>>>The full TFS will be included in MSDN Professional and up. TFS Basic will be the free version and targeted at non-MSDN subscribers and Visual Source Safe users.
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>>>>If I'm not mistaken, that is the TFS Basic version which allows for single user (or maybe 5 like the old workgroup edition, not sure). But you can install it on the desktop (no server required - Win Vista or Win 7). I have it installed on my laptop for source control and works well.
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>>I think its about time Microsoft came to their senses for TFS. After killing VSS in favor of TFS and then trying to hit people for what, 10 grand per user for TFS they deserved to have developers leave in droves.
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>Where did you get the 10K/user figure.
>This looks a more realistic assessment:http://geekswithblogs.net/iupdateable/archive/2009/04/09/how-much-does-team-foundation-server-really-cost-vs-sourcesafe.aspx (but in Sterling)

Somewhere that number got stuck in my head.

After you get up over a couple thousand $ per person it all looks the same to me (unobtanium).