Develop on XBOX 360
Unfortunately, Vista won’t be shipping with Visual Studio Express Edition installed. L Bad news. It’s something that we’d been thinking about doing for a while but it seems we are going to be happy with developers downloading it from Microsoft.com instead.
This news comes on the back of us releasing a development environment for XBOX 360 called XNA Game Studio Express. This is good news. This move will help foster a even larger community around the XBOX platform Live Services which is great – because it's a really revolutionary way of gaming. The development environment will be subscription based and cost £55 per year.
Shouldn't both platforms come with lightweight dev kits pre-installed?