Like many other people I know and read about, I switched my primary production system over to Windows Vista starting with the release of Beta 2. I spend most of my time in Visual Studio 2005, Office 2007, and a few miscellaneous CAD tools for embedded systems development. Since the release of Beta 2 I have had very few stability problems and most of my software has worked without issue (with the exception of Camtasia, which I think is a TechSmith problem).
When I was getting ready to update from RC1 to RC2 I was assaulted with a horrific message, "SQL Server 2005 is not compatible with RC2". I use SQL Server Express 2005 almost on a daily basis and depend on it for many of my development projects. The update looked like it could continue and would not uninstall SQL Server Express 2005, so I decided to give it a try and hope for the best.
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