Windows Vista Not Supported by Orcas March CTP

Section 1.1 "System Requirements" of the Readme: Microsoft Visual Studio Codename Orcas Setup Issues (Readme.htm) of the Orcas March 2007 CTP's installable setup version contains the following Operating System list:

Visual Studio Codename Orcas can be installed on any of the following systems:

• Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Professional SP4
• Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server SP4
• Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Advanced Server SP4
• Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Datacenter Server SP4
• Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition (WOW)
• Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional SP2
• Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition SP2
• Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2002 SP2
• Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2004 SP2
• Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005
• Microsoft® Windows® XP Tablet PC Edition SP2
• Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003, Standard Edition SP1
• Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003, Enterprise Edition SP1
• Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003, Datacenter Edition SP1
• Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003, Web Edition SP1
• Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003, Standard x64 Edition (WOW)
• Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003, Enterprise x64 Edition (WOW)
• Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003, Datacenter x64 Edition (WOW)
• Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 R2, Standard Edition
• Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 R2, Standard x64 Edition (WOW)
• Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 R2, Enterprise Edition
• Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 R2, Enterprise x64 Edition (WOW)
• Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 R2, Datacenter Edition
• Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 R2, Datacenter x64 Edition (WOW)

Installation of Visual Studio Codename Orcas on the Intel Itanium (IA64) is not supported.

As mentioned in the earlier Orcas March CTP Available from MSDN post, lack of Vista support for the self-extracting install is surprising when you consider this post from Somasegar's blog: "Our goal with Orcas is to build the best tool set for Windows Vista ... For the first time, we have a WPF designer in the product, enabling a more complete WPF development experience."

It's fortunate that Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 [R2] have WPF support.

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