- Posted by Ian Suttle on April 23, 2008
- Filed under General | OS
XP Pro is great. Vista is... what was it mom said about not having anything nice to say... i forget... Horrible. Server 2003 is cool as well. The problem is XP and 2003 are becoming aged. We've been working with these OS's for quite some time now and quite frankly I'm getting bored with them.
I got a new workstation at the office (Dell XPS 720) and decided to brave the latest in OS tech - Windows Server 2008 Standard, 64bit. Ohad's Windows Server 2008 as Workstation and Convert Your Windows Server 2008 to a Workstation blog have been quite helpful. I've enabled a number of these features including the beautify move through enabling themes (hey Vista may suck but it's perty).
One note to you developers out there using a 64bit OS and 32bit installs of VS2k5 and 2k8 - don't try to mix SQL Server 2005 32bit and 64bit features. Sounds like a stupid thing to try but I did it:).