It’s been a week since Randall Kennedy junked Windows Vista SP1 and opted, instead, for Windows Server 2008 tweaked to run as a workstation. “All of my core applications are working flawlessly, including SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2008 and Office 2007,” he writes in Windows “workstation” 2008: One week later. “In fact, outside of the multimedia issues I mentioned in my previous entry, I’d be hard pressed to find fault with the experience.” Visual Studio flies, VMware runs better, and the OS never feels sluggish. “The really bizarre aspect to my “Workstation” 2008 experience is that, from a technical standpoint, it doesn’t make sense — or at least, it shouldn’t. With the same kernel (as of Vista SP1), the OSes should in fact behave similarly.” Related: Windows “workstation” 2008 clobbers Vista in benchmark testing. Software Development