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Microsoft has long has a souce control application called Visual Source Safe. However, it hasn't been updated in years and really isn't state of the art. It's also known to corrupt the source database in some versions. Even most teams at Microsoft weren't using SourceSafe. Last month at the MVP Summit, someone asked about updates to SourceSafe and the answer was "Stay tuned. We'll have something about that soon." Soon turned out to be yesterday at TechEd. Microsoft has announced Visual Studio Team System, which is much more than source control. VSTS is a complete life cycle management system that includes modeling, testing, code analysis, and deployment tools. If you think this all sounds high end and geared toward corporate developers, you're right. Microsoft's target competition is Rational. In fact, Sam Guckenheimer, one of the main guys behind VSTS used to work for Rational.