How much can you learn at once?

Well, I guess when a person jumps off a diving board, they had better make sure it's into the deep end. This week's initiative is to install MS Virtual PC 2004 (which is very simple), .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 1, MS SQL Server 2005 Express, and MS Visual Studio Beta 1 on my laptop. I should probably sum up my experience with all the products mentioned: 0. Granted I use VS 2003, .NET Framework 1.1, and SQL Server 2000, I understand the newer versions to be significant updates. Over the next few days, I will post my findings and comment on likes and dislikes.

If anyone has any specific examples of things to check out with these products, please comment here.