Windows 7 editions revealed

News Reader · Post by **News Reader** » February 4th, 2009, 12:00

Windows 7 editions revealed
Microsoft has given official news about the different versions of Windows 7 that will be hitting the market - and it's even more confusing than Fista was.

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Publish Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:45:13 +0000
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Post by **fabyak** » February 4th, 2009, 12:09

whoopee

Ultimate it is then!
*abuses the Campus agreement*

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » February 4th, 2009, 12:12

The Starter edition will only be available under an OEM licensing agreement, and will restrict users to three running applications at any one time.

Just explorer, services and svchost takes up the three spots you chimps.

Seriously, get back to the XP edition naming convention, call everything that sucks "Home" and everything that is kind of good "Professional".

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » February 4th, 2009, 12:12

GIVE ME MY EDIT BUTTON.

Obviously, Ultimate is the way to go.

Lee · Post by **Lee** » February 4th, 2009, 12:23

Baliame wrote:GIVE ME MY EDIT BUTTON.

Obviously, Ultimate is the way to go.

Not really, I never got why people insisted on having the most expensive edition despite the fact that the extra features are pointless for 99% of people.

XP pro offers nothing over home that I'd actually need, and nothing above Fista home premium offers anything useful to most people.

I'll be getting whichever version my uni gives away for free.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » February 4th, 2009, 12:29

Lee wrote:Not really, I never got why people insisted on having the most expensive edition despite the fact that the extra features are pointless for 99% of people.

XP pro offers nothing over home that I'd actually need, and nothing above Fista home premium offers anything useful to most people.

I'll be getting whichever version my uni gives away for free.

Apart from the XP home thing, ISTR it only had simple file sharing, which is fucking horrible.

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » February 4th, 2009, 13:17

Essentially, there's just Home, Pro and Ultimate. Enterprise is Ultimate with a bulk licence, and Starter and Basic are for 'developing nations'.
I hope the upgrade price is low, considering how expensive Fista was such a short time ago.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » February 4th, 2009, 13:19

Lee wrote:Not really, I never got why people insisted on having the most expensive edition despite the fact that the extra features are pointless for 99% of people.

Price doesn't matter since I'm not buying it, and Ultimate comes with the most features, and, though unlikely, if I would ever happen to need them, I wouldn't have to do a full reOSsing.

Post by **deject** » February 4th, 2009, 16:06

fucking microsoft stop making more than 2 or 3 versions. one version for home people, one for business, and one for crazies and nerds is more than enough.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » February 4th, 2009, 16:13

Well each version does have a target group except for Professional which is halfway between nerd and casual user, which has absolutely no point.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » February 4th, 2009, 16:14

Christ, can I have the edit button back now?

What I wrote in the last post was purely from a pirate point of view because I'm fucking sure Ultimate will cost at least five times as much as Professional.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » February 4th, 2009, 16:17

No, you can't have an edit button. shoo.

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » February 4th, 2009, 16:21

He might. Does that work?

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » February 4th, 2009, 17:32

I could move the thread, but I'm on a sympathy strike.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » February 4th, 2009, 18:10

Stoat wrote:He might. Does that work?

Excellent, thank you sir.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » February 4th, 2009, 18:12

Bollocks.

I'm still not moving the thread.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » February 4th, 2009, 20:04

Moving is no longer needed really

Post by **HereComesPete** » February 4th, 2009, 20:35

What a bunch of tarts. I think I'll go for home premium.

In regard to xp home/pro I've used both a lot in terms of setting up internets stuff and networks stuff. I have never really had any problems with the homo version, file sharing was a piece of piss, sharing files/folders and entire partitions if needed took a few seconds.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » February 4th, 2009, 20:49

IME, it's generally okay. ish.

But I've had enough trouble with it to prefer to avoid when possible.

Post by **HereComesPete** » February 4th, 2009, 22:04

I've generally found that I find trouble with people who don't pay attention to what they're doing and then wander over going 'can you fix this?' whilst pointing vaguely at something they cocked up.

I've just spent a few hours with a very engrish router/modem trying to set up wireless. Turns out tiscali use an mtu of 1432 and a PPPoA wrapper to up the mtu to 1460. Turns out the modem doesn't see this automatically and of course sets itself to an mtu of 1500 which = 100% packet loss. I'd forgotten how to set max mtu with cmd and had taken the other modem out of action. In the end trial and error had me arrive at those numbers and here I am. Sort of. Still got some things to poke.