We quite like Mary-Jo’s new series on the Microsoft Big Brains.

Two weeks ago it was Gary Flake. He’s the Director of Live Labs.

Today it was Brian Harry. We’ve been long time devotees of Brian. He’s the man that made TFS cool.

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Brian Harry, one of the ’softies on the TFS team blogged last week about some of the ‘assumptions’ they are making in the next version of Team Foundation Server (codename ‘Rosario’).

In particular the following items caught our eye:

• Only supporting SQL Server 2008 (ie dropping support for SQL Server 2005)
• Only supporting Office 2007 (dropping support for Office 2003)
• Only supporting WSS 3.0 (dropping 2.0 support)
• Following on from this, it is evident that TFS will be forging stronger ties with SharePoint (which is apparently getting very popular these days <g>)

So, in summary, they’re basically making the road to implementation extremely difficult. Sucks to be you if you’re still stuck on SQL Server 2005. But it’ll be a while before Rosario is released anyway, and we all know that companies upgrade their database servers quickly don’t we?