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PHOENIX OS VIRTUALBOX INSTALL DRIVERS

Plus Vista 64-bit drivers seem to be pretty easy to find nowadays, which I gather isn’t always the case with XP64 drivers. If you consider 2008 to be Vista without the annoyances, I think the advantages of 2008 make up for the slight performance drop, and if you add in the handful of games where 2008 is faster and the even smaller handful where DX10 can or must be used, I think it’s a better choice (if you have both available and aren’t going just for raw numbers). That said, it isn’t *much* faster, less than 100 points in 3DMark 06 (and Vantage would only run on 2008, obviously, though I haven’t tried it), and 2% or less average FPS in most games. So it might not be too surprising that my XP is faster. Also 2008 is running a fair amount of junk (debug versions of DX, terminal services to allow VS debugging, assorted other junk at startup) and the XP is pretty minimal and nLited, being used only for running games (without StarForce though). Of course that’s not a great match up for guessing the difference between XP 64 unless there’s a handy conversion between XP and XP64 performance. On my computer, 32-bit XP SP3 is a little bit faster than Server 2008 圆4, even though the 64-bit version can take advantage of the 4GBs of RAM. To me, its splitting hairs – come up with a single price, then charge different price on top based on the level of support you demand from Microsoft. This artificial crippling of Windows for the sake of making a few extra dollars is just plain stupid – and Microsoft is repeating it with Windows 2008 with the various editions like, “web server edition” etc.

It reminds of chatting to a Windows developer one time (I was ignorant of Windows back then, less so now (but still ignorant to on certain matters)) and I could never work out why he was running Windows server when he could run the workstation edition.Īnyway, to cut a long story short, he explained all the limitations of Windows ‘Workstation’ to Windows ‘Server’ – alot of them really stupid, especially when one wishes to test applications.

PHOENIX OS VIRTUALBOX INSTALL ACTIVATION KEY

Probably about as many times as a hardware-locked activation key has trashed an otherwise sound DR plan… How many times has the average admin found that he doesn’t have the right edition to enable some paltry feature he needs? (For instance, in SQL Server: data driven reporting subscriptions, database snapshots, etc etc). That’s one of the great freedoms of Solaris or Ubuntu - one edition fits all. Market segmentation annoys me and really wastes the time of those in the trenches.

PHOENIX OS VIRTUALBOX INSTALL CODE

It all boils down in selling the same code in a bunch of similar but different, different yet similar packages.

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