Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta - Init

<body> <h1>Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta</h1> <p>Starting today, developers who use Microsoft Visual Studio have a new way to highlight their skills, get recognition for the amazing work they do every day, and add some competitive fun to the development day.</p><p>Visual Studio <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9team/Announcing-Visual-Studio-Achievements">Achievements</a>, a Visual Studio plug-in, enables developers to unlock badges and compete against one another for a place on a <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/achievements/visualstudio">leader board</a> based on the code they write, its level of sophistication, and the Visual Studio capabilities they use to do so.</p> </body>