Windows Vista Product Editions Revealed
Spinner
Birmingham, UK
If you've been wondering why Windows Vista has taken a long time to reach Beta 1, we can now tell you why: there are seven separate editions of Vista headed your way.
Source: Arstechnica
Submitted by: KwitkoFirst up, there's Starter Edition, which like XP Starter Edition, is a crippled (and lame) product aimed at the two-thirds world. It will limit users to three concurrent applications, and provide only basic TCP/IP networking, and won't be suitable for most games. The next step up is Home Basic Edition, which is really the sibling to today's Windows XP Home. However, as the name suggests, there's also Home Premium Edition, and this is where we start to split features like hairs and create a gaggle of products. HPE will build on the the Basic Edition by adding, most notably, the next-generation of Media Center capabilities, including support for HDTV, DVD authoring, and even DVD ripping backed up (of course) by Windows DRM. For non-corporate types, this is probably going to be the OS that most people use. It's similar to XP Pro in power, but with all of the added bells and whistles for entertainment. Well, most of them.
Source: Arstechnica
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For a campus, you will want the multimedia aspects of a home edition with the networking capabilities of a pro edition, and I guarantee they won't be able to afford Ultimate.
it still works for me
Microsoft thinking 'This will stop piracy, and our plans for world domination can continue. Mwahahahaha'
Everyone elses thinking 'damn, I'll have to wait an extra couple of days til someone cracks the activation on the ultimate edition'
I see maybe $50 USD for Starter which may only run Office Standard, Solitaire, and a photo show.
Then maybe $3K (? no one knows yet) for Ultimate which, of course, is the only one that will have everything you want.
Maybe $100 and a subscription fee for ??? version? Kah-Ching!
A lot of people are professional Sys Admins and/or programmers who like playing WoW or BF2, etc. Then there are those who just love to tinker, OC, etc., etc. People like this are are going more for which version?
Windows XP Pro - There may have been a lot of issues with it but there is a saying going through my mind-
"Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone."
And the funny thing is (I've read an article in Maximum PC), I don't see one thing in Vista that I need right now. It's nice, but - we NEED it why?
I'm a little tired of Microsoft telling us what we need or how it should work and if it is like this ... well, I hope we use the votes in our wallets wisely (like for something else).