I was going to hold off on posting this until the public beta drops, but anyone preparing for the drop will want to get the right hardware, OS and optionally virtualization in place nowThen when the beta drops I'll write more about specific steps to get SQL, SharePoint and your development tools installed.
Hardware and Operating System The "official" hardware or virtualization requirements for running either SharePoint Server 2010 or WSS 4.0 are: a 64-bit dual-core 3 GHz CPU , 4 GB of RAM , an...(
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