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I read in a few places that MVC requires Windows Server 2008 for full support. Can the same be achieved on a Vista Ultimate dev machine or will some things be missing?
If you have worked with MVC, have you had trouble finding relatively inexpensive hosting for Windows Server 2008? Though hosting is not as big a concern for me right (I know I will find some) as needing a dev machine with 2008 Server.
ASP.NET MVC plays nicely with Server 2008, but this is not required. The main crux to not using Server 2008 (IIS 7) is that you will need some form of url rewriter, otherwise Server 2003 (IIS 6) will not know that you are trying to execute an asp.net app.
What you can do is use the mod_rewrite isapirewrite with IIS 6 and you are good to go.
Steve Sanderson wrote a good article here that details how to implement several options, with mod-rewrite being the ‘cleanest’ solution.