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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."
Since Vista worked out so good for them they had to follow their 'success'. Seems like some people never learn.
*TOTALLY* buying a 'windows 7' capable pc and suing when I can't run the most bells-and-whistles-ful version that exists. Anyone else game? We can start planning the class action lawsuit now!
I was expecting 7 versions to justify the names?? :-)
~Once you have your choices narrowed down, the rest will fall into place.
Starter Edition: A lightweight version for netbook computers, that will only be capable of running three applications concurrently.
Great, so one of the slots will be used by your Virus scanner, another by the Spyware checker leaving you with one slot left to run an app of your choice!
Summation 2
I can see the ads allready : "there are 6 different versions, Collect them all ! "
Yes, I'm left. You have a problem with that?
Which gives me pause and causes me to wonder ... are they really going to use the same marketing strategy they did with Vista?
Most likely. That 'strategy' is having the PC manufacturers preinstall it. That is how most normal people get Windows.
I am surprised that they didn't go with _7_ versions. They could have then called them Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy and Sneezy. Exercise to the reader to match them up with Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate, and Fully Cracked editions.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
but they know their business better than I do
Let's see...
"It's the guys who can touch us in multiple places that are Microsoft's top competitors rather than the guys who can touch us in any one place." -- Ballmer
"I want to squirt you a picture of my kids. You want to squirt me back a video of your vacation. That's a software experience." -- Ballmer
"I'm going to f****** kill Google." -- Ballmer
Er... maybe you actually DO know better.
Rich And Stupid is not so bad as Working For Rich And Stupid.
I am surprised that they didn't go with _7_ versions. They could have then called them Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy and Pride. Exercise to the reader to match them up with Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate, and Fully Cracked editions.
There, fixed that for you.
**TODO** [X] Steal someone elses sig.
Here you go:
Starter == Envy (== Bashful)
Home Basic == Wrath (== Grumpy)
Home Premium == Lust (== Dopey)
Professional == Pride (== Sleepy)
Enterprise == Greed (== Sneezy)
Ultimate == Gluttony (== Doc)
Fully Cracked == Sloth (== Happy)
Incidentally, this matchup shows that Windows is a sin no matter the form it takes.
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
Since Ultimate will have all features, I hope it has the "only able to run three apps at once" feature from Starter.
Also, in Starter, does the idle process count as one of your three apps?
So upon release, we could see TWENTY ONE different versions of 3 OSes floating around the IT world.
I know, it's a ridiculous situation. Thank heavens the free software world would never come up with something so pointless as a vast plethora of different versions of the same OS. :)
And Cinderella as the Linux version?
Cinduntu?
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
You forgot the modern americanized dwarves:
chunky, zippy, ugly, stinky, stiffy, twitchy and
bob.
Windows Starter is quickly deleted and substituted for Pirated Ultimate in third world countries, so it's useless.
Sincerely,
A third world /. whiner (running Linux since 1999)
No sig for the moment.
They don't offer an ISO for download? (I don't know the retail process for Vista, I got my copy through the beta)