Source Safe Update? Puh-lease.

So, today I learned (via Mathew Reynolds) that Korby Parnell is piping up about the future of Visual Source Safe, calling it “100 decibels of source-controlled joy.”

After perusing the list of improvements for VSS in the Whidbey release, we find such impressive claims as “programmers will enjoy improved performance and tighter integration between Visual SourceSafe and the Visual Studio IDE."  C'mon, folks.  This claim is made in every single release of Visual Studio.  Next!

Face it, VSS is probably the worst commercial source code control tool on the market.  I believe, as a software configuration manager, I'm qualified to make this statement. The problems with VSS require a re-architected solution, and probably an entirely new product, not an upgrade release to an existing one.