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Windows 7 To Come In Multiple Versions

Posted by kdawson on from the win-7-ready dept.

Crazy Taco writes "Tom's Hardware reports on newly discovered screenshots that reveal Microsoft is planning to release their newest version of Windows in multiple confusing versions ... again. The information comes from the latest version of the Windows 7 beta, build 7025 (the public beta is build 7000), and shows a screen during installation that asks the user which version of the OS he or she would like to install. Who's up for guessing what the difference is between Windows 7 'Starter' and Windows 7 'Home Basic?'"

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  1. Re:Survey says.... by Super+Jamie · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Goddamnit, I never have mod points when there are good comments!

  2. Re:Survey says.... by dbIII · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    With Vista you need "Ultimate" + an obscure configuration utility run from the command line just to make the thing MS Windows compatible as far as networking goes!

    There are still a lot of large organisations that are not using active directory, perhaps making Vista incompatible with the older MS standard was a bit of an attempt to get people to change their infrastructure. Either that or gross incompatance on a Zune leap year scale.

  3. Re:Survey says.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It always amazed me that moderators are dim enough to mod up a flamish comment seemingly only because the author announces that he recognizes the comment to be slightly inflammatory by putting crap like "*Awaits karma burn...*" after their post.

    I mean, come on...