[CS-FSLUG] Windows 7: The beginning of the end of the "Wintel" duopoly?

[Frank Bax]

Nathan Thompson wrote:
> Frank Bax wrote:
>> Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
>>> If one wants a reliable Windows, though, one should run Server 2008.  
>>> Runs all the same apps, faster, more stably, more RAM available.  
>>> More expensive, too, of course.
>>
>> Server 2008 uses the same kernel as Vista SP1 - where do the 
>> improvements you claim come from?  Are you comparing Server 2008 to 
>> original Vista release?
>>
> The RTM for Vista was late in 2006, the RTM for Windows Server 2008 was 
> in February 2008 according to Wikipedia. I'm not saying Microsoft fixed 
> most of the flaws in that time, but they would have had time to tweak 
> the kernel, services and bundled applications. More importantly it 
> doesn't run a lot of the same services and software by default that 
> Vista does simply because it's intended as a server OS. Not that I'm for 
> the idea of using Windows Server 2008.


RTM for Vista SP1 and Server 2008 were the same day (4-Feb-2008); 
because they are the same code.