Windows 2008 performance is higher than Vista

Foreign and domestic operating system forums have the same remarks, it seems that everyone agrees that Windows Server 2008 is higher than Vista SP1 in all aspects, but strange Why is this happening? After all, Vista SP1 uses the same system core as Win2008. If you look at the system information, you will find that their core version is the same.

A simple answer is that Server 2008 provides the features users want, and Vista provides features that Microsoft believes users should have. This answer is very interesting, but it does not solve the doubts in our hearts.

According to a Windows performance research project "exo.performance.network", running several typical application tests shows that Server 2008 is 11 to 17% better than Vista SP1. And this is in Server 2008. When the Aero interface is opened (installing the desktop experience of Server 2008 can open the interface functions of Windows Media Player, Aero, etc.), why does the same code have different performance?

Our guess is, first, there may be Microsoft lying, the code of Win2008 and Vista SP1 is actually different, which requires an in-depth study of the DLL files in the system, compare which ones are the same Which ones are different.

The second possibility is that in addition to the desktop experience, Vista has more background running things than Server 2008, which slows down performance. Another possibility is to test for errors. Their performance is basically the same, but only when the test is running, the background update or module affects the performance.

The core code of Server 2003 and XP is basically the same, but many people think that the performance of 2003 is still higher than XP after opening some desktop effects. Some people think that this is an illusion. Now the same thing happens in Vista and 2008, what do you think?