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@khaos13: I'll be sure to do some demo from Eclipse and the Mac as well then

@bondsbw: I'm afraid we're not planning on doing any Hg integration.  However, there is an open source VS plug-in here on CodePlex http://visualhg.codeplex.com/

@PaulS: Sorry if the following sounds a bit like "marketing speak" but the following is what I honestly believe...

Centralized version control is not going anywhere. There are things that DVCS is good for and things that Centralized version control is good for. We want to offer choice so that you can manage your projects with the SCM workflow of your choice and still get all the benefits of the integrated, end to end ALM provided by TFS even if you have teams that are using both TFVC and Git.

@deadlydog: At the moment you need to use Git-TF to move code between Git and TFVC repos.  We're looking to invest more in that area but that's going to be something that we need to see how people use Git and TFVC together a bit first to figure out what we need to build.  With DVCS being so different from centralised version control we're probably going to want to figure out a flow that makes people the most successful at doing this.

@Olmo: Yeah - branch visualization of Git log is definitely something we're looking at.  Think we should be able to do something cool here.

@deadlydog: We've still got a way to come before we're happy enough with the features in the server to bake Git support into on premises TFS, but it will be in the "next major release of TFS" according to Brian Harry (and he's my boss so would know )

We don't have an equivalent to Check-in policies yet though we are looking at the best way of doing this with DVCS workflows to keep the benefits but give the control that people want. It might be something that git calls "Git Hooks" or it might be some other mechanism - still figuring it out. Looking forward to seeing how people use the service and the VS Tools for Git to help us figure the best approach out. 

@Alberto Silva: Should work with TFS 2008 although most testing is done against TFS 2010, TFS 2012 and with tfspreview.com.  To get it working with TFS Preview see the following instructions: http://tfspreview.com/en-us/learn/code/use-git-and-vs-with-tfs/

@aL3891: Yes - you can have custom work item process templates in TFS Express.  Ships with the standard Scrum, Agile and CMMI and full TFS.

@Violet_Tape: You are correct.  We changed how the build controllers and agents work in TFS 2011.  They now call home and communicate via the Application Tier then keep that channel open so that the AT can send messages back when it needs to do something.  This way you don't need to worry about IP addresses, NAT traversal, reverse proxying etc.  It should all just work provided the build controller has access to a internet connection (even if that connection is proxied).  This is one of the reasons why you need to install the TFS 11 version of the build agent to get it work with tfspreview.com

Hope that makes sense.  Let us know how you get on.

@abhijit:The Remaining Work be default is in hours.  That was a deliberate decision as it makes you evaluate how long you have left on this task which actually what you care about.  What you don't care about is how accurate your initial estimate was or having all your tasks getting to 80% done and then staying there  Does that make sense?