Feature ideas for Visual Studio 10 start to emerge

Visual Studio 2008 has been here for a while now, and the next version of Visual Studio will eventually be here. Just recently, public details of Visual Studio 10 (or "VS10") are starting to emerge. The VSX Conference in USA has been held, and things talked there are summarized in a blog post by Jeffrey Schlimmer.

Interesting features are, among others, a WPF-based code editor (!), the focus of a smaller and faster IDE, integrated IM client (Instant Messaging, think Live Messenger), and setup improvements.

Sounds like plenty of interesting things. The keys are: "Experience", "Customer", "Platform" and "Architecture".