And the performance hits against Vista just keep on comin’. Benchmarking results from the folks at exo.performance.network determined that Windows Server 2008, tweaked to look and act like Vista, outscored its desktop sibling by 17 percent, under a variety of productivity and multi-tasking scenarios. “Suffice to say that there’s a new option for power users who are fed-up with Vista’s sluggishness: Windows Server 2008, or as I’m now calling it, Windows NT 6.1 Workstation,” Randall Kennedy writes in this Enterprise Desktop post. “At least now there’s an alternative for those of us who are fed-up with Vista but who just can’t live without Aero and the rest of the “6.x” Windows GUI.” Software Development