Windows Server as a Workstation?

It doesn't appear to be in the plans, but Jason Perlow makes a pretty convincing case over at Datamation why Microsoft should look at doing something like this. As a serious IT user, he likes the clean, simple approach that the server OS takes as opposed to Vista.

Call me an ascetic, but when I'm doing work, I want to get work done. All the bells and whistles in Vista are simply an obstruction to doing that. Yes, I know you can turn them off with policies and componentized installs and such, but why go through all that aggravation just to strip something down when you can just ship a CD that already does this in the first place?

This isn't the first time a workstation version has been suggested. Heck, it's not even the first time Jason has suggested it.

But this time, they may want to give it a second thought – with the move toward greener computing and netbooks in the consumer space, and the desire to move toward thin clients and virtualized desktops in the enterprise, a leaner, meaner OS such as Workstation 2008 may fit the bill.