Yesterday I installed the new windows server 2008 beta OS. I was really surprised by its speed of installation and operating. After looking around I managed to turn on the nice looking graphics and sound 
So now it’s like I’m running vista, but with all the nice features of a server OS.
The thing I really like is the fact that you can say what needs to be installed like the server roles and features. Server roles already existed in Windows Server 2003 but they have been extended as well as optimized using new wizards and so on. The new thing is features. If you want to enable sound this is now a feature. I think there are about 73 features you can enable or disable.
To be honest this system looks like vista, feels like vista (actually is vista) but runs faster than my previous vista environment and you get the extended possibilities a server has got to offer. In my opinion I would advice this for developers wanting to develop for vista instead of doing it on vista. It’s like developing on windows server 2003 for windows xp.
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