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Windows 7 vs Windows 2008

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Peroxyde

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Hi,

I hope some of you are familiar with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. Can you please help answer some questions:

Q1. How is a well optimized Windows Server 2008 compared to Windows 7, in terms of resource requirement & speed? The idea is to setup a .NET development machine. For example, currently, I prefer Windows 2003 over WinXP.

Q2. Any important features present in Windows 7 but not in Windows Server 2008? (Except the built-in XP VM that I don't need).

Q3. Will there be a future Windows Server family based on Windows 7?

Thanks in advance for any help.
 
There are many dedicated sites to doing this. msfn boards have a subforum, windows2008workstation.com etc

1. 2008 != Windows 7. 2008 R2 == Windows 7
2. Performance difference is negligible now that they are on the same kernel.
3. There are a lot of multimedia related things not in 2008 R2 that after release I'm sure people will find a way to port, but out of the box they will not be there.
4. If you want to use Hyper-V, you will be extremely disappointed. http://social.technet.microsof...4ca9-8819-f942c10881c1
5. Many installers check your OS and your installations will fail. You will have to use a ms tool called orca to edit the msi's and remove the checks.
6. I'm currently running on 2008 and I'm strongly considering moving to 7 instead of 2008 R2. Since Hyper-V is so limited there's really no incentive anymore to use it. There's even the terminal services patch that allows multiple concurrent sessions.
 
Originally posted by: amddude

6. I'm currently running on 2008 and I'm strongly considering moving to 7 instead of 2008 R2. Since Hyper-V is so limited there's really no incentive anymore to use it. There's even the terminal services patch that allows multiple concurrent sessions.
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Thank you very much for the info. I have very limited use of sound and I don't use Hyper-V. Actually I use VM a lot, but in workstation mode, I prefer to use VirtualBox. Sound like Win7 is more adequate for the DEV machine I intend to setup.
 
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