It's official, 8 different flavors of Windows Vista
Posted by salmonela 1001 Day ago, There are 22 comments, 22772 views
Because choices are good? Or because there would be more money to be milked? Perhaps the victims of having 8 different flavors of Windows Vista are the software vendors, who would have to explain the differences between each edition to their customers.Here's a quick rundown of the 8 product editions:
Windows Starter 2007 - This edition does not include the Aero graphical user interface, hence it’s not Vista-branded. And there’s no 64-bit edition, no networking, no Fast User Switching, no DVD Authoring, no gaming common controller support, and no image editing with enhanced touchup, and only three applications/windows are allowed to run simultaneously. Good only for really basic users with low budgets.
Windows Vista Home Basic - This is the true baseline version of Windows Vista; think Windows XP Home Edition. You can expect to find features such as Windows Firewall, Windows Search, Photo Library and etc. And every other edition below will be based on this edition. Good for general consumers or even the kids.
Windows Vista Home Basic N - Same as the Home Basic Edition, but minus the Windows Media Player. This edition is for the Europeans as they have antitrust rulings against Microsoft which does not allow the player to be bundled.
Windows Vista Home Premium - This edition includes features such as Media Center Extender support, Cable Card support, DVD authoring and Tablet PC functionality. This edition is best suited for notebooks and networked home desktops, but it’s probably insufficient for the geeks.
Windows Vista Business - Analogous to the Windows XP Professional, this will probably be the most widely used edition in corporate environments. This edition allows joining of domains, non-Microsoft networking (Netware, etc), Remote Desktop and Microsoft Windows Web Server. Most geeks and IT professionals will want to go for this edition.
Windows Vista Business N - Just like Home Basic N Edition, this one is meant for the Europeans and comes with no media player.
Windows Vista Enterprise - This edition will come with several new features such as Virtual PC, multi-language user interface (MUI) and Secure Startup (BitLocker Drive Encryption).
Windows Vista Ultimate - This one is going to be the most expensive, most feature-packed, and perhaps the most pirated edition of Vista. It’ll include new and unique features such as Game Performance Tweaker, Podcast creation utility, online “Club” services and privileged product support. This edition will be perfect for Windows fanboys.
So which one’s for you?
News source: winsupersite.com
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There are 22 additional comments
Re: It's official, 8 different flavors of Windows Vista by
thexfile on 2006-02-22 08:40:14
I'm staying with XP Pro :)
Re: It's official, 8 different flavors of Windows Vista by
sheayong on 2006-02-22 08:58:05
i will stay at win2k:)
Re: It's official, 8 different flavors of Windows Vista by
timotei740 on 2006-02-22 09:04:24
I will use SuSE Linux
RE : by
alfa1 on 2006-02-22 10:05:12
Will Beta Windows Vista Business once it is pirated, don't know if I will make a switch
Re: It's official, 8 different flavors of Windows Vista by
SUP3R on 2006-02-22 14:07:00
Bring the Ultimate Edtion on...pmpl
Re: It's official, 8 different flavors of Windows Vista by
birk123 on 2006-02-22 15:03:37
Why does the Linux-guys have a need to tell everybody that they're using Linux? This is a WINDOWS article, not Linux?
The only reason you're still using win xp/2k is that no rtm is out yet :P
Re: It's official, 8 different flavors of Windows Vista by
vegetunks on 2006-02-22 15:45:19
well... i cant wait for windows vista ultimate. i've been playing with the alphas and beta since they were on the torrent networks. i have to say. Microsoft have more or less pulled it off this time. (but only if you have a super powerful system) lol
Re: It's official, 8 different flavors of Windows Vista by
Macko on 2006-02-22 15:47:52
Will stay with DOS 6.22 :)
Re: It's official, 8 different flavors of Windows Vista by
nongp on 2006-02-22 18:13:35
i'll go for the most pirated ;) kidding aside i think the windows 95 and windows 98SE still the best windows os.
RE : by
birk123 on 2006-02-22 20:00:43
What exactly does Win95 & Win98SE have, that's WinXP doesn't?
Re: It's official, 8 different flavors of Windows Vista by
salmonela on 2006-02-22 20:17:02
Licensing Feature:
Windows Activation Services:
Str HomeN HomeB HomeP BusN Bus Sm Bus Ent Ult
Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No
What's that smell? The nose knows.
Re: It's official, 8 different flavors of Windows Vista by
netstorm on 2006-02-22 22:04:15
so .... frankly speaking .... which version won't crash???
RE : by
nancy on 2006-02-23 06:14:34
yes. but waiting big mouth like u guys.. and smart like u guy make it??
the NEW WINDOWS isss windows stupid haaaaaaa???
Re: It's official, 8 different flavors of Windows Vista by
JoDor on 2006-02-23 00:00:30
i will go with Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit, to all
you Linux fans im a gamer and as far as i can tell there is not one
linux dis that can play very game out there ??? so until that day comes
????? windows is the way i guess. And about crashs, linux dosent
crash??? of corse it dose like any other OS out there.
Linux lol hehehehe yeah sure!
Re: It's official, 8 different flavors of Windows Vista by
bluecomet on 2006-02-24 14:16:08
Windows Vista Ultimate looks better, but we don't the system requires, what kind of PC can be with the new windows systems ? do you have more detail to share with us here? thanks anyway
Re: It's official, 8 different flavors of Windows Vista by
Nightshade on 2006-02-24 16:44:52
And eight different ways to pirate the most pirated software in existance as well. Man the pirates are definately going to have a field day with this one. They will be in pirate heaven.
Re: It's official, 8 different flavors of Windows Vista by
francis on 2006-04-22 00:02:15
Warning by
fsgm on 2006-04-24 15:13:09
I have windows vista beta2 (Build 5342) installed in my notebook and win ever I but the windows in standby I can't make it work again, because it will give me a message (Hardware malfunction) and then I can't do any thing but switching off manualy.
I'm sure nothing wrong with my hardware and all the drivers were installed.I searched for salvation for my problem and I find nothing.and I have many problems with some important softwares that can't be installed like (Kaspersky Anti-Virus v6.0.0.299)
this windows have many good features but I can't deal with these problems
Re: It's official, 8 different flavors of Windows Vista by
rajiv0 on 2006-12-11 03:39:31
HOW MUCH GOOD IS IT in memory usage + resource usage etc?
I mean vista - all editions ??
Not talkin of min. memory requirements told on vista site, but actual users experience - how Lightweight or heavy is VISTA usage - comparison to XP Pro SP2???
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