Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 3rd Feb 2009 20:25 UTC
One of the biggest problems with Windows Vista was its rather convoluted and complicated SKU scheme, where there were far too many different versions of Vista to figure out. To make matters worse, the Home Basic version left out several defining parts of the operating system leaving customers with a sense of being lured in by certain features that in the end turned out not to be there. With Windows 7, the company will still offer a myriad of different versions, but according to Microsoft Senior Vice President Bill Veghte, it will be a lot less problematic than with Vista.
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Member since:2005-06-29
What problem? There was never a problem to begin with. In server world this might work, if you want to serve only web, or mail or databases (but those editions have to be really cheap then)... But for the client it doesn't make (much) sense.
Edited 2009-02-03 21:22 UTC
Member since:2008-03-17
indeed. It always p***ed me off when the version of windows that came with my computer couldn't join domains. I'd have to buy a second copy in order to do that.
I said f**ck it. I'll just join AD with linux. Some mangling later and tada....far cheaper and I didn't have the to suffer that irritating feeling that I had been scammed.
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The problem with Vista was customer confusion, now with 7, they only see "Home Premium" and "Professional" in retail, that is two editions, like XP with clearly set target audience.
Problem solved.