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I have talked about how I ran Vista since August 5th on my main laptop and the experience has been fantastic.While the Aero Glass effects are amazing with Build 5219, this build is a CTP NOT Beta 2, so I have had sufficient problems that it doen't make sense to run it. You should also know if you are a WinFX developer expecting to do certain types of Avalon and Indigo applications, that IIS(7) is not installed at all or available for this build. All this was good for me to discover in preparing for my Advanced Indigo on Vista talk where I will mention all this. The net is that since you don't have IIS there and there a lot of problems, it's not really a viable build even for developing. This is coupled with the fact that XP is a better development environment for WinFX right now. I was not able to discern nor run any additional capabilities of Indigo on Vista. I have Longhorn Server but the existing build does not yet include IIS. A new build should be coming shortly.

Given all of that and my upcoming Code Camp and the fact that Vista is unfriendly to projectors right now I repaved the machine to Windows Media Center 2005 and I will dual boot this with Vista Beta 1.  Allthough Beta 1 of Vista does not support the September WinFX RC I am not sure that it's worth running at this point.