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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Windows Netbook should be the same as Windows Desktop. People have been running the beta, which is the Ultimate edition, just fine on netbooks.
Unfortunately Microsoft, in it's infinite wisdom, may disagree. According to this article:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/246562/windows-7-to-come-in-six-flavour...
from PC Pro magazine, the crippled Starter edition is "A lightweight version for netbook computers, that will only be capable of running three applications concurrently."
Yikes! Looks like it's Linux or death for netbooks then. Microsoft have to learn that this is not a market they can kill.
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2007-01-13
How about just having two versions called
a) Windows Desktop
b) Windows Server