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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8 Windows Vista Starter
Windows Vista Home Basic
Windows Vista Home Premium
Windows Vista Ultimate
Windows Vista Pro Standard/SB
Longhorn Enterprise Server (ADS)
Longhorn Enterprise Server - IA64
Longhorn Standard Server
Longhorn Datacenter Server
Windows Vista Pro Std/SB/Ent - VL Binding Service
Windows Vista Pro Std/SB/Ent - VLGeneric
Windows Vista Pro Std/SB/Ent - DMAK
Windows Vista Starter Digital Boost - OEM
Windows Vista Home Basic - OEM
Windows Vista Home Premium - OEM
Windows Vista Ultimate - OEM
Windows Vista Pro Standard/SB - OEM
Longhorn Enterprise Server - OEM
Windows Vista Home Basic N
Windows Vista Pro Standard N
Crazy. - Scorch6969, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Just one question here, WTF HAVE YOU GUYS DONE TO YOUR COMPUTERS TO MAKE YOU ALL BITCH SO GOD DAMN MUCH!!!...? I have been running XP bug free for 2 years now, only reason I had to reinstall was b/c I built my current pc I have now, and felt I needed to redo everything. Seriously though, WTF HAVE YOU GUYS DONE TO YOUR ***** COMPUTERS TO MAKE YOU BITCH SO GOD DAMN MUCH!!!...? HOLY ***** BATMAN, HOLY *****!
- FunkyWitDaSysTm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2and they're all going to be CRAP!!
but seriously, i don't know... maybe they won't suck. i hate windows in all forms, but i have to admit, after reading up on the development (kernel-from-scratch, etc.), *maybe* it won't...
but, from those very same documents, it sounds as if, to use a parallel, that vista will start out like OS X 10.0. rock-solid, but lacking in features. sure, it will have enough features to compete with OS X 10.4 (by flat-out copying them, M$ has admitted) plus a few. WinFS is coming soon afterwards...
i just don't know. and no one else can either. although it's a year off, this seems like even more uncertain than before. i liked it better when i KNEW vista would suck, than now knowing it *could* not suck. it's just too nerve-racking.... i'm going to stick with my OS X because i know it will never suck. - personman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is going to be a hoot to provide tech support for.
- digitaltrav, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Windows XP Starter Edition
Windows XP Home Edition
Windows XP Professional Edition
Windows XP Professional Edition x64
Windows XP Professional Edition IA64
Windows 2003 Standard Edition
Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition
Windows 2003 Datacenter
Windows 2003 Web Edition
Add OEM and VLK to all those and you'll end up with a ***** load too. This isn't really unheard of. - KillerJ59J, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1if(MS == dumb)
{
boycott();
} - salweem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I dont see this lasting long after release.
- toekneebullard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hear when you open the box, africanized bees come out and sting you to death. But only in three of the versions...which will it be? THAT'S the adventure!
- KZeni, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wow... unbelievable... i just want 1 version for regular use and 1 version for server...
- xedeon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1function boycott() {
var MS = "The only OS vendor with no creativy whatsoever, and has been copying since the Xerox P.A.R.C. days"
+ "Do not support a company who does NOT care about regular home users and power users. They only care about Corporate customers with deep pockets which is a fact as told by Steve Ballmer himself"
if(MS == dumb)
{
boycott();
}
} - jasqwerty, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Wow, of all the things they could have embraced about *nix they pick one of the few things that keeps most people away:
**An insane multitude of confusingly undifferentiated versions to pick from**
Good job Microsoft. :-/ - jstimmel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1if(MS){
dont_digg();
}
see-- much cleaner :P - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Linux has 20 distros, doesn't sound less confusing.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0All linux are pretty much the same. And like average user actully know which company makes which distro of linux.
- Elranzer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hmmm, out ofall of those SKU's...
"Windows Vista Pro Std/SB/Ent - VLGeneric"
... that's the one Vegas Oddds says will be most popular on torrent. - spectre_25gt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0staticten, do you really believe that your average user can install any OS? Get the right distrobution and it's no more difficult to install linux than it is to install windows, it's just different.
Also, for those speaking of different distrobutions and versions of Unix. One thing you're not acknowledging is the fact that they're all put out by different companies. That type of thing is expected. When one company releases 20 versions of a single piece of software with minimal differences between them, that's what causes confusion. - hao2lian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"if(MS == dumb)
{
boycott();
}"
How C. Real programmers do |boycott if MS.dumb|. - jholdaway, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0PS. Petard is no retard.. It is true that OEM is not a separate version. The only difference is the Product Key set. If you count OEM, then XP has not 6 versions but 12. and if you count Windows server thats 13.... 7 more is not that outrageous.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Linux has 20 distros, doesn't sound less confusing!!! LOL
Linux zealots have no brain, LOL - anagami, on 07/02/2008, -0/+0"but seriously, i don't know... maybe they won't suck. i hate windows in all forms, but i have to admit, after reading up on the development (kernel-from-scratch, etc.), *maybe* it won't..."
lol, there's no kernel from scratch. Only a 'decent' patched Windows kernel. - junkyinny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this is the stupidist ***** thing ive ever heard.
- Ratteler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great!!! 20 different ways to spread DRM (Democracy Removal Managment). They should just licence it to developers and require all programs to run from the CD with the OS.
- staticten, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hey scorch6969, i second that......
that's what i'm talking about! - Buddybot111, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What I dont understand is why don't they keep the same damn names. I mean if they just stuck with years and stuck with Home Edition then Professional Edition it would make everything so much easier, it seems there moving towards Intels product plan. Intels processer names are the most confusing thing I'v ever seen.
- staticten, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I love how you guys keep saying "it's gonna be crap"! Isn't that what people said about XP, and yet y'all using it.
as for the whole "LINUX is the future" banner! Not in 10 years!!!!
right, like average users can even freakin intall LINUX!!!!! - Laujik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Holy crap, and I thought 7 was bad enough.
- Akia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What happened to Windows Vista Pirated Edition? They should really sell that as one of their products to look as though their "added anti-piracy security" works. + digg for stupidity and for laughs
- mindlessxd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Umm... how 'bout I just switch to Linux and forget about 20 SKU's... sounds good!
- cool4u2view, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So which OEM sku am I supposed to pirate again, I forget?
- jholdaway, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There are many reasons there are many versions. Similar to why there are more than 5 versions of XP.
REASON ONE: Function; Intel vs. non-intel, 64 vs 32 bit...
REASON TWO: Form; Pro vs. Home vs. Tech
REASON THREE: Finance; Regular vs. "Please don't sue because people want bundled software, here's a version without [Insert Feature Here]"
.
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. - jholdaway, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well there will be a pro version and all else will be either a subset as home was or a superset as MCE was. The trick will be figuring out which is the pro version.
As for the DRM argument, its true more DRM standards will be supported by windows vista than any before.. It's not like XP users will be able to use the same files DRM free. They will just be S.O.L. - xedeon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0man i am a lousy programmer.. LoL sry Graphic Design is my Forté..
- axelss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Probably only like 3 of those will be used.
- matrixrage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You people believe something run in the inquirer...who has a source from someone who parsed an encoded xml file? Wow...really fricking sad people...this is degrading to slashdot (oh noes!) quality reporting. No digg!!
- agentsmithone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0that's nutz! lol
well, I have a PowerBook so this means nothing to me - ceeze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0As a windows "power" user (don't laugh), I don't currently want to run the crappy XP home edition. Most other windows users I know run XP Pro at home as well. Actually, I've never even seen XP home but I've always just assumed that I wouldn't want to use it.
Since I will consider the pro version(s) as a home user, I need to choose from a total of at least 5 different versions. If I buy a PC, I have to figure out which version of the damn OS they are bundling to factor that into the price.
It just feels like too much and too confusing. I think MS wanted to combat piracy by offering a super-cheap stripped down version and then they just went a little crazy with the options. - CompIsMyRx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I shall now read the minds of all the diggers of this story. Ready?
Here we go: 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1....."WTF?". - HckySo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yay Sharedferret! One of your stories made it to the homepage!
- rousehouse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is no big deal as others above have mentioned. It's the same codebase in a lot of cases with versions for different CPU's, OEM's, data centers, and third world markets. You gumballs above who are astounded or critical are tragically uninformed, willfully ignorant, or purposely malicious. Perhaps all three.
- gpit2286, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's weird because in any other business if a compant had that many diffrent varitions on the same product they would lose money on them. Imagine having 20 diffrent colored teddy bears and you were trying to sell them. The cost to produce x amount of 20 diffrent colored bears... I guess it's diffrent because they have so many people buying it and it's a lot easier to make a disk than it does to make a teddy bear... I wonder if any byproduct of this will show up in them producing that many "distros" or Windows Vista
- sych0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lmaonade
- SpeedyG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The password is... "support nightmare."
If I had money to put in stocks, I'd find a good tech support company right now. - IraqManiac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0oh wait, I said that last part wrong...
"* IN OTHER news, Microsoft confirmed it has settled with Real Networks, and will pay it $761 million to {cough}::go away forever::{cough} end the legal battle Real started in different regions. Microsoft will help promote Real products. See Microsoft and Real ready to settle antitrust case." - odsae, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Most people don't know the difference between home and pro. I for one just don't care.
- xGrill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0once vista comes out i am switching to mac for sure
- JohnTomato, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it burns, it burns!
1. m.s. is not going to hit the release date
2. the heaving masses don't care, you tell them to buy 'x' and they follow nicely
3. as for the from scratch kernel? i'm not expecting a bentley from folks who've been making chevy nova's - NickelSax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If you count all the xp/server 2003 and include the OEM versions, you will get a number near the 20 this list predicts for the next version of windows. So whay is this so amazing to people?
- Big-Pat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"If I had money to put in stocks, I'd find a good tech support company right now."
More like a tech support training company. - TheNik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"if(MS == dumb)
{
boycott();
}"
There was a parsing error, you forgot to define the function "boycott()". Fail. :) - rousehouse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0scorch6969 - +3 comment.
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