XBMC_FREAK Wrote:Everything looks good on paper have you pushed win7 running a variety of services from streaming to a bunch of clients at the same time. Also run a security cam server streaming to mutiples devices as well.
This statement is another example showing you don't understand the OSes you are talking about.
XBMC_FREAK Wrote:Network equipment becomes important and real throughput on the server OS is a must. Also don't want to get into a d%ck match but your statement is like comparing a tangerines to oranges just because they are a fruit. MS makes a specific server OS why because like you stated its nearly same but its not.
My opinion is from personal experience windows 7 was not successful in my setup I have not tried w2k8 server at home yet but my system works flawless and why break it.
Since you keep pushing without backing up your statements with fact or evidence...
What exactly is your "personal experience"? What makes you the expert?
My personal experience, you ask? Sure...
5 years at Microsoft, 3 of them in Redmond.
- worked exclusively with Fortune 500 & 1000 companies as a consulting architect, operations specialist, and critical issue support
- worked directly with the Windows Server team, Exchange team, and several other app teams.
10 years as a Consultant for over a dozen Fortune 500 companies
- designed core infrastructures, large scale server and application design and deployments, etc
Currently focused on Business Intelligence (large scale databases) and Virtualization
- just spent a week in Redmond with Microsoft engineers and architects on these subjects, including specific reference architectures encompassing Windows 2008 R2, SQL 2008, Hyper-V including server hardware and storage.
... and much more.
I'm fine with people making statements they can backup with fact and/or evidence (as I did with API and IP stack statements) but if you have no real expertise on the subject matter, at least make your statements not sound like think you are the expert. Start them with "I think but I'm no expert"
I have a ton of experience and I don't call myself an expert. Even my signature on this forum pokes fun at it.
Will Windows 7 perform as good as Windows Server 2008 R2... yes, no, maybe... it depends on the workloads and hardware configs.
With the trivial stuff you are talking about... Yes, Win7 will perform perfectly fine and you'd be very unlikely to notice any difference between the two. If you turned off some of the Win7 services you did not need there would be no decipherable difference.