Brian Harry has blogged about the upcoming power tools release and this is without a doubt the biggest yet, here’s a couple of the highlights to whet your appetite:

• Team Members displayed in Team Explorer, so what? Well…
• IM integration allows you to message team members from within Visual Studio
• View their shelvesets
• View their pending changes
• Improved deployment for check-in policies and custom work-item controls.
• Integration into Windows Explorer and PowerShell.