Validation for Windows 7 is coming soon!

I am ALWAYS so glad to install new releases of Microsoft Windows. So I have installed the Windows 7 RTM. Today (11.09.2009) I got a very bad surprise! Windows poped up a warning that my copy is not genuine with a link to validate my copy of Windows 7. So I try to validate at http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/ .... and during the validation process I get the following message:

Validation for Windows 7 is coming soon!
Microsoft constantly strives to update our technologies to help protect our customers from the risks of counterfeit software. Right now, we are working hard to improve the way that validation checks to see whether Windows 7 running on your PC is genuine.
Shortly after Windows 7 is available for purchase beginning October 22, you will be able to validate Windows 7 running on your PC to help you determine that it’s genuine.

The problem is that some win7 features have being meanwhile disabled:-(

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 on Windows 7

I have installed VS2008 on Win7 and it works just great. The only problem that I had was related to the VSTO.

Knowledge base number: KB949258MSI (s) (F0:5C) [18:27:43:876]: Windows Installer installed an update. Product Name: Visual Studio Tools for the Office system 3.0 Runtime. Product Version: 9.0.30729. Product Language: 0. Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation. Update Name: KB949258. Installation success or error status: 1603.

To overcome follow these steps.

1. Install VS2008
2. Install the
Make sure that before running the Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System (version 3.0 Runtime) Service Pack 1 (x86)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d8eb4921-891a-4b5e-973f-0b96e6ccf376&DisplayLang=en
3. Install the VS2008 SP1

This should work!