vista sp1 and server 2008 hotfixes

[zed260]

are interchangeble most of the time

Edited March 13, 2008 by zed260

[knacki99]

so what? Can you install Server 2008 hotfixes on Vista SP1 machines? I guess not.

[zed260]

KB948720 and KB949425

 

can be installed on vista sp1

 

 

so all the hotfixes that are server 2008 specic so far can be installed on vista sp1

 

 

for what its worth vista sp1 and server 2008 share so much code that if you run winver.exe on server 2008 it shows it already has service pack 1

Edited March 13, 2008 by zed260

[xable]

Thanks for the info zed.. It`s intresting microsoft are being so "flexible"

[zed260]

the actually reason behind it is that its easier to maintain

 

 

use to with nt 4 server and client shared same code same with windows 2000 and windows server 2000

 

however office and home pcs were different codebases so with windows xp they merged these codebases and had planed to make the server client and home user pc share same codebase

 

however what happened was mid way though releasing server 2003 there was major security bugs discovered and they changed there plans and the codebase begen to deverge with windows xp service pack 2 while the server edition had been updated for more secuity

 

and then vista was released microsoft had planed to try and finaly get the codebases in sync agin so that they only had to fix bugs once for server and client os

 

service pack 1 main goal was to get vista and server 2008 sharing the same code

 

 

so in my opinion we only need one forum for server 2008 and vista 98 percent of the hotfixes will be compatible between them with the exception of some files like media center for client and active directory for server which when you attempt to appley should say this update does not apply to your system

Edited March 13, 2008 by zed260