Chris Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 Microsoft has finalized the members of its next-generation desktop line-up. As expected, standalone Tablet and Media Center Editions are no more. After months of maintaining that it had not yet finalized its Windows Vista line up, Microsoft seems finally to have decided upon a half dozen core Vista versions.According to a posting on its Web site, Microsoft is readying six core Vista packages, or SKUs, plus two additional releases customized for the European Union that won't bundle in Windows Media Player, as ordered by European antitrust regulators.On the line up are Windows Starter 2007; Windows Vista Enterprise; Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista ultimate, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Home Basic N and Windows Vista Business N. The "N" releases are those which do not include Media Player. It's not clear whether the Starter release mentioned on Microsoft's site is the same as the current Windows XP Starter Edition product, which is a cut-rate, less fully featured version of Windows tailored for developing countries.The new SKU list contains relatively few surprises, as Microsoft had been widely expected to fold features from its current Windows XP Media Center Edition and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition into other SKUs, rather than continue to sell them as distinct editions. Company officials also previously discussed plans to offer a Windows Vista Enterprise Edition – a variant of Vista that Microsoft is using as an incentive to attract more users to sign up for its Software Assurance licensing plan by making it available to Software Assurance customers only.However, as some Web commentators have noted, there is no Windows Vista Small Business Edition on the current list. Such a SKU was supposedly part of Microsoft's Vista plans, as of quite recently. There also is no mention of any 64-bit-specific Windows Vista editions on the Microsoft Web site.More | Here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted February 19, 2006 Report Share Posted February 19, 2006 One day they'll make up their minds. Meantime I am more than happy with XP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesman821 Posted February 19, 2006 Report Share Posted February 19, 2006 I agree andsome.I'll sitck with XP at least until after the first Vista Service Pack. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadyassa Posted February 19, 2006 Report Share Posted February 19, 2006 You probably wont have to wait long ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted February 19, 2006 Report Share Posted February 19, 2006 Most of the problems reported on here and other forums with XP, were as a result of upgrading from 98 or ME. I would NOT consider upgrading unless I was buying a new computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted February 19, 2006 Report Share Posted February 19, 2006 I wouldn't say most of the problems... yes you will have problems if you upgrade 9x to XP, but XP has plenty of its own without that. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r4may Posted February 19, 2006 Report Share Posted February 19, 2006 I wonder if there will be problems with drivers, I dumped the 64bit Version as there were so many drivers unavailable that it was not usable. . . :devil: Could not get a single USB device to work on the drivers supplied and the manufacturer's were no better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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