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title: "Microsoft acquired TeamPlain web client for TFS - Get your free download today"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/3/27/microsoft-acquired-teamplain-web-client-for-tfs-get-your-fre.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/3/27/microsoft-acquired-teamplain-web-client-for-tfs-get-your-fre.html"
published: "2007-03-27T11:49:30"
updated: "2007-03-27T11:49:30"
tags: ["Team System"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "This is the news of the day and you might have seen it in other blogs & news posts. Brian's blog talks in detail with screenshots at http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/03/26/microsoft-acquires-teamplain.aspx .…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# Microsoft acquired TeamPlain web client for TFS - Get your free download today

By Roy Osherove March 27, 2007 In [Team System](https://osherove.com/blog/category/team-system)

**Historical article** · Originally published March 27, 2007; technical details may be outdated.

This is the news of the day and you might have seen it in other blogs & news posts. Brian's blog talks in detail with screenshots at [http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/03/26/microsoft-acquires-teamplain.aspx](http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/03/26/microsoft-acquires-teamplain.aspx) . Effective today, TeamPlain is available, at no additional charge, to users who own a Team Foundation Server and can be downloaded from [here](http://www.devbiz.com/downloads.aspx)

\[via [Narend](http://blogs.msdn.com/narend/archive/2007/03/27/microsoft-acquired-teamplain-web-client-for-tfs-get-your-free-download-today.aspx)\]

## More in Team System

[All posts in Team System](https://osherove.com/blog/category/team-system)

- Apr 29, 2007

    ### [What Source Control tool do you use? And more on TFS Vs. Open Source tools](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/4/29/what-source-control-tool-do-you-use-and-more-on-tfs-vs-open.html)

- Apr 29, 2007

    ### [TFS or not? Being a perfectionist in a realistic world](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/4/29/tfs-or-not-being-a-perfectionist-in-a-realistic-world.html)

- Jan 28, 2007

    ### [Using TFS Integrator to manage complex project dependencies](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/1/28/using-tfs-integrator-to-manage-complex-project-dependencies.html)

- Dec 20, 2006

    ### [Team Data and the Database publishing wizard](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/12/20/team-data-and-the-database-publishing-wizard.html)


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