I'm about to jump to a new machine that has Vista Home Premium 64 installed. I do development with VS2008. I have an Ultimate 64 license and disc so I can repave if I have to.
What are the day-to-day operational differences between Home Premium and Ultimate? I know that IIS7 is supposed to be "stripped-down" but what does that really mean?
What about networking and authorization?
The big items for me are that Ultimate has domain join capabilities, and also remote desktop support - both of those features are left out of Home Premium.
Other than that - the Ultimate edition is pretty much a union of the features in Business and Home Premium editions.
I use the Ultimate edition for my development laptops, and the Business edition for my workstations - and have had no issues with IIS on either of those versions.
Of course, it's Microsoft Tinker, a game that came with the Ultimate extras last year ;)
Other than that and Dreamscene (you know, animated desktop backgrounds, absolutely essential for VS developers), I didn't miss any features on Home Premium. I didn't know that Home Premium doesn't have RDP and Domain Join capabalities, but didn't need those two features on my Home Premium machine anyway.