>>Second Craig on Foxit: also gives editing capability if someone sends you a PDF and asks you to print out and fax back ;-)
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>>>Does Windows 7 (or Office) come with some PDF reader software or I should install something separately? If the later, then what should I use?
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>Thanks again, I've installed it. Now I'll try SQL Server 2012 installation. May review a relatively recent thread started by Dmitry with Boris answers first, though.

IIRC you have a real quad core I7 in the laptop - build VM's for such stuff