According to http://bitnami.org/files/stacks/djangostack/1.2.3-0/changelog.txt http://bitnami.org/files/stacks/djangostack/1.2.3-0/changelo... , BitNami include

According to http://bitnami.org/files/stacks/djangostack/1.2.3-0/changelog.txt http://bitnami.org/files/stacks/djangostack/1.2.3-0/changelo... , BitNami includes Django 1.2.3 as of 2010-10-08. That's the latest release of Django. But even if that version were a little old, it's probably more important to get up and running with something rather than spend lots of time tweaking the environment. I'm a linux user, so I haven't tried BitNami, but it seems like a great way to get started on Windows. Using a virtual machine image (BitNami seems to have these also) under the free VMWare player is also a nice approach, but working in your main windows installation might be a more familiar place to work.