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Windows Workstation 2008 benchmarks much better than Vista - keep XP as an option on all models until you offer Windows 2008 on them.

190 points posted to Operating Systems, Sales Strategies, Desktops and Laptops by jmxz 03/07/08

Idea: Keep XP as an option on all computers until you offer Windows Workstation 2008 so people aren't forced onto Vista.

Infoworld has an interesting article comparing Windows "workstation" 2008 vs Vista

... brouhaha surrounding some Microsoft's engineer's blog post about using Server 2008 as a "Super Workstation OS" and decided to put the concept to the test. They loaded each OS onto identical hardware, tweaking the Server implementation to make it look and act like Vista. Then they tested them under a variety of productivity and multitasking scenarios.

The net result: Windows "Workstation" 2008 (i.e the tweaked Server 2008 installation) trashed Windows Vista with Service Pack 1, outscoring its desktop sibling by as much as 17%.

You can read all the gory details over at the exo.blog site. Suffice to say that there's a new option for power users who are fed-up with Vista's sluggishness: Windows Server 2008, or as I'm now calling it, "Windows NT 6.1 Workstation."

I made the switch myself this past weekend in support of my upcoming feature on the "Top 10 Reasons (Not) to Switch to Vista." And after just a few days running this beast I can honestly say that I will never go back to the sad piece of "bloatware" that is Windows Vista Ultimate.


It looks like after the Vista debacle and Allchin's departure, Microsoft is coming back to it's senses with a leaner and cleaner WIndows again.

Please keep XP as an option until you can offer this Windows 2008 installation on desktops & workstations as described in the article quoted.

zanlok
03/08/08		 what? no.
a) The server OS is far too expensive.
b) Lots of reconfigurations are necessary to tune a server OS to work well as a desktop / workstation. It's just plain not worth it. With the same amount of work, Vista can be tuned as well.

Not that I like Vista, mind you. I'm stuck on XPSP2 and plan to remain there for a good while.. maybe until Seven.
yaknowwat
03/08/08		 Microsoft's server/workstation OS's have always been better than their desktops it always makes me wonder why they bother making a whole "desktop" Operating System line it would make more sense to offer their workstation OS's as a Desktop OS.
bbr
03/17/08		 One of many posts about xp and vista.

of course XP should be utilized where possible.
jmxz
03/17/08		 @bbr:
Yeah - but this is the first one (that I see) about "Windows Workstation 2008" - which seems the first Microsoft OS since WinNT that's making forward progress rather than adding bloat.
 
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