Evidence Of Five Windows 7 Retail Versions Surprises No One
This is not news anybody wants, but it’s also maybe the least surprising news you’ll hear all day: it looks like there will be at least 5 retail packages for Windows 7.
This screengrab, which purports to be from a fresh Win 7 beta build number 7025, shows Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Business and Ultimate choices. We all know that the current beta is already labelled Windows 7 Ultimate, so unless MS is going nuts with the superlatives, Ultimate does imply the availability of something “less-than-Ultimate.”
And, since Microsoft hasn’t said anything to make us believe they’d be changing their repackaging fetish we’ve seen with XP and Vista, this doesn’t seem at all surprising. Sad, but not unexpected. [PC Beta - Thanks, Pete]
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You can ignore the “Starter” edition as it is only for emerging markets, ie poorer countries.
4 editions of 7 seems appropriate when you look into what each one offers. I’m not going to put anything above Home Basic onto a netbook. And Home premium is fine for most regular users. Business is self explanitory, and Ultimate is for the people who want to pay a premium for everything as well as tablet support.
You get what you pay for, for what your system is capable of, for what your system is being used for, for what you want to pay for. Lets just hope this time around Microsoft is more clear about it all.