Neither of these seem to offer you an experience similar to the bug tracking and task management you find in Unfuddle, Fogbugz or Rally, particularly if just want to enter a title, description, state and estimation.
You get a choice of winforms or an equivalent browser-experience with Sharepoint/the default interface. The user experience for Team Foundation Server 2010 is in my view is quite far behind the others - the others being Github, Bitbucket, Fogbugz, Rally, Unfuddle.
Most of these alternative sites offer the software development experience: Source control, Build servers and Bug tracking (including estimation, charts and ski slope graphs to prove your team are doing something other than browsing youtube). This is no doubt why most Microsoft dev houses choose it.
I prefer Mercurial for personal development because of its simplicity, but I haven’t tried it as part of a team and it does of course make a lot more commercial sense to use something that you get for free with your MSDN subscription: TFS. I’ve been through a lot of online source control providers: Codeplex (with TFS), Subversion via Google Code, Unfuddle, Wush, Github. I also use Mercurial for my home (but commercial) projects with Bitbucket. I use TFS on a daily basis as our source control repository.
Pop up windows, huge urls, verdana 8pt and masses of unnecessary HTML. The original was fairly good looking and easy to use (in an Office 2003 type way), but it seems like the Sharepoint experience managed to strip this veneer away like a vat of acid, leaving the front end experience we have now that is like most of the current state of Microsoft’s UX: stuck in the Office 2003 epoch unable to keep up with the current avant garde of web 2.0. This comes from a company that Microsoft bought called TeamPlain, who were previously selling the site software as standalone. It is, however, still not really close to the easy of use and user experience you get from competitor bug tracking software.Ģ010 can now tie into a sharepoint installation to give a UI via the browser. Team Foundation Server has had some great improvements since the 20 versions, including a plethora of new link types for workitems, an API that is a lot more dev friendly and some improvements to the Visual Studio UI.