It seems that reviewers have been so impressed with what Mary Jo Foley calls the "polish" of Server 2008 that some are considering it an even better workstation candidate than Vista itself. This comes in the wake of Vista's SP1 release, and the problems that some are experiencing with its deployment.

Mary Jo comments to this end today, "I've suggested to a number of folks at Microsoft that perhaps it might be a good idea if they took the core of Windows 2008 Server and re-marketed it as Windows 2008 Workstation, simply because it seems that a large number of companies are much more likely to adopt Server before it adopts Vista, and it simplifies things from a management and administration perspective if the Server and Workstation OSes are closely aligned with each other. This has been the traditional product marketing model in which Windows NT and Windows 2000 operated in, and only changed in the last generation with Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server."

She continues to link to another post discussing the exact steps you need to turn Server 2008 into a workstation that rivals any Vista instance.

So what do you think? Are you so frustrated with Vista that you'd use Server 2008 as your primary desktop? Do you see value in Microsoft re-branding Server 2008 as a workstation O/S? Let us know your thoughts...