Microsoft Confirms 6 Versions of Vista

Darthmalt writes "The BBC has a story confirming that there will be 6 versions of Vista. They are Vista Business, Vista Enterprise, Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, Vista Ultimate, Vista Starter. Also included are some of the differences between each version."

I'm getting Vista Home Basic

[ewg]

I'm getting Vista Home Basic just for the the Basic interpreter.

Re:Server Platform

[Anonymous Coward]

For servers, Microsoft is recommending Vista Debian Edition. To update to the latest version, simply type "sudo apt-get update" & "sudo apt-get upgrade."

Behind Door Number 6

[Billosaur]

Three versions of the software, called Vista, will be for home users, two will be for businesses and one will be for emerging markets.

Namely the emerging market of people frustrated with the other five versions...

Microsoft will not fragment like linux

[Phillip2]

I've always argued that windows is far better than linux, because it's not
going to fragment in the way linux does. It's a huge problem. You write an
app for linux and you can never tell what their system is going to be like.
They could be on redhat, or ubuntu, or any of the popular distros.

With windows, it's nice and clear. Either they are in 2000. Or XP (Home or
Business). Or Vista. That is Vista home. Or home premium. Or business.
Or richer business edition.

Think I'm going to buy a mac.

Phil

Re:Okay

[rbochan]

I'll take the Windows Vista "Half Way Decent Security Out of the Box" Edition please....

We're sorry, that version won't be available until March of 2010^H^HJune of 2012^H^HDecember of 2015.
"If you don't know where you want to go, we'll make sure you get taken."

Days Since IE Crash

[stlhawkeye]

Among my roles at work is web development. I keep a whiteboard here that says, "COMMIT TO STABLE SOFTWARE!" and it has two sections: "DAYS SINCE AN IE CRASH" and "LIFETIME RECORD." Sort of like those signs at factories that say, "198 days without an accident." Anyway, the "DAYS SINCE AN IE CRASH" is currently 1. The lifetime record is 2.

Re:Microsoft will not fragment like linux

[jalefkowit]

Think I'm going to buy a mac.

Mac PPC, or Mac Intel? ;-)

Re:Server Platform

[somersault]

It's a shame they have such a cut down list of releases, I was wondering Microsoft Windows Vista We Screw You Out Of Your Hard Earned Money For An OS That Wont Have Any Benefits Apart From Having Halo 3 Exclusivity Even Tho Halo 3 Sux0rz Ultra Shiny Professional No Default Deny Edition.

Re:Server Platform

[kimvette]

re: "What does Vista do that 2000 doesn't?"

  Notable Windows Vista features:
  - WinFS (oops, nope, scratch that!)
  - the bash-like shell Monad (oops, nope, scratch that!)

Let's try again!

  Notable Windows Vista features:
  - DRM to deny your Fair Use rights as provisioned by Copyright Law and The Constitution of The united States of America
  - shiny new Aero skin (Oops, don't have an Nvidia 6x00 and Pentium 4 2.8 or higher? Still stuck with an ATI Radeon? Scratch this one!)
  - Red Screen Of Death for the Really, Really Bad Errors