Windows Vista To Come In 7 Flavors

Dionne writes "Microsoft is really milking it with this one: According to an Ars Technica report, there will be 7 versions of Windows Vista: Starter Edition, Home Basic Edition, Home Premium Edition, Professional Edition, Small Business Edition, Enterprise Edition, and Ultimate Edition." From the article: "Windows Vista Ultimate Edition is a superset of both Vista Home Premium and Vista Pro Edition, so it includes all of the features of both of those product versions, plus adds Game Performance Tweaker with integrated gaming experiences, a Podcast creation utility (under consideration, may be cut from product), and online "Club" services (exclusive access to music, movies, services and preferred customer care) and other offerings (also under consideration, may be cut from product)."

Comments

Re:strange....

[lavaforge]

It's a bad idea to split your products in most cases. If you segment your product line artificially, the you will be competing against yourself as well as your competitors.

However, if you have a monopoly, you don't have any real competitors, so you don't have to worry about that.

Re:Hey Mr. Comedian - enough with BSOD

[mjh49746]

Your FUD is baseless and you are full of shit. XP, Slackware, Ubuntu, makes no difference to me. My setup can run for months and it has, using the same type of hardware that you've described.

Here's a nickel's worth of free advice. Get your facts straight before you open your mouth and make a complete jackass of yourself. Otherwise, be like Darl McBride or Steve Ballmer and keep your absurd FUD propaganda to yourself.

Re:Flavours?

[Ucklak]

I call bullshit.

Out of the box comparisons:
To play Quake 3 with a typical Nvidia Video Card

To play Quake 3 on Linux-->

- Install distribution.
- 30 minutes later, Reboot
- Download and install Nvidia Driver
- **Edit 3 lines in xorg.conf
- restart X or reboot
- Install Quake 3
- Frag away
- Updates can happen automatically and don't requre reboots

To play Quake 3 on Windows-->
- Install Version
- 1 hour later, reboot
- install video card drivers
- reboot
- get updates
- reboot
- Install direct X
- reboot
- Install Quake 3
- Frag away

If you're so much an idiot that you can't edit 3 lines in a simple text file then you're either an AOL user or only use webmail for email.

NO Unix admin for 10+ years would ever say that Windows is easier.
If you say Linux is a pain, you aren't using ANY distribution but putting it together from source yourself but you're lying anyway.

Re:Sorry, but not true.

[hazah]

Surprize surprize, GNU/Linux does not look like windows. The thing is, it's not supposed to. And you do know that when you're installing GNU/Linux you are installing an insane amount of software that all looks different? So you didn't learn anything in 5 minutes, I'm shoked!

And finally, none of the points you made say that Linux is hard. I recall a little blurb of a test performed on people who have never used a computer before. Half were given a Winbox, the other Linux. To everyone astonishment, and now yours, they picked it up at the *same* rate.

Linux ISN'T hard, it's just different, and your Windows training makes it harder on YOU.

Re:Version numbers, anyone?

[the_mad_poster]

This brainless, angry retort might explain why you appear to have no working knowledge about anything at all.

For example, let's take this comment in which you intimate that "scripting" is a problem for "all GNU/LINUX" distributions.

Now, I'm not entirely sure what that means since pretty much every distro let's you customize things to your liking by manually choosing which packages you do/don't want. If it's in reference to tcsh scripting, or sh scripting, I'd be fascinated in hearing what, exactly, the killer difference is between the shells distributed in Slackware and, say, Red Hat?

Or, did you just think talking about "manually editing init scripts" would make you sound smart, despite the fact that starting up your daemons from init is a trivial matter for most REAL Unix users anyway?

I'm also keen on this comment, which indicates your utter lack of real-world experience with production-level systems. Were this not the case, you'd be clued-in to the fact that it's not uncommon in the least to wind up working in an unfamiliar environment on unfamiliar machines. This is particularly true if you're good at your job (I guess you're probably good at your job too, but handing ice cream cones out the window can't be that hard) and wind up getting sent around to different company sites to fix other people's problems.

But, of course, your crowning achievement thus far has been your own self-outing as the communist lunatic you really are. What really fascinates me is how you managed to tie Richard Stalin to Che Guevera and Fidel Castro, that was really great. I also had to chuckle when you compared the educated classes - highly liberal - to right-wingers. That was great too.

In conclusion:

1. You clearly know nothing of significance about UNIX environments.
2. You clearly know nothing of significance about the real world.
3. You clearly know nothing of significance about the English language.
4. You clearly know nothing of significance about pretty much anything.

Toodles.