Windows 'Workstation' 2008: Vista Done Right?

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Pat

Beyond Smart
If you've been paying attention to the various industry news outlets you've no doubt come across the story about the Microsoft engineer advocating Windows Server 2008 as a 'workstation' OS.

According to him, if you make the right tweaks - installing the Desktop Experience feature, adding a few missing utilities, tuning the scheduler - you can turn Server 2008 into a fairly convincing Vista knock-off, one that's faster and more scalable than the original. Curious, we decided to see for ourselves just how well Server 2008 stacks-up to Vista with SP1.


So whos gonna try Windows Server 2008 on their desktops now ? :grin:
 

kalpik

In Pursuit of "Happyness"
Im already using Server 08 as a Vista replacement. Works exceptionally well! And all drivers from Vista work on Server 08 :)
 

gxsaurav

You gave been GXified
My old harddisk is on the shelf, seems like a good reason to test Windows Server 2008 in "Workstation Mode".

Only the OS overhead is reduced, however with a system with C2D E6550 & 2 GB RAM, this is hardly noticable.

Off topic : Kalpik, u got my PM?
 

Vishal Gupta

Microsoft MVP
^^ Everything is available in Windows Server 2008 but disabled by default which can be re-enabled by starting the appropriate services from Service manager. :)
 

casanova

The Frozen Nova
Thanks for the info vishal. Can I expect a guide to "WOW with Windows Workstation 2008" guide soon. :)
 
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