pcpitstop.com — All versions of Microsoft Windows Vista constantly save multiple versions of your data files, so you can use Vista's "Previous Versions" feature to "go back in time" and retrieve them. But "Previous Versions" isn't available in Vista Home Basic or Vista Home Premium. The backups are made, but you can't have them.
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cquinndApr 12, 2007
The Server product based on the Longhorn project is slated for release later this year. Your question is like asking why there are 5 different versions of Ubuntu that I can think of off the top of my head. I have Home Basic (RC2) running on a system here without the previous versions tab. I'll have to do an eval install of the RTM version to confirm this issue.
djsyndromeApr 12, 2007
So now we have an OS installing software that we didn't pay for? Are they going to buy me a new hard drive too?
firehunterApr 12, 2007
"2) no end user really wants vista. Just ask my 600 customers-(resellers and integrators)"I did (Home Premium), My fiancee did (Home Premium), My dad did (Business). That makes 3. Just because your 600 customers don't want it doesn't mean that nobody wants it.
blkmgkApr 12, 2007
You've missed the point - it's not that the feature isn't there it's that the feature IS there silently "backing up" your documents but not allowing you access to them - not even to erase them. Bet your ass someone will figure out how to access them one day when you'd rather they were gone, say in a Divorce, Custody, or "content provider" context.The issue here, in a day of **AA lawsuits fired like wild shotgun blasts, is that the OS is taking pieces of your data and hiding it. Much like the undo functionality of Word can bite you in the ass on a business memo this thing is laying in wait to bite the user. If I don't have access to the feature because I've not paid for it fine but this isn't quite that. This is more like the Index.dat files that IE uses to store every freakin' site you've ever visited - silently. What, you thought that clearing your cache actually cleared your tracks? Ooops.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index.dat">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index.dat</a>
adebisithegamerApr 12, 2007
I have no sympathy for anyone who owns Vista Basic and cannot find alternate, free software to do the few little things you may actually need that basic does not provide.As a side note, I have basic on my laptop, it does pretty much all i need a laptop to do. I was surprised, to be honest, at just how capable the basic version is given all the hype about how useless basic is. I think for about 90% of home users, basic is really the only version you need unless you want to use your computer as a media center.
darkjcApr 12, 2007
No, that's just it, you can't turn it off. If you turn it off it turns off ALL restoration services, including System Restore. It's an all or nothing deal.So if you have Home Basic or Home Premium, either you gimp your system and remove all your recovery options, or you let it eat space for backups you can't even use.
linuxmattApr 12, 2007
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macgyver2210Apr 12, 2007
People actually use System Restore? That usually just screws up my software in some fashion because it removes necessary registration keys in the registry or small files that don't seem associated with anything, but in fact are necessary for a program to run. Same issue with running registry or system cleaners such as CrapCleaner or the like. I always just turn it off to save some HDD/resources for something more useful.This is, as most 'issues' with Windows, one of those things most powerusers probably won't care about because they have other ways of doing this, like external/secondary/third etc HDDs to use instead. That way, you just reinstall Windows and your documents are exactly where you left them.At least...that's how I do it.
kazbaedenApr 12, 2007
"Microsoft, please remind us all WHY there need to be six versions of Vista? Get with the program -- there should be Vista and Vista Server. That's it."It's a tactic known as "Price Discrimination" and it is used by monopolies in order to maximize profit. While discrimination has a largely negative connotation, Price Discrimination can be helpful and harmful to the customer. Let's pretend Microsoft is willing to sell Vista with all the bells and whistles at $300. There are lots of people willing to pay $300 for it, and those people will make up their revenue. But out of those people, there are some who would be willing to pay *more* for the product. There are also those who will not pay $300, but are only willing to pay less. Microsoft therefore is not maximizing profit at the $300 price point.Microsoft has therefore decided to sell Vista to consumers at the price they're willing to pay. They can determine how much they're willing to pay by looking at the fluffy features they require. So people who are not willing to spend $300 on vista are now able to buy it at a lower price, and are therefore benefitted by price discrimination. However, people who were willing to spend $400 on vista now can't pay $300 to get what they want, so they are harmed by price discrimination. In the end, however, Micrsoft can now tell how much each consumer is willing to pay for their product and charge that much, and are therefore able to maximize their profit.Really, though, there are only 4 versions you need to concern yourself with: Home, Premium, Business, Ultimate. I don't see how that's difficult.
baloourizaApr 13, 2007
Instead of six versions of Vista, or even Vista and Vista Server, why not *one* version of the OS with everything disabled by default, and the ability to go back through and add the features you need at no extra charge? The free competition does that already with considerable user satisfaction.