Paul Thurrott
confirms
Microsoft is releasing no less than six versions of Windows Vista, eight if you count the EU editions sans Media Player.
It makes my head hurt trying to sort through the differences, but the lineup includes (in order of increasing power):
Windows Starter 2007, Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista
Enterprise, Windows Vista Ultimate. What, no Windows Vista Extreme Edition? Notice the Starter edition doesn't contain
the word Vista. Paul calls Ultimate "The best operating system ever offered for a personal PC, optimized for the
individual." Well that clears things up. You can map the official names with
Thurrott's earlier preview, complete with salient
data points. It is true that Windows offers choice for the consumer. You aren't locked into a music player like iTunes,
and you now have 8 flavors of Vista goodness to choose from. But perhaps there is a such a thing as too much choice?
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