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:Wow... are they also going to include Cedega?

[DaedalusHKX]

In case anyone missed it, I have an error... its "two of these FIVE" not three.

Only....

[banuk]

... 7? Baskin Robbins has 31 flavors

I'm not religious, but...

[c0l0]

Seven? Like:

1. Pride

2. Avarice

3. Envy

4. Wrath

5. Lust

6. Gluttony

7. Sloth

?

I, for one, welcome our new Deadly Sin Operating (or wasn't that ... "Overlording"?) Systems.

Seven flavors?

[rfunches]

What is this, a Baskin Robbins?

Starter Edition = Zombie Boxens

[Bad to the Ben]

Here's a link to another article that gives some more specific info (and a whole lot of fanboi gushing from Paul Thurrott).

I quote: Starter Edition will allow only three applications (and/or three windows) to run simultaneously, will provide Internet connectivity but not incoming network communications
No incoming network communications? Three thoughts spring to mind:
1)MS has a hard time enough time trying to stop unwanted incoming network communications as it is. I bet it's cracked in a fortnight.
2) Won't this comms cutoff limit a fair bit of net functionality? Obviously incoming comms for established connections would be OK, but still.
3) Some enterprising cracker will almost certainly get around this. Once they do, those Starter Edition boxes almost certainly won't be running a firewall. Windows Firewall is mentioned as being included in Home Basic, but not Starter, and running a 3rd party firewall would occupy one of the three application spaces available (not desirable). Not to mention that anyone clueless enough to buy Starter wouldn't know what a firewall is anyway. If these Starter boxes are successfully cracked, and if Starter sells well in developing nations (could happen), a whole new wave of zombie boxens could arise.

Thanks for nothing MS.

Re:Flavours?

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't forget the ever-popular "Pirated Version" which will be distributed exclusively on Bittorrent.

Re:Hey Mr. Comedian - enough with BSOD

[emidln]

WinXP Pro SP2. It installed and proceeded to blue screen on boot-up and thus never worked. This is on hardware built within the last year and a half. Don't give me that Windows doesn't bluescreen bullshit. XP Home, Pro, and all of the SP-updated copies fail on my hardware.

Before you tell me its a hardware problem, Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris install and operate perfectly. This woul be last week too.

Re:Hey Mr. Comedian - enough with BSOD

[PReDiToR]

Try mixing Via chipset/AMD CPU/ATI graphics and see how long you last without a BSOD.

I would prefer value for money components but the BSODs have me back on the more expensive parts.

Re:Google OS

[SleepyHappyDoc]

I hate to break it to you, but Google runs Linux.

You can go back to waiting now. ;)