Well, I’ve finally downloaded the ISO from MSDN and started loading it in a Virtual PC VM for a first test. So far, the install seems to be running very smoothly… I’ve been asked where to install it to – and I can play around with the partition sizes etc. I’ve been asked for a Product Key, and that’s about it…..

I’ll be intrigued to see if it picks up my UK keyboard, and how it works out my timezone etc.

If it all goes well, I’m thinking of making my laptop at home a dual boot machine – I have a second hard drive that goes in the multi-bay slot that I currently use for backups….. I might just vape that and try it out as well – to see what performance is like on a dedicated machine rather that a VPC….. I suspect that I’ll have to bite the bullet and buy some more RAM though – the 256Mb I have at the moment is likely to kill performance more that anything.

Plenty more to come in the coming days / weeks I suspect….