Great webcast about Orcas

I found this good webcast that gives you a good overview for Orcas. It is "Conversation with Soma: Orcas Beta 1 and Beyond". Soma is the vice president of the developer division. He guides us of some of the new features of Orcas.

Orcas is build with 3 pillars (Value propositions)

1. Best tool for the latest platforms: Vista, Longhorn server, Office, AJAX...
2. Increase the developer productivity. LINQ support and multi targeting (you can build apps for .NET fwk 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5 with Orcas).
3. Increase the team productivity. New and better Team Foundation Server.

Soma also talk about that the Orcas developer team started using Orcas TFS live for the project about one month before the beta 1 was released. He also talk about how Orcas supports the increasing application user experience demands.

He ends the webcast by talking a little about the main focus areas of Rosario:

• Testing tools. Like test case management, code coverage tools and load test tools.
• Requirement management. Did we do what we should. Some tool for managing requirements and see what requirements are implemented, not implemented, tested and so.
• Some workflow tool throught the whole IT deparment. Product mangager - developer - operations.