22 engineers on Hacker News describe using Team Foundation Server first-hand: 1 endorse it, 7 regret it, 3 are mixed.
“I've been using it at work since we moved from TF source control to TF-Git, close to a decade ago.”
mixed · production · 9 yr · rawling · 2026-08-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“With server, your local copy was marked read-only. ... We moved to local workspaces as Quickly as we could”
regret · production · alistairSH · 2023-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we migrated to... TFS, sadly, but even that was an improvement.”
mixed · production · pianoben · 2023-01-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The only real complaint I have is speed. Dunno if it's our TFS server or the nature of TFS, but every checkin pulled into git takes anywhere from 5-30 seconds.”
regret · production · Merad · 2017-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched a large Nodejs project from TFS to GitLab and it's been night-and-day on our productivity.”
regret · production · 0xfeba · 2017-09-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to TFS and never had problems like that again.”
endorse · production · stephengillie · 2017-07-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Before we moved to Git, Roslyn was on TFS, which was basically Perforce/CVS/SVN. ... Git offers value that was transformative compared to the former.”
regret · production · Locke1689 · 2017-01-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had to suffer through it at two previous jobs. Never again.”
regret · production · joneholland · 2016-09-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've thrown TFS out, moved to mercurial+JIRA”
regret · production · meaty · 2012-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Team Foundation for a few other things related to project management (personally, I'm not a fan)”
regret · production · Splines · 2011-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I actually enjoy using it... That said, it truly is a beast to setup/configure/maintain”
mixed · production · dbattaglia · 2011-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we migrated large teams of programmers who's only experience with version control before git was microsoft TFS”
neutral · production · beanjuiceII · 2025-07-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we migrated from Visual Source Safe to TFS at my place of work. I was in charge of the migration and we hit errors”
neutral · production · TowerTall · 2025-06-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used to use a GUI when working with TFS, CVS, and SVN.”
neutral · production · wolpoli · 2023-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We had the same problem in TFS. ... We migrated to our corporate TFS cloud, and they kicked us off for precisely the same reason.”
neutral · production · chasil · 2022-08-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“as we migrated away from TFS”
neutral · production · hvidgaard · 2018-09-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we moved to git long ago because it's what every single IT-based student learns in my country.”
neutral · production · sidstling · 2018-09-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched to TFS, with phone calls and Skype”
neutral · production · beobab · 2018-06-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched over to VSTS from on premises TFS early this year”
neutral · production · juice_bus · 2017-07-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“After we switched to TFS, our supervisor was increasingly pushing us to plan our sprints and update our burndown.”
neutral · production · vpeters25 · 2014-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use TFS) created for each release of our product”
neutral · production · pionar · 2014-11-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've struggled in moving from SVN/TFS to GIT, but it's been worthwhile”
neutral · production · tracker1 · 2013-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?