Star Windows 'Workstation' 2008: Vista Done Right?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Mar 2008 21:06 UTC, submitted by Research Staff
Windows "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." In addition, ExtremeTech has an article on Vista SP1 performance.
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RE[5]: Same OS
by vondur on Thu 6th Mar 2008 15:55 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: Same OS"
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The people who are telling you it's DRM are misinformed (perhaps intentionally). For the components they share, Vista and 2k8 have the exact same binaries. There are obviously components that are present in the client that aren't in the server and vice-versa. But there is no specific 'DRM' component, so it's not one of those things.




“Since [encryption] uses CPU cycles, an OEM may have to bump the speed grade on the CPU to maintain equivalent multimedia performance. This cost is passed on to purchasers of multimedia PCs” — ATI.
This is the DRM that stops high def videos from playing at full res on non HDCP enabled monitors/video cards
this comes from:
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

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