Windows 'Workstation' 2008: Vista Done Right?

Pat · 07-03-2008, 12:57 AM

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 ?

rollcage · 08-03-2008, 10:56 PM

hmm interesting dude

Vista Somehow did do well .. that it should have done ...

george101 · 09-03-2008, 09:08 AM

But wat abt driver support?

**kalpik** · 09-03-2008, 09:10 AM

Im already using Server 08 as a Vista replacement. Works exceptionally well! And all drivers from Vista work on Server 08

gxsaurav · 09-03-2008, 10:41 AM

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?

casanova · 09-03-2008, 10:31 PM

What about eyecandy. Aero and Flip3D, r they available with Win 2008

Vishal Gupta · 09-03-2008, 10:43 PM

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