I don't know what to title this post. My friend Scott Hanselman is having all sorts of legitimate problems with Vista RC1 and finds the experience painful, which have led at least some to not install. He lists a bunch of things that either don't install or are not working correctly. As we all know, Scott is the master of machines and software tools so these are very serious issues to be considered. The weird thing, on the other hand, as I reported here, my experiences have been and continue to be great and rewarding.

My Vista RC1 experience is so good that not only have I been using it here as my main desktop OS at home but I am doing hard-core development on it without problems and with great performance. As you know from all my posts about our project we are not exactly using old technology but everything bleeding that pushes the edge (.NET 3, WCF, etc). I am working from home today developing some caching code with EntLib and I have all running, without any slowdowns or problems:

1. Visual Studio 2005 Full Team Edition building a 38 project solution
2. CodeRush and Refactor! Pro in VS2005
3. NUnit
4. SQL Server 2005
5. Bunch of IE 7 browsers
6. Outlook 2007 B2 Refresh
7. Word 2007 B2 Refresh
8. Ent Lib, CAB, etc.
9. xPlorer2
10. Yahoo
11. Live Messenger
12. Foxit Pro
13. Windows Media 11 and Urge
14. Feed Demon
15. and oh ya, FolderShare syncing megabytes of stuff between my various machines