"Why would Microsoft support Eclipse? "It's all about money,” said Jeffrey Hammond, a principal analyst for Forrester Research. "They stand to make a decent amount of money by providing a single ALM solution that can work in large organizations that do both Java and .NET development." Hammond explained that Visual Studio Team System was disqualified for purchase as an ALM solution by many organizations for failing to support Eclipse out of the box. "This fixes that problem," he said." - scott willeke from Bookmarklet