Windows 7 vs. Windows Server 2008 for a development machine

Question

hi,

I finally got some time on my hand to upgrade my main dev. machine from Windows XP SP3. Right now I have licenses to both Windows 7 Enterprise Edition and Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition.

I mainly do web development (ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, RIAs .. etc)

Which is a better option for a 24/7 active development machine ?

Answer 1

Windows 7 would be fine. Windows 2008 would look heavy a bit.

Answer 2

I develop on Windows 7 machine for Windows 2008 because they both have IIS7.5 installed on them.

Answer 3

What application kind do you develop?

For some applications, like Sharepoint, you'll need a Windows 2008 box.

Answer 4

This might be a good question for Stackoverflow's sister site Server Fault

Answer 5

I would use 7 for the development, then create a Server2008 VM on that (or deploy to a real box if you've got one) to use as a test server so that you can test deployment of your app and see your app function from both ends.