8 Versions of Windows Vista
Sarah Perez on February 18th, 2006
Why on earth do there need to be 8 versions of Windows Vista? And could the names themsevles be more obtuse? I mean, seriously, calling one version Windows Vista Business and one Windows Vista Enterprise doesn’t exactly clarify what the differences between them may be. How is "Basic" better than "Starter"? How is "Ultimate" better than "Premium"? And what’s with the Windows Vista "N" versions? "N"?! I am supposed to know what "N" stands for? Do we really need this many options?
Here is the complete list:
- Windows Starter 2007
- Windows Vista Home Basic
- Windows Vista Home Basic N
- Windows Vista Home Premium
- Windows Vista Business
- Windows Vista Business N
- Windows Vista Ultimate
- Windows Vista Enterprise
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The N versions are the no Media Player versions that the EU is making them sell in Europe along with the usual ones. XP has N versions as well and to the best of my knowledge, not one person has ever bought a copy.
aaahhhhhh, okay…
Septuagent supposes that no one ever bought a copy because no one ever got told that such a thing exists.
The reason they need 8 versions is very simple, so you have to buy each one. Each version will have different features. What’s goung to really happen is it creates a lot more people to go to warez.
God, I don’t want to have to download 8 different versions off the binary newsgroups
N stands for North American, there will also be EU versions, which have no Media Player.
Microsoft to Delay Windows Vista Release
By ALLISON LINN, AP Business
SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. will delay the consumer release of its new Windows operating system until January 2007, missing the holiday sales season and throwing some PC makers and retailers into turmoil.
The delay in Windows Vista — caused by Microsoft needing more time to enhance security and other functions — will come as a blow to Microsoft partners who were looking forward to a new operating system to boost holiday sales.
Windows Vista is Microsoft’s first major update to the company’s flagship operating system since
Windows XP was released in late 2001.
“It’s not the optimal situation, to be launching the next-generation version of Windows right after the big holdiay sales season,” said analyst Joe Wilcox with Jupiter Research.
The company will release some versions of the new operating system for big businesses by November as planned, but the consumer version will be postponed until January, said Jim Allchin, co-president of the Microsoft division that includes Windows.
He said the decision to delay the release came after Microsoft realized that Vista would be completed several weeks later than originally planned, largely because of efforts to improve security in the new system.
That delay was enough for some retailers, computer makers and other corporate partners to say they would have trouble preparing for the holiday season.
“The fact is that we wanted everybody in the industry to be ready for this,” Allchin told journalists and analysts in a conference call.