I don’t know about you, but I haven’t used a shared installation of Visual SourceSafe for years — well, except for that cranky 10-year-old staging Web site I’d rather not think about.

The Basic installation option of TFS is suited for SourceSafe users because it is easier to install than previous iterations, installing in about 20 minutes if the .Net Framework is present.

Also it takes just 30 minutes to install, he said. "If you have a machine sitting under your desk and that's been the box you use for source control, you will have more options than you had previously ...