nrg_alpha Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Oh noes.. more versions to choose from... I liked it better in the days when the choice was between home and professional editions... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcombs_31 Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 I don't know what the big deal is, people should be used to it by now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrg_alpha Posted February 4, 2009 Author Share Posted February 4, 2009 For me personally, I think I like the approach of 1 or 2 versions. Keeping things somewhat simpler. I don't see the necessity of a plathora of versions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=659 Here it's reported that for regular people there will only be three ones to choose between. Edit: The engadget link posted by nrg_alpha also says only three seeing as "Enterprise" is "available only in volume licenses" and that "Home Basic" is "only available in emerging markets" and "Starter" is otherwise not available normally. That leaves home premium, pro, and ultimate left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrg_alpha Posted February 4, 2009 Author Share Posted February 4, 2009 Yeah, three isn't bad.. it looks less cluttered when having to deal with home, professional or enterprise.. I guess with limited accessability for the others, it helps simplify things.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Anyway, for anyone interested: http://www.pcworld.com/article/158861/windows_7_to_ship_in_six_different_versions.html The 3-programs-at-a-time version sounds terrible. "Windows 7 Ultimate (limited availability, includes everything)" Wonder why it will have limited availability. Weird. And uhhh, I didn't realize the Vista equivalents were anywhere near that expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serverman Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 $320?! did anyone tell them we are in an econmic recession? plus you can buy a new system(no OS) for that much. as for your worst nightmare has come to pass I don't know about that. until recently all Linux distros had like 3 different installers (not counting the ones for each platform) before DVDiso's became large you would have like 5 Cds if they put KDE and Gnome and XFCE so they made different ISOs for each desktop environment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 On newegg, retail Vista Ultimate is $236, but I guess when it first came out it may have been $320. The OEM version is $180. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Limited to 3 simultaneous applications WTF? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 The way I understand it, it's made for poor people or Netbooks (poor people because they're poor obviously, and Netbooks because... well.... I don't quite know why Netbooks). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Netbooks because they may not have the processing power. Still, I should have the power to tell my PC to overwork itself. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Yeah, that was what I was getting at with the not sure thing. Also, 3?! 3!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tibberous Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 I still haven't switched to Vista. I use about 15 programs, and so long as most of them continue to work, it doesn't make sense to switch to a slower, buggier, OS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 As far as buggier goes, I don't think Vista is what you would call buggy any more. I don't think it was ever buggy for the most part. If you have XP, might as well wait until Windows 7 comes out now lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 I don't think it was ever buggy for the most part. Thinking about it, I would agree. All the problems people had were because no one had drivers for Vista, which would be a problem for any new operating system on a PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 I haven't had more problems with Vista than any other OS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 I don't think it was ever buggy for the most part. Thinking about it, I would agree. All the problems people had were because no one had drivers for Vista, which would be a problem for any new operating system on a PC. Although I think even MS has realized that they could have worked much more openly with hardware companies as far as drivers go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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