Oh come on, there was *one* Windows95.
*one* Windows 98.
*one* Windows 2000.
Then with XP they started this crap with Home / Professional
No, Microsoft has long had two separate lines of Windows products.
There were 95, 98, and Me for home users, and there were NT and 2000
for business users. All that changed was that, starting with XP, both
the home and business products were united with a common kernel and a
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While I still believe in just having 1 version and calling it a day, I'll
accept having a business and home version. Fair enough.
Vista's way too split up though no matter how one slices and dices it.
It's like they took it, put it in a mixer and let it spin at the highest
speed and then assigned random names to the bits and pieces that came back
out.
Your choice, of course, but the *only* difference between XP Home and
Professional was that Professional included some extra features
missing from Home. These features were almost exclusively in the areas
of security and network (joining a domain). You may be different, but
the enormous majority of home users had no need of these features, and
would never use them if they had them. They were able to save some
money by buying XP Home instead of Professional. That's good, not bad.
Hmm, please do correct me if I am wrong, but I do recall something about
Home only supporting a single processor (physical and logical alike) so
multi-core CPUs or Hyperthreading weren't supported? Details are a little
hazy though...
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Actually XP had 4 separate editions when you consider the Tablet PC edition
and the Media Center edition.
With Vista, they just folded the tablet
into home premium, business and ultimate and the media center into home
premium and ultimate.
With Vista there are still 4 main editions, Home Basic, Home Premium,
Business, Ultimate. The other editions Starter, "N" editions and Enterprise
edition are designed for limited markets.
While I would also like to have one version, this just doesn't make a lot of
sense, marketing wise. With the way it is set up now, users who only need
the basics can upgrade to vista for <100 USD and the users who want or need
more options can pick their version based on what they can afford.
Hmm, please do correct me if I am wrong, but I do recall something about
Home only supporting a single processor (physical and logical alike) so
multi-core CPUs or Hyperthreading weren't supported? Details are a little
hazy though...
That's my understanding too although I think that this is mainly referring
to the language in the EULA, where it talks about number of processors. You
can buy a system from any of the major vendors with Home Basic that includes
'full support' for an Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core or the Pentium dual-core
processor.
