Test Center review: With Visual Studio 2005 Team System, Microsoft is forging “a path familiar to participants in global-scale projects but which has never been scaled down for small to moderate efforts,” begins Tom Yager. He predicts that project managers will go crazy for this version from day one. Deployment is easy. Testers have an array of new tools. And while the product is not intended for large teams, its value is that “it handles the paradigm complexities while your people focus on their jobs.” Read the full review. Podcasts: The storage news this week arrives in the form of Brocade buying McData and EMC embracing an SOA-based approach to records management. Tune into Storage Sprawl. The news beat: IT comes to prime time. Well, sort of anyway, in a British comedy titled The IT Crowd. Google CEO Eric Schmidt says that, due to security measures his company has in place, the release of search records plaguing AOL could never happen at Google. And Oracle denies reports that it is going to acquire Kingdee, a Chinese ERP provider. (Sorry, those are not the first two episodes of The IT Crowd, even if they could be.) Software Development