| How Vista Will interact With Longhorn Server |
| Friday, 23 February 2007 by Michel Roth | |||
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"When Microsoft decided to develop Windows Vista, they went back to their roots. Windows Vista and Longhorn Server were developed simultaneously, using the same operating system kernel. In fact someone from Microsoft explained to me that differences in the two operating systems (aside from applets, consoles, etc.) were only introduced into the code after Windows Vista released the Beta 2 stage of development. This ensured that the underlying code base was stable before server specific code was introduced. Being that Longhorn Server and Windows Vista share a common kernel and user interface (although Aero is disabled by default in Longhorn Server), it only makes sense that the two operating systems would work well together. However, a more compelling reason for deploying Longhorn Server and Windows Vista together is that doing so can reduce your support costs. Another performance gain involves accessing network resources. Both Longhorn Server and Windows Vista are designed to index the contents of the machine’s hard drive. This means that document searches are now a lot faster, whether the search is being performed locally or across the network. Additionally, Vista is designed to cache server resources so that even if a server drops offline, users can continue to work and are often oblivious to the server problems. When the server comes back online, changes made to cached content are automatically applied to the data that is saved on the server." Read the entire article here.
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