Abstract

With the release of the Windows Vista client operating system and Windows Server 2008 network managers face the prospect of integrating these next-generation operating systems into their current networks alongside computers running Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

To verify the benefits of the improved networking implementation, Microsoft commissioned The Tolly Group to quantify the improvements in the network throughput and task completion time when executing common tasks in a variety of scenarios. Importantly, tests were run using key combinations of legacy and new client and server operating systems to determine benefits available to customers.

This paper is an updated version of document 207180 from 2007 which was conducted using a pre-production version of Microsoft code.