10.26.06
Starter and Basic and More… Oh My….
eWeek has an "interesting" article on "Which Vista is the right Vista". I have interesting in quotes because this article is anything but interesting... The author prefaces the entire article with a falsehood and then tries to build on it. He talks about how Vista has 6 versions coming out... Users had better not get confused because they've never had this much choice before... Then I thought about it.... XP has 6 Editions...
Here's a page that compares 5 editions of XP ( Home, Professional, Media Center, Tablet and x64)... Then we can add Windows XP Starter. That makes 6.
Now Vista Starter is obviously geared the same as XP Starter... Developing Countries...
Vista Basic... Really... That's all that my grandma or my sister would need..
Vista Premium... That's all any gamer is going to need... any "geek" who thinks they know computers... It's perfect for them..
Business... it's obvious who that is geared towards and it makes sense...
Enterprise... It has extra features.... The author of the article is the Linux editor... to him these extra features seem to have no value, but I see value in them... SUA... I see it as a great SFU (which was popular) replacement... The other features have similar benefits... It's added value for buying a SA contract...
Lastly, Ultimate... The true geek may buy this for their home, but who else needs it.. If you're looking for a Media Center you don't need the added functionality of Vista.. so stick with XP Media Center til the price drops....
I don't see this as being nearly as confusing as eWeek is making it out to be... Then again... my primary focus isn't Linux... which could be why this author wrote about it... However, it makes perfect sense... and anyone should be able to easily figure it out...
Additionally, most people will be purchasing a PC with Vista pre-installed... The eWeek article was a dig at Microsoft in my opinion and I'm not overly impressed.
Peace,
HT
