"On the line up are Windows Starter 2007; Windows Vista Enterprise; Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista ultimate, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Home Basic N and Windows Vista Business N. The “N” releases are those which do not include Media Player. "
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,2180,1928547,00.asp
Starter Edition - Lacks Aero UI, Rolodex, Tab previews, and Taskbar previews. Supports a single 32-bit processor and 256 MB of RAM. Resolution limited to 1024 x 768.
Home Basic Edition - Same UI restrictions as Starter, although the resolution is not limited. Adds support for a single 32 or 64-bit processor and 8GB of memory on x64.
Home Premium Edition - Adds DVD authoring, Movie Maker HD publishing, Photography features, Premium games (3D Chess, Shanghai Solitaire etc), Integrated Media Center functionality & the ability to act as a Media Center Extender, Tablet PC functionality, support for auxiliary displays, added mobility-oriented features. and the ability to join “Home Domains” (but not Active Domains). Supports up to 16GB of memory on x64.
Professional / N - Adds Microsoft Windows Web Server, Windows Fax client and Active Directory support. Adds dual 32 or 64-bit processor support alongside support for up to 128GB of memory on x64. N Editions will not include WMP.
Small Business - ?
Enterprise - Adds the Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA) and single-session Virtual PC as optional installs and ‘Cornerstone’ Secure Startup technology
Ultimate - Adds the Media Center functionality of Home Premium Edition that the other business oriented editions lack.
wtf does M$ need home editions for, they should of learned with xp home and the pos that was
No Professional with Media Player?
It’s all too confusing. Even if I’m getting a bootleg, I don’t need some full server package wasting space on my hard drive. But at the same time, I don’t want some limited version just so I can listen to MP3s.
When is this set to be released?
End of the year, like November with MS Office 2007…
fuuuckk
seems like this could be a mess.
Ill be rocking xp for time to come
Starter editoin will probably still cost more than $200 though you would figure it would be less given the fact that it’s going to sell regardless. :tdown:
Either way my computer won’t take too well to it I’d imagine. So sticking with 2k for now.
yea, we will be making the switch to nix for sure.
Has anyone tried the BETA out yet? I downloaded a copy of the BETA the other day and I’m not sure if I want to even try it out, or if it will even work for me.
I tried it more than a year ago and really have no complaints, but I am going to stick with my completely tweaked out XP Pro for awhile. I sunk TONS of time into getting it just right.
I installed beta 2 on my notebook. It looks very very attractive but it also take for fucking ever to install. Other than that, I didn’t really have too much time to work with it.