I've made two installs of Orcas Beta 1 from the 5.32-GB ISO image under Windows Vista Ultimate so far: 1) On a fresh 20-GB partition with Vista (Dell 400SC with 2.24-GHz P4 and 2GB RAM) and 2) On a virtualized Vista VM running under VS 2005 R2 RC1 on a Gateway S5200D 2.8-GHz Intel DualCore with 4GB RAM (1-GB assigned to the VM). Both were custom installs with VC++ and Crystal Reports features excluded. March 2007 CTP Sync Services apps and LINQ to SQL apps that didn't use the O/R Designer required
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