My God there are FIVE versions.
Windows Vista Business
Windows Vista Enterprise
Windows Vista Home Premium
Windows Vista Ultimate
Windows Vista Home Basic
I find the descriptions vague.
How is a programmer to know which one to get?????
Maybe the price will determine what I can get.
JPS
Six. You forgot Vista Starter.
I found my info on www.microsoft.com then searched on Vista.
I didn't see the Vista starter.
JPS
M$ always finds new methods to make more money. :tdown
I first read it here. (http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,2180,1928547,00.asp)
Yep, the price should narrow down the list of choices. According to the rumors ultimate edition will cost somewhere around 3 hundred, starter edition - three times less.
I personally probably will go for the most basic and less bundled edition since I never use any Microsoft products anyway (besides the OS, doh!) and paying for a mediaplayer, IIS, the defender suite they want to stick in, or what's not seems unreasonable.
What worries me the most however, is the Vista`s distribution media. Is there any chance it will be released on a CD? or should I start saving for a dvd drive.
Heh, start saving for a DVD drive, the basic models are cheap. But if you plan on running Vista, then you better start saving for a new machine as well, Vista is not a light OS :)
Anything but light... i installed it on VMWare, and it's eating about 600 MB of ram, without any other apps running ::)
Sheesh! What were we recently saying about bloatware coding and real-estate being so cheap?? Seems to me 600 million bytes just to run the OS is a hugely inefficient usage of ram...