title: Is Vista Ultimate 64 w/SP1 okay for a development machine?
body: <p>I am updating my rig and I need to make a decision between staying with XP x64 or going to Vista x64. I do very little development, really just building products from my developers. The other 90% of my work is done with Google Apps, Skype, Office, etc...</p>
  
  <p>I want to upgrade to Vista not only because I will have 3x monitors running on DirectX10, but mostly because iTunes isnt' supported on XP x64!</p>
  
  <p>So, my question...</p>
  
  <p>With all the horror stories about Vista, will Vista Ultimate x64 with 8GB RAM be good for my development machine? </p>
  
  <p>If I can't develop on Vista, I can always fire open a VPC to do the development in. No?</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p>
  
  <p>I am using all Microsoft development tools...   </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>VS.NET 2005</li>
  <li>VS.NET 2008</li>
  <li>VB6</li>
  <li>SQL Server 2005/2008</li>
  <li>ASP.NET</li>
  <li>(.NET 2.0 &amp; .NET 3.0)</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I'm sure the software will run, I suppose I am not so sure that the OS will be speedy enough, or stable enough. </p>