There is a problem I have seen when installing Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Edition RC On Windows XP with SP3, the screen just disappears in the middle of the installation.
At first I have seen it in one of my clients computers, the problem repeated itself on two computers both were Dell computers.
What we did is upgrading the Windows version to windows 7 and the installation succeeded.
Lately I am seeing the same problem on computers of different customers coming from different manufactures, same problem and same solution upgrade to Windows 7 and reinstall.
Some more problems I have seen in the installation is with Silverlight installation error, but it ended with the error all worked fine after the installation.
Besides these errors the RC version is a lot faster and much more stable in big projects.
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