Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 16th Jul 2008 19:26 UTC, submitted by snydeq
InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy has been using a converted Windows Server 2008 as his primary OS since hitting a wall using Vista as a Visual Studio development platform four weeks ago. According to Kennedy, the guerrilla 'Workstation' 2008 OS has turned his Dell notebook into a well-oiled machine that never gets sluggish and rarely needs to reboot. Those interested in making the switch should check out win2008workstation.com, a clearinghouse for 'Workstation' 2008 tips and techniques. Kennedy also offers a link to a Windows 2008 Workstation Converter utility for quick conversion.
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Market segmentation annoys me and really wastes the time of those in the trenches. That's one of the great freedoms of Solaris or Ubuntu -- one edition fits all.
How many times has the average admin found that he doesn't have the right edition to enable some paltry feature he needs? (For instance, in SQL Server: data driven reporting subscriptions, database snapshots, etc etc). Probably about as many times as a hardware-locked activation key has trashed an otherwise sound DR plan...
Thanks Bill
It reminds of chatting to a Windows developer one time (I was ignorant of Windows back then, less so now (but still ignorant to on certain matters)) and I could never work out why he was running Windows server when he could run the workstation edition.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, he explained all the limitations of Windows 'Workstation' to Windows 'Server' - alot of them really stupid, especially when one wishes to test applications.
This artificial crippling of Windows for the sake of making a few extra dollars is just plain stupid - and Microsoft is repeating it with Windows 2008 with the various editions like, "web server edition" etc. To me, its splitting hairs - come up with a single price, then charge different price on top based on the level of support you demand from Microsoft.