“I love irony,” Randall Kennedy begins. In this instance, Kennedy is referring to Vista devout, who, he points out, are “attacking those of us who’ve discovered that the core Vista bits run great, just not when packaged as Windows Vista.” Yes, this is about Windows ‘workstation’ 2008, alias of Windows Server 2008 tweaked to run in “desktop” mode. Among the Vista faithful, Kennedy writes, “some claim that the test results are inaccurate, that Vista and Server 2008 share the same code base and thus cannot perform differently.” Windows ‘worksation’ results lead to backlash from Vista zealots. “Others are claiming that the tests were invalid because Server 2008 ships with a much ‘leaner’ default configuration. They say that if you enable all of the ‘desktop’ features on Server 2008 — or vice-versa with Vista — you’ll see that they in fact perform comparably.” Kennedy, however, views the workstation option as “salvation.” Related: Windows ‘workstation’ 2008, one week later, and Windows ‘workstation’ 2008 clobbers Vista in benchmark testing. Software Development