Should I upgrade to Windows 7? Or Windows Server 2008?

[Burton Roberts]

I am running VS 2008 on a Vista Ultimate with 2 GB Ram, and I have had to
contend with lots of frustrating performance issues which mainly involve
disk caching. The system often hangs with a message in the window title bar
of "(not responding)". Reports (from Component One) that should render in a
couple of seconds will take over a minute. I've tried "Ready Boost", but
get inconsistent results.

Should I upgrade to Windows 7? Will it be easy? Or should I upgrade to
Windows Server 2008 (which I have with my MSDN Professional subscription)?

Or should I just buy a more powerful machine?

I can't add RAM.
Thanks

 

[Jim Rand]

I got blind sided with Windows Server 2003. Since it is a "server"
operating system, you wouldn't expect to use it as a desktop - can we say
VGA with no support for better graphics cards.

 

[Burton Roberts]

I wasn't thinking of going to Server 2003, but I can say that the
application I referred to below runs MUCH faster on Win Server 2003. The
reports loaded in seconds, not minutes.

 

[George Shubin]

Check out www.win2008workstation.com

GS