Converting Windows 2008 Server To A Workstation

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Mattias Geniar, July 27, 2008

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What if you’re happy with how Windows Vista works and looks, but are frustrated with the slow performance and instability? Well here’s a crazy idea: transform a Windows Server 2008 to your very own Vista Workstation! This’ll give you the advantage of a stable computer (after all, it’s a server OS), with the ease and comfort of windows Vista.

The people over at Win208Workstation.com have provided just the guide to do so.

It seems like a very logical thing to do. A server operating system was built with stability in mind, it shouldn’t crash, require reboots or experience slow performance after a while. Well, a workstation OS shouldn’t either – but it just seems less important as you’ll probably reboot your computer once a day (shutdown at night).

So you have a stable operating system, designed to never crash and never slow down. It seems like a win-win situation. But why didn’t they design Vista to be like this in the first place?



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