I don’t normal do posts that are just re-posts of TFS announcements, it is much better to get the information first hand from the original post, but this one is significant for us in Europe…
Up to now there has been a barrier to adoption of VSO that the underlying data will be hosted in the USA. Now there are all the usual Azure Microsoft guarantees about data security, but this has not been enough for some clients for legal, regulatory or their own reasons. This has made VSO a non-starter for many European’s where it at first appears a great match.
As of today you can now choose to host your new VSO account in Europe (Amsterdam data center). It won’t remove everyone’s worries of cloud hosting, but certainly is a major step in the right direction from a European point of view, addressing many regulatory barriers.
Unfortunately we will have to wait a few sprints to be able to migrate any existing VSO instances, but you can’t have everything in one go!
For the full details have a look at Brian Harry’s and Jamie Cool’s posts