I have seen at Team Foundation Service free package for 5 users.
Is this free forever or for limited period of time? I mean is this for trial period?
I assume you're referring to the pricing information on the site? That's not a trial pricing model they're referring to. That's the arrangement that will be in place once they start charging.
I can't speak for what Microsoft will do with their pricing plans in the future but I'd be very surprised if they took away free features. If anything I'd expect it to move the other way based on competitive pressures.
The latest pricing structure has been posted since this service has been officially launched. Check out their Visual Studio Online pricing page.
As Dave Chen said, Microsoft has made no promises as to what their pricing will be forever. At this point in time, the Visual Studio Online Basic remains free for up to five users. The tiers above Basic do not receive the free five user allotment. Also, at this point in time, MSDN subscribers can join any Visual Studio Online project for free and do not count against the five free users.
All of this is subject to change.
Microsoft have not announced the pricing model for Team Foundation Service yet.
Brian Harry's blog will probably see the announcment first.
Here is his last comment on the matter.
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Since there exist plugin for Skype for Business that do much more than that.
How hard would that be to create similar plug-in for MS Team with only functionality would be taking the status from the Genesys and setting it up to the corresponding status in Ms Teams, so if someone is on the call everyone can see it on MS TEAMS and know he's not available.
Would someone with little experience in writing plug-ins could do it and where he could start? Maybe they already working on it? Any ideas?
Microsoft will always focus on customer’s feedback and experience, some new features would be added to the services based on customers' feedback in the future, we also recommend you to raise your UserVoice here:
It was originally free and I was using it for almost 3-4 months. It told me that I exceeded the quota so I deleted the project and created a new one. I went to Catalog then Watson Visual Recognition and the only plan avaialble is standard which means I have to pay but before I set it up for free and was using it fine since then. Am I doing something wrong or did IBM change something? I even tried this on a new account but it still says the same thing.
As per the Visual Recognition service release notes dated: 16-10-2020
Changes
The following new features and changes to the service are available.
16 October 2020
You can no longer create a Lite plan instance of the Visual Recognition service. However, existing Lite plan instances remain available. You can create new instances as billable Standard plans.
You can check the details in the documentation here
Yes,IBM has made visual recognition to paid..But lite version is still available on the cloud and you can use them for a while like 4-6 months and after the lite plan done you need to get a paid plan which gives you more abilities to do with IBM Watson services currently..And my suggestion if your trying to learn or want to learn or advance these topics see the docs of service.
Where can I download the enterprise edition of Microsoft Solver Foundation? I am able to get the express edition online, but it has a limit on the number of variables and constraints. I want to solve large LPs using the enterprise edition.
Historically it was available as a purchase from Gurobi.
However the software is now defunct(*) and I no longer see it on their site. You can see how it used to look here.
You might try contacting them directly.
(*)In May 2012 last year, the Solver Foundation team wrote:
The current 3.1 release of MSF will be the last release as a standalone install. We are working hard on integrating Microsoft Solver Foundation into a larger analytics framework that will help users build both prescriptive and predictive analytics. We look forward to releasing this new product for your use as soon as we are able to do so. This new product will provide a migration path for current Solver Foundation users and partners.
if you have msdn subscription, then try standard edition first. also academic license is an option if eligible.
I am looking at bizspark but the page with the software seems outdated. I am wondering if anyone has a current list or can confirm if that is the current list.
http://www.bizspark.com/v2/Programs/Pages/BizSpark_Software_and_Tools.aspx
Like it still say you get Vs 2008? How about 2010? What version of 2010? How many licenses?
We have BizSpark, and VS2010 Ultimate is available for download, just like Office 2010 (although there are limitations on the way you're allowed to use Office).
In a nutshell, BizSpark gives you free MSDN Premium subscriptions - only without support. The BizSpark FAQ also has some helpful information.
We have a small 3 developer team that is currently using Subversion for our source control. We expect the team to group to 8 members within the next 6 to 12 months. We are considering changing our source control to either TFS or Mercurial for improved branching. I know TFS is overkill for just branching, but that is the immediate need, and the other features of TFS could aid our team. One of our main concerns with TFS is we've heard that there is a lot of overhead deploying it, especially on a small team. I'm hoping to get some community insight into just how much overhead there may be involved, suggestions to make the process easier, and anything else the community may feel is useful in making the decision to implement.
In my experience, TFS works really well, even for small teams. If your total number of developers is five or less, you can use the relatively affordable Workgroup edition: above that, you'll have to pony up for the real thing, pricing for which is definitely in the 'Enterprise' realm...
The biggest hurdle to starting to use TFS is installing the darn thing: this process seems to be designed for maximum aggravation. (The extent to which the 'designers' of the 2005-to-2008 upgrade 'process' despise their users even manages to go beyond that: fortunately, you'll be able to start with TFS2008 and won't have to worry about upgrading for a while).
If you follow the instructions exactly, you should manage in 2-3 tries, though, and the hardware requirements aren't as bad as they seem. My 3-developer TFS setup runs quite comfortable on a previous-generation Dell laptop with 4GB of RAM.
One of the big advantages of TFS is the VS integration: this works just really, really well, and shelving and branching are implemented in a more straightforward way than with any other systems I've seen.
The process guidance and support in TFS are a bit less polished, but still quite usable. The pluggable support for several development methodologies is quite nice, and several third-party add-ons (for example for Scrum) are available already.
All in all, it definitely won't hurt to try TFS: if you have a MSDN subscription, you probably already have the Workgroup edition as well as a trial of the full version: otherwise, you can downloaded the latter from Microsoft as well.
UPDATE, April 12th, 2010: With the release of Team Foundation Server 2010, the installation and upgrade procedures have improved a lot. A new TFS2010 install shouldn't take you more than a few minutes (assuming you already have an instance of SQL Server 2008 up and running) and even an in-place upgrade of my TFS2008 setup proved to be entirely painless.
Setup of TFS is not too complicated, when you exactly follow the given guide step by step. We are using it on a small team for about one year now and i don't want to miss it any more.
Especially when you use more than one part of tfs like version control and work item tracking and maybe even teambuild, your team will benefit of the tight integration of the seperate parts.
For example, you can link to workitems when checking in code changes.
Then you run an automated build with teambuild and it will automatically update your workitems with the build number.
So afterwards you can see for example in a bug workitem the buildnumber which contains the bugfix.
We also use the sharepoint wiki for documentation and planning although i'm not the biggest sharepoint fan...
The main point is the great integration into the IDE and for workitem tracking the Teamsystem Web Access which allows you to control at least your workitems over a webinterface.
It's been awhile, but I'm thinking that it takes about a half-day to get setup, plus some time reading the manuals beforehand to make sure you know what you're doing. Configuration doesn't take too long -- you need to add all of your developers in as licensed users. Setting up projects is not too hard. I usually set up AD groups to map on the project roles and add those groups to the appropriate roles. I set up a new project in about 1/2 hour.
Note: I don't use any of the features of TFS except source control. If you plan to item tracking, use the project sharepoint site, etc., your mileage will vary quite a bit. I've found that on our projects (2-3 developers) a wiki works just as well for project management.