{"id":137,"date":"2008-03-25T09:23:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T09:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2008\/03\/25\/review-using-windows-server-2008-on-a-pc.aspx"},"modified":"2008-03-25T09:23:27","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T09:23:27","slug":"review-using-windows-server-2008-on-a-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Review: Using Windows Server 2008 on a PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, deciding which IT course to follow can feel like a U.S. presidential election cycle: You never have more than two options, and neither one seems quite right. You find yourself wishing there was a viable third-party candidate, if only to keep the two front-runners on their toes.  <\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, in the case of Windows XP versus Vista, a third way has indeed emerged. Thanks to the musings of a (hopefully still employed) Microsoft engineer, some disaffected Vista users have discovered that Windows Server 2008, properly configured and tweaked to be more Vista-like, makes a killer workstation OS. In fact, recent benchmark testing shows that Server 2008 runs circles around Vista (up to 17 percent faster) at a variety of business productivity and client\/server computing tasks.  <\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;articleId=9070658&#038;source=rss_topic125\" href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;articleId=9070658&#038;source=rss_topic125\">http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;articleId=9070658&#038;source=rss_topic125<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, deciding which IT course to follow can feel like a U.S. presidential election cycle: You never have more than two options, and neither one seems quite right. You find yourself wishing there was a viable third-party candidate, if only to keep the two front-runners on their toes. Fortunately, in the case of Windows XP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}