I've been running the various versions of Vista for the past year or so, and have had to live with the compatibility/stability problems with some of my daily toolset. I understand that the need to alter the OS security model has complicated the usual smooth upgrade, and Vista's release date had slipped to an unacceptable degree, so Vista was released prior to the necessary updates being available for various Microsoft products.
I've never felt comfortable with this, as it reeks of a decision made my bean-counters & the marketing department, rather than the engineers themselves, so I've held off from installing Vista on any of machines (except in virtuals). Happily, the updates for the various products are coming thick and fast, so I'll be wiping my laptop and installing Vista this week, rather than having to continue to accept the performance of Virtual PC images on my less than stellar laptop. For anyone in the same situation, heres a list of the downloads I've found useful :
- Service Pack 2 for SQL 2005 can be downloaded here , it contains fixes for Vista and Office 2007.
- Virtual PC 2007 can be downloaded here . Don't try running Vista under Virtual PC 2004, it's not worth the effort.
And keep an eye on Windows Update this Friday-Monday, as Microsoft will be releasing a Vista-specific update for vs.net 2005 (according to this article it will contain 25 fixes for a variety of issues) the VS 2005 service pack 1 update for Vista has been released and can be found here