In these days on my favourite RSS feeds list is appeared a new blog community, Bamboo Nation (Sharepoint oriented).
By checking their old posts, today I've discovered something wonderful and unbelievable: How to install Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 SP1 on Vista x64/x86.
Basically, the Bamboo Solutions Team has put together an installer that allows you to install WSS3.0 SP1 on a Vista system. This is a dream for me... 
Actually, one of the biggest problem for a Sharepoint developer is that if you want to develop something for Sharepoint, you need to work on a Virtual Machine with at least Windows Server, Sharepoint and Visual Studio installed. If you are like me, with a Vista pc where you do all your daily works, you can imagine the noise when you're forced to work with Sharepoint: stop all your non-useful running programs, turn on Virtual Pc (or VMWare), start your WSS Virtual Machine, open Visual Studio and start work. Bleah... 
Now, you have the chance to have WSS running on your Vista machine, so no need to change environment for development.
At the time of this writing, I've not tryed this installed, but I've read interesting feedbacks and I think that this is one of my next scheduled activities for this week: I want to have Sharepoint running on my daily development machine!
The setup procedure seems quite simple (it's like a standard WSS setup on a server machine) and this is the result:
Wonderful...
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