Orcas,
Office Pro Plus 2010," the next release of its Visual Studio tool suite. Last year, the Softies were quietly floating a 2007/2008 delivery date for Orcas. Then, in February 2007,
Office Pro, Scott Guthrie, the general manager of Microsoft's Developer Division, blogged that Orcas would ship in 2007, after all. This week, Microsoft is back to wavering. Microsoft is planning to supply a non-feature-complete Beta 1 of Orcas in April, Soma Somasegar, the Corporate Vice President in charge of Microsoft's Developer Division, said during an interview on April 16. Microsoft expects to ship another beta of the product later this year. The ultimate may or may not make it out in calendar 2007, Somasegar said. Microsoft plans to position Orcas as the best, general-purpose tool set for developing for the Web, Windows Vista,
Office 2007 Keygen,
Office 2007 and Longhorn Server,
Windows 7 Professional, he said. Orcas will include edition 3.5 of the .Net Framework. At the same time as it is working on Orcas, Microsoft is working on Rosario, the next edition of Visual Studio Team Server. Rosario will include new testing functionality and integration with Microsoft System Center and Project Server and its portfolio management tools, company officials said. In about another month, Microsoft will begin its post-Orcas Visual Studio planning,
Windows 7 Pro Product Key, Somasegar said. Microsoft officials have used the code name "Hawaii" to refer to its generalized plans for development tools after the Orcas/Rosario releases. But Hawaii is not the code name for a future release of Visual Studio, Somasegar reiterated this week.