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Microsoft Confirms 6 Versions of Vista
Darthmalt writes "The BBC has a story confirming that there will be 6 versions of Vista. They are
Vista Business, Vista Enterprise, Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, Vista Ultimate, Vista Starter. Also included are some of the differences between each version."
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
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Um, that's not what a vista is
I've still got to be sold on Vista. It seems to offer less new stuff than XP, and at least most people got a benefit from going from 9x to XP, in that it was a far better OS underneath.
"We don't want customers to be forced into buying something that isn't going to meet all their needs," said Barry Goffe, Microsoft's director of Windows client product management.
Most customers get what is bundled with their computer. Most do not know if they have Windows 98, ME, or XP. Customers will be forced to buy what is the most economical for the OEM's to include with their machines.
Computers were supposed to be "multi-purpose" machines. Now that hardware is leveling, the differences are all in the software. The purpose of these levels is marketing and price control. Do not believe for a minute that this is about providing "choice" to the consumer.
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Apple hasn't released a retail version of Tiger, and Apple has frequently bundled versions targeted for the system they're bundled with... it usually turns out they're bootable on more than just that model, but it's not like a retail version.
If you count customized bundles as separate versions, there's thousands of versions of XP.
So really there's only two versions, Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server.
Has Apple stated that Leopard will be released in two versions or in a single "Universal" package?
Except it's likely to be like XP, where the only useful version for anyone to have (outside of servers) will be the XP Pro corporate version. Of course, everyone will get starter or basic with their new PCs so they'll have to buy (or pirate) the good one.
The only useful version is XP Pro Corp. Edition? No, not really. XP Home was fine for home users (I know, crazy, huh?). Really, XP Home couldn't join a domain, couldn't use more then one processor (but it could use HyperThreading if available on the processor), didn't have IIS, didn't have Dynamic Disk support, and ASR (Which is about the only feature that would have been nice, but really, most people would just say "huh?"). XP Home worked well, and saved the customer a bit of cash over XP Pro. If it allowed them to offer lower prices to their customers, more power to them. I know a lot of people still running XP Home just fine.
You may not have been happy with it.. maybe you have multiple processors, maybe you have a domain at home, but really, there are tons of XP Home machines out there that really have no need for Pro.
And the Corp. edition just meant no activation, other then that, I'm relatively certain there were no differences between it and regular XP Professional.
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