I've been always criticizing vista for it's performance but now I'm shocked by the nice performance of windows server 2008.not only it's faster than vista sp1 but slicker and more robust than XP.of course in case of games xp sometimes outperform vista but this should be blamed upon nvidia rather than microsoft.I'm surprised by the fact that vista sp1 and server 2008 share the same kernel but there is so much difference in performance.

Maybe we should ask Microsoft to bring this nice performance to vista too.

just in case you're wondering I have enabled Aero and all shiny trinkets of vista under server 2008 but it's still way faster.

for curious people check this out

HAVE FUN

http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2008/03/windows-2008-vista-done-right.html

I've been always criticizing vista for it's performance but now I'm shocked by the nice performance of windows server 2008.not only it's faster than vista sp1 but slicker and more robust than XP.of course in case of games xp sometimes outperform vista but this should be blamed upon nvidia rather than microsoft.I'm surprised by the fact that vista sp1 and server 2008 share the same kernel but there is so much difference in performance.

Maybe we should ask Microsoft to bring this nice performance to vista too.

just in case you're wondering I have enabled Aero and all shiny trinkets of vista under server 2008 but it's still way faster.

for curious people check this out

HAVE FUN:P

http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2008/03/windows-2008-vista-done-right.html

Although Vista does suck up ridiculous resources I have to disagree. I'm running 64-bit ultimate and it literally uses 80% ram and CPU just idling, and god forbid you run a program such as itunes, with an actual 60gb library. However, despite all the unexplained software crashes (not many of them) every game has worked perfectly so far on Vista, just as stable as they did on XP Pro. Giglioroninomic

Come on We are talking about 6x performance gain that they lied about DX10 gaming. plus DX9 gaming is pretty slower than xp. media files sure as hell are running with more cpu usage you cannot deny all this. if you play an old DX7 game you will see about 50% drop in performance that is not a joke at all.

That's what I'm talking about they just lied about the whole thing to sell vista and Microsoft will not create a better OS if they can always sell whatever they make so easily.

Microsoft didnt say just get the games that we approve for 6X performance gain and I dont think your ever gonna get that performance gain in future!!

No they are the same effects the visuals are fairly similar but under diffrent APIs
ie DX10 and DX9 so it is slower period at least for now.

and audio is always problematic with vista too that I forgot to mention.

In case you did'nt test DX10 VS DX9 I recommend you to see this
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/lost_planet_demo_directx_10_performance/

Facts:
 - Microsoft says DX10 runs about 6 times faster than DX9
 - Capcom says DX10 runs about 10 to 20 percent faster in lost planet than DX9
 - Performance results according to link above shows up to 16 percent decrease
    of performance in DX10 compared to DX9
 - Also DX9 under vista is slower than DX9 under XP(DX10:58fps vista_DX9:70fps
    xp_DX9:73fps)
 - This all cant be just driver issues
 - media files run pretty slower under vista and one of its reasons under media player
    is process mfpmp.exe than you can check how it sucks CPU power for yourself
 - What is not runnig slower under vista compared to XP,really? I got nothing.
 - Vista swallow more ram and more CPU overall for same tasks.
 - I have bought this peice a ... myself so dont bash me for that.
 - Microsoft just love our $$ or they could have given us windows Xp Service Pack 3.
 - for now Vista is more unstable than XP
 - there are more features in vista compared to xp and I'm not denying it but at
    what price??
 - Microsoft Please dont lie again over this vista thing.

 I like to see others' comments about this embarrasment for Microsoft