Now that I'd got a Win7 installation I was happy with (well, sort of - I can't seem to totally get rid of fuzzytype or not-very-clear-type), it was time to install the software.
Typically, the first thing I install is all the browser bits'n'bobs that I seem to be needed - Java, Flash, Sliverlight, etc. So off I went to the relevant sites to see if any had Windows 7 versions. None did, so I just installed the defaults; they seemed to work okay.
Next I installed Office 2007 Ultimate, Visio, and Project. The only issue here was the Office Ultimate key wouldn't validate. Odd; I was using the same key that was on the laptop previously, and was under the impression that it should authenticate okay if the hardware hadn't changed (which it hadn't). One quick call to Microsoft though, and it activated okay - no doubt I'll have to do the same again when the full version of Win7 comes out. No such problems with either Visio or Project, though.
Office 2007 worked fine, except for its insistance on using Cleartype (you may have guessed by now that I hate cleartype). The option for turning it off no longer appeared either in the settings tab; so I'll have to live with that.
On the subject of Cleartype, why can't I turn it totally off? I hate having things like this forced on me. I think I read somewhere that 1 in 10 people get the blurry effect like I do, but whenever I look at any MS groups or KB articles, the (rather arrogant) answer seems to be "studies have found people like cleartype, so we're keeping it. And anyway, we can't reproduce the problem [of fuzzy text]". It's strange that so many people seem to post about not liking it, yet MS seem to refuse to acknowledge that not everyone either likes it or finds it makes screens easier to read.
Next came Expression Studio - this installed fine (except for the clearty...oh, you get the idea), and activated okay.
After this I installed VSTS2008, XNA3, TFS Client, and then VS2008SP1. During my installation I chose not to include SQL Express 2005, as I am also installing SQL Server Developer 2008 after installing VS2008. This all installed smoothly and worked fine.
Finally, I installed SQL Server 2008 - the only issue I had here was the number of "This software has known problems" message that kept appearing, however it installed fine, and then the upgrade to SP1 fixed any outstanding issues. MSDN Library and and updated SQL Books Online were finally put on my machine.
All the software I initially need to work was now on my machine; I went to Windows Update and installed the 67(!) updates required.
Finally, I rebuilt a DB from SQL Server 2005 scripts on my SQL Server 2008 installation, and compiled a website I was working on. All worked fine.
So that's the basic install and development system up and running. Next I'm going to look at installing many of the tools I also use during development, and Nero (which should be interesting).
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