Tell me it isn't true about Windows Vista

I heard on This Week In Tech that Microsoft is contemplating something like seven skus for Windows Vista. Please tell me this isn't true. If it is, Dvorak is right... Microsoft really is going to the crapper. I can't believe anyone could sell the idea to Steve and Bill and they'd actually agree to it.

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  • Actually, there already are 6 skus of Windows XP....



    1) Windows XP Starter Edition

    2) Windows XP Home Edition

    3) Windows XP Professional Edition

    4) Windows XP Tablet Edition

    5) Windows XP Media Center Edition

    6) Windows XP 64-bit Edition (which has IIS6 instead of IIS5 and some other differences from all of the above ones)



    One frustration with the current XP SKU structure is that there is no "all in one" sku. You can get media edition, but can't use it to join a corporate domain. You can get tablet, but you can't use media center stuff on it. One of the goals with the new Vista plan is to rationalize this quite a bit.

  • "Contemplating" being the operative word. The "anyone" hopefully being the consumer, LOL.

  • But to this day with XP it's stupid. The whole home/professional thing appears as nothing more than a money grab. Make a server product, make a client product, and support media center and tablet functions where it makes sense.

  • eindows vista is crap. I bought it on a new pc, and its heading back to the company windows xp will walk right around it with less memory and processor.

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