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MS Confirms Six Different Versions of Windows 7
darien writes "Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 7 will be offered in six different editions. In a seeming admission that the numerous versions of Vista were confusing to consumers, the company says that this time its marketing will focus on just two editions — 'Home Premium' and 'Professional.' But the reality is more complex, with different packages offering different subsets of the total range of Windows 7 features."
Way to inject your fanboi-ism.
>Which gives me pause and causes me to wonder ... are they really going to use the same marketing strategy they did with Vista?
Microsoft has not learned. They think that Vista is good. They even have studies that they did internally that proved that Vista is fine. These were real user studies, no fakes. What they think is a problem is that Vista got a bad rep. And that is the flaw of their thinking. They are being mule headed.
Vista like Windows 7 will be a dud! I read in ZDNet how they have X versions, but more than 80% will be two main versions; Home Premium, and Professional.
This leads me to ask WTF are you doing releasing the other ones? So Microsoft is going waste money for less than 20% sales on 5 additional versions. Go for it Microsoft you guys are DUMB!
I have to admit once Bill G left Microsoft has had absolutely no tech vision or guidance! And Ray Ozzie is no role model...
"You can't make a race horse of a pig"
"No," said Samuel, "but you can make very fast pig"
Windows 7 Pirated Edition is already out. They put it on thepiratebay or something like that shortly before they released an "official" copy of the beta, remember?
Also, it would be awesome if in a strange twist of irony, M$ would release a "Windows 7 Linux Edition", using the NTFS, so the files look the same, but having the Linux kernel under the hood.
Actually, would that make the system any more stable, if M$ used the Linux kernel for Windows? What sort of effect would that have on the OS?
No kidding. This is the most basic of basic economics. I tried to point this out a few times a while back when slashdot was busy bitching about the multiple Vista versions, but no one listens.
The kids around here are more interested in complaining about things they don't have any clue about rather than learning something new.