Windows Vista - 7 different versions

[worker201]

i bet its like xp home and pro. theres a file in xp that says what windows adons cant be installed. all you did was open it and add an entry saying that XXX package could be installed and then install it. it bet it will be the same. get the home basic, edit this file and just run the updates from the enterprose edition and bingo, the basic version, working as well as the nterprise.

If that's true, then Microsoft really are crooked.  Selling the same product in 7 different packages is just about as bad as a marketing company can get.  It would also mean that Microsoft is still up to their awful tricks, obscuring something that should be secured, and building something that should have been designed.

[noob]

the thing is they could do that and just say that the basic version doesnt officially support the features so they stopped them being installed "For a troube free, friently experiance". no one will get the source code, not given by M$ anyway, so they can say what they want.

[Jenda]

Yeah right. That does sound very Microsoftish.

Operating Systemes

I use "OSes" phonetically: oh-sizz. And its still better than "OS's" - that can get confusing ("many OS's" or "the OS's benefits") - or OSs which can easily get confused with OSS.

[Aloone_Jonez]

That's a point the 7 differant versions of Windows won't be separate operating systems, they'll be differant versions of the same operating system.

[Kintaro]

That's a point the 7 differant versions of Windows won't be separate operating systems, they'll be differant versions of the same operating system.

Depends how you look at it, are FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD different operating systems?

[Jack2000]

Why didn't they just have one DVD with all the data
and then let you choose !

[Lead Head]

it would have to be 2 DVDs, or 1DVD and a CD, or 1 DVD and a micro CD, or 1DVD and 200Floppy discs, or 4900 floppy discs

[Aloone_Jonez]

No, it's because they can charge differant prices for differant versions in the hope that more people will use their shit. Leadhead you are wrong in saying that you'd need more than one DVD as all seven versions will be pretty similar to one another, they might be exectly the same except for a few minor changes in the set up program.

[NeoZenkai]

how is limiting it to 3 windows or programs or whatever gonna help users ? So what when they learned enough and want to upgade they have to pay more!!?

EXACTLY!!! So, Microsoft is going to tell me how many programs I can run simultaneously on MY computer??? No thanks, right now I'm running OpenOffice, Firefox, XMMS, GKRellM, Thunderbird, SciTE, and not paying a damn penny. Thanks Microsoft, but go shove it.

[HeroicRaptor]

hellsfuckingyeah!

[MarathoN]

Slackware rules.

[Kintaro]

damn fucking right

[Orethrius]

/me wonders what people might say if people knew he's converting to Gentoo

[Annorax]

EXACTLY!!! So, Microsoft is going to tell me how many programs I can run simultaneously on MY computer??? No thanks, right now I'm running OpenOffice, Firefox, XMMS, GKRellM, Thunderbird, SciTE, and not paying a damn penny. Thanks Microsoft, but go shove it.

That's the only thing they've found so far that they can hold over pirates in countries where there either isn't a legit software vendor or nobody cares about the legit vendor (i.e. China). Want a gigantic price break and still have your rig run like shit? Buy this thing.... and once you have your firewall, antivirus, and instant messenger up and running, you get a nice, big "Fuck you" from Microsoft instead of your chosen browser (chosen as long as you choose IE of course). And God help you if you need to run anything else.

Someday Bill Gates will be found in a ditch with his throat slashed from ear to ear and an Ubuntu install CD shoved in the wound. The world will rejoice.

[noob]

"Anything you can do, I can do better. I can do anything better that you." sound familiar?