Windows Server 2008 as a Workstation
Well, its well known that Windows Server 2008 is 11-19% faster than Vista, and its using the Vista kernel. There's a ton of articles and i'm not going to list them here. But what I am going to show you is how to do it. Quoting from Alex Zaharov-Reutt Although using server versions of Windows as desktop/workstation versions over the years certainly isn’t new, the source of the latest drive to turn Windows Server 2008 into Windows Workstation Vista 2008 seems to have come from Microsoft employee Vijayshinva Karnure, in his blog “The Way I See It”. Karnure works at Microsoft India, and in a blog entry called “Using Windows Server 2008 as a SUPER workstation OS”, and in a follow up “Cont’d” posting, he outlined what Server 2008 users need to do to enable all the Vista-esque workstation goodness. Another website called “Convert your Windows Server 2008 to a Workstation!” offers a “Windows Server 2008 to Workstation Manual”. Reasons why Server 2008 might be faster include the l...