Want to run SQL Server Express on Vista?

"If you're looking to run SQL Server Express on Windows Vista, you'll need to have the service pack installed. The service pack to enable the balance of SQL Server 2005 will be released Q1 of 2007. It's unfortunate to have to wait, but if you need to run it on your early installations of Vista, make sure you get the service packs."

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Use this extended learning offering from Microsoft

Following the VMWare lead of providing pre-configured virtual machines, Microsoft have gone one step further by offering a set of virtual learning platforms from which you can select an environment to further your knowledge of Microsoft product combinations. Thanks go to Scott Swigart’s for providing a location to which I can offer you a link to further your knowledge.

Go get one and switch off your need for excess

Standards come and standards go, but things like these intelligent power switches are worth their weight in copper. Fantastic little pieces of plug in technology that may give the planet a few more years to breath! What we now need is for one of these to be connected to every computer that is made so that the developer can stop worrying about making money and go and invent something else!