Windows 2008 RTM?
Tuesday 5th February, 2008 16:33 Comments: 1
Or is it? Why do I see it saying Service Pack 1? Presumably because it's based on the same code as Vista SP1, but Microsoft have never released an RTM product that presents itself as SP1. Until now.
It's also surprisingly easy to make it look and act just like Vista (as you can probably tell from the screenshot, I've enabled Themes), except it also supports RAID5 (which Vista had been crippled not to support). On the down side, I can't get Windows Media Center to work on it (yet?). I was also quite impressed that Vista x86 running VMWare was able to use the CPU's virtualization technology so I could install and run Windows 2008 x64.
I also came across this interesting comment on a forum post - presumably about RC1: "There actually is a fairly odd performance difference between Vista and 2K8 even as alike as they can be gotten. F.E.A.R. shows a difference of around 56 fps average on Vista vs 67 under 2K8, and a "max framerate" difference of 96 vs 112... it even defaults to lower settings than 2K8 does. I'm kind of shocked to find that I got that large a difference when I was expecting none at all."
It's also surprisingly easy to make it look and act just like Vista (as you can probably tell from the screenshot, I've enabled Themes), except it also supports RAID5 (which Vista had been crippled not to support). On the down side, I can't get Windows Media Center to work on it (yet?). I was also quite impressed that Vista x86 running VMWare was able to use the CPU's virtualization technology so I could install and run Windows 2008 x64.
I also came across this interesting comment on a forum post - presumably about RC1: "There actually is a fairly odd performance difference between Vista and 2K8 even as alike as they can be gotten. F.E.A.R. shows a difference of around 56 fps average on Vista vs 67 under 2K8, and a "max framerate" difference of 96 vs 112... it even defaults to lower settings than 2K8 does. I'm kind of shocked to find that I got that large a difference when I was expecting none at all."
Robert - Wednesday 6th February, 2008 02:23 Looks like it's said SP1 for quite a while, possibly since some internal versions of Beta 3 (I'd probably have to check if my Beta 3 says that too): http://www.expta.com/2008/01/windows-server-2008-sp1.html
I filed a bug report on this when RC1 was released. That was when Microsoft merged the Windows Server 2008 codebase with Windows Vista SP1. It's been that way in every build since then, including the latest pre-RTM build.