Can Microsoft take a page from open source?

eWeek | at | by Mike

While Microsoft will not actually deliver any new bits at the VSLive Conference in San Francisco next week, the company will share the status of some of its key tools and discuss release targets.

Sources said Microsoft plans to announce that Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2005; Beta 3 of SQL Server 2005; and the much-anticipated first CTP of Indigo, the new communications subsystem for the upcoming version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, all will be released on March 31.