>>I'll second that. We should see this fall Whistler, Office 10, .Net and VS.Net
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>All I wanna know is, how many gigabytes of RAM will I need to run Whistler, Office 10, and VS.Net all at the same time. *groan*

I suspect the limit will be a Xeon box and 4GB/processor, since that's the limit under the technolgically outdated Win32 platform, but I suspect that the requirement will be larger under the 64 bit implementation, which supports a larger physical RAM addressing scheme. MS isn't being shy about memory requirements; I'd suggest that your really do need 256MB under Win2K Pro and a fast processor; some things like MSDN Help take forever to launch with less.