Since a few days Microsoft offers pre-configured virtual machines that can be loaded into Virtual PC or Virtual Server. That way you only need to download it from the Microsoft site, load it into VPC/VS and use it! I wonder what will be faster: "donwloading the pre-configured VHDs" or "installing and configuring it yourself"

 

You can get the VHDs here (download location and searching for VHD):

It is a shame they do not offer stuff for VMware, which I use a lot! Can we blame them?

 

Cheers,

Jorge

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