>Yes it does. In fact, it'll even run on Windows98. I beta-tested it under Windows95.
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Strange ....

what comes (or will come) with visual studio is MSDE which seems to be a stripped version of SQL server. MSDE runs on win95 or higher, but SQL server 7 only runs NT server. SQL7 exist also in standalone version which runs on win95, but only MSDE is free (for visual studio users).