The majority of developers prefer to and, with the exception of SharePoint, usually do develop on a client operating system. This has not been possible on previous versions. Developers would have had even more of a problem in SharePoint Foundation 2010, as it will only ship in a 64-bit version. No 32-bit version will ship, not even for testing or evaluation purposes. Microsoft currently has no virtualization platform for the client operating system that supports 64-bit guests. This forces SharePoint developers to use alternate virtualization platforms (that is, VMWare that supports 64-bit guests). Or they have the option to use a server operating system such as Windows Server 2008 as a client operating system, which most are reluctant to do.
To promote development and adoption of SharePoint Foundation 2010/ SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft has unblocked SharePoint 2010 installations on certain editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. Only single computer installations will be allowed (one-click or single server farm). Initially this will not be an officially supported setup
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