"Service packs as administrators of old knew them transmuted into distinct separate products at around the time Windows 2008 server became popular. The result? Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 became separate products and you paid accordingly."
Windows Server 2008 was based off the Vista codebase. Server 2008 R2 the Windows 7 codebase.
"That didn't exactly happen on the client but there have been stirrings."
Well it did, didn't it? Vista and 7.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
