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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 ?

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

AutomatedTester
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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.

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

abmv
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What application kind do you develop?

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

Rubens Farias
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