Comments on: Windows 7 in 6 Flavors – Microsoft, Are You Kidding?

By: MattCatt

MattCatt — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:15:32 +0000

Next up:

Windows 8 Grayscale – Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate
Windows 8 Color – Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate

By: Rene

Rene — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:23:20 +0000

I wonder why MS does this. Surely they have a couple of marketing managers who have been following trends, listening to client requests, etc, and then came up with this strategy of having 6 versions available.
The difference between Enterprise and Ultimate is that Enterprise is only available with multi-licensing; Ultimate is for the general public.

By: Vygantas

Vygantas — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:16:36 +0000

public – general*

By: Vygantas

Vygantas — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:16:11 +0000

http://lifehacker.com/5145732/windows-7-version-l…

:-)

Yes, there are a total of n verions, 6 x 32 bit, 6 x 64 bit + server, etc, etc but to sum it up:

there are 3 versions only which will be availaible to public market.

By: Rich Chuckrey

Rich Chuckrey — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:51:04 +0000

You're dead wrong. Microsoft issued a press release Feb. 3, 2009 that -not so clearly- spells out 6 editions. (read Mike Ybarra's answer to the third question) http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/...

By: Vygantas

Vygantas — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:08:47 +0000

Yet another non sense post, there will be 3 versions of vista, not 6, read more sources not mashable only

By: Scott Jarkoff

Scott Jarkoff — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:00:56 +0000

Exactly what I wonder – why offer a Enterprise and Ultimate if they come with the same features, except Ultimate has something to do with OEM's. Makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

By: Rich Chuckrey

Rich Chuckrey — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:53:22 +0000

The Starter version seems pointless. And what’s the difference between Enterprise and Ultimate? I’m sure that somewhere [mixed up] in their marketing message, Microsoft have an obscure technical reason for splitting out into so many Windows 7 versions.