http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/Feb 19th 2006 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/Feb 19th 2006 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/Jan 23rd 2007 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/
Like, "May you live in interesting times." interesting.]]>Feb 19th 2006 5:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/Feb 19th 2006 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/
can't wait for the pirated 8-in-1 bootable iso.

]]>Feb 19th 2006 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/
Ultimate Windows, golly, I've been so spoiled by the Ultimate Marvel comics that the geek in me gets all giddy.]]>Feb 19th 2006 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/Feb 19th 2006 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/
Thank god for academic pricing. :)]]>Feb 19th 2006 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/And the "Ultimate" should be like $100]]>Feb 19th 2006 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/Feb 19th 2006 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/Feb 19th 2006 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/Feb 19th 2006 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/
I was saved from Microsoft OS's Jan. 1, 2004, and I've never looked back... except when I have to check websites I develop with an old Vaio laptop]]>Feb 19th 2006 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/
can't wait for the pirated 8-in-1 bootable iso.

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That's gonna have to be a DVD ISO - if not a Blu-Ray/HD-DVD ISO]]>Feb 19th 2006 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/
*Windows Vista Home Basic
*Windows Vista Home Premium or
*Windows Vista Ultimate

when will we know the release date?!?!?!?!]]>Feb 19th 2006 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/Feb 19th 2006 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/Windows Vista Porn Edition with Kung Fu Grip]]>Feb 19th 2006 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/Feb 19th 2006 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/Feb 19th 2006 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/Feb 19th 2006 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/
I will wait for the "scene" to come out with pirated copies. I plan on keeping windows xp for a long time until they come out with a SP1 for vista to fix all the problems it will have.]]>Feb 19th 2006 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/
It's bad enough that Windows presides king over a high majority of personal computers. Now too the video game scene, next the automotive. Thanks to you people that must have the "latest and greatest" versions of Windows, they have the funds to do this.]]>Feb 19th 2006 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/
I'm sorry, but half of them won't even apply to the average consumer and probably won't even know they exist. Hell, it would suprise me if any non-prosumers have even heard about Vista. All in all, comsumers have had to deal with choice and diverse product ranges all their lives, be it a washing machine or a mobile phone. There are very simple ways to ensure that the consumer gets what he/she wants/needs be it through sales assistants or a simple tick box of features.

Before the Ford Mustang, cars were sold as-is. No options or differing model-ranges everyone thought they were happy. Then Ford gave consumers the option to choose certain features which made their car their own. Now-a-days when you buy a car you have countless models, options, features etc. to choose from.

There will still be people around who really don't care what version of vista they buy... i.e. the same group of people who couldn't tell you the difference between Athlons and Pentiums. They bought PCs and will still buy PCs so long as it works, they can let their kid play games, can surf the web and download the odd video. They'll probably never use any of the extra features offered in the more 'prosumer' versions of Vista so why would they pay more for something they don't need?

People have had choice for years. If you want 'one product that has it all' and are willing to fork out for it then there's the ultimate edition.

If confusion was going to cause problems anywhere in the PC market it'll be in hardware e.g. CPUs are no longer simply a case of which has the higher 'GHz'... you've now got single/dual/multi core, hyperthreaded or not, 64 or 32 bit... mobile optimised... also when it comes to hardware I think even prosumers are going to be caught out when it comes to HDCP. Especially early adopters who have bought what they thought would be HD Vista-ready hardware only to be told it's not.

Rant over. :)

Glyn]]>Feb 19th 2006 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/I will look identical to Ubuntu Linux]]>Feb 19th 2006 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/Feb 19th 2006 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/
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WTF is Microsoft doing? DUMB.]]>Feb 19th 2006 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/
No need. Vista will only have one DVD (or maybe a second version for the N versions). If you bought the Starter, you can then later plug in a better CD key bought directly from Microsoft and "upgrade" to Ultimate.

At least that is the plan for now. MS wants to avoid pressing so many different discs.

Personally, I'll probably go with Starter, since it's going to be dual booting/virtualized on my MacBook Pro for games only. No need for bloated eye candy in the OS when all I use it for is to get to bloated eye candy in games.]]>Feb 19th 2006 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/Feb 19th 2006 6:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/
Though we'll have our freedom stripped away soon with Vista, which means I'm sticking to XP and 2000.]]>Feb 19th 2006 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/
Can I just have the Windows Vista with the sexy UI that I keep seeing on the 'tron, and who the fuck cares what else? I mean puh-lease people, this is like when I project-managed the selection and installation of a new $500k phone sytem for a company, and the end users where like "but the phones are black, and I wanted a white phone to match my desk".

Users don't care what's under the hood.]]>Feb 19th 2006 6:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/
I've been waiting for microsoft to release somthing like that for a long time. :/

I can't imagine why they didnt release Windows XP Non-Crashing edition either?

hmm....]]>Feb 19th 2006 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/
Whatever.

It'll be OS X 10.5 or 10.6 for me.]]>Feb 19th 2006 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/
Windows Vista Typhoon...

Windows Vista Apacalypse...

It amazes me that people support this company.]]>Feb 19th 2006 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/
the average consumer will just use whatever happened to come with his PC. when was the last time you saw someone go out and buy his OWN copy of Windows?

hardware manufacturers will probably just bundle:
1. Windows Vista Home Basic - for consumer PCs
2. Windows Vista Home Premium - for Media Center PCs
3. Windows Vista Business - for business PCs
4. Windows Vista Ultimate - at extra cost

with the corresponding N version if in the Euro zone.

After all, with WinXP you already have Starter, Home, Pro, Media Center. That's four choices too. and the N versions.]]>Feb 19th 2006 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/Feb 19th 2006 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/Feb 19th 2006 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/"I got the N premium ultra 4.0 edition!"]]>Feb 19th 2006 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/Feb 19th 2006 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/Feb 19th 2006 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/Feb 19th 2006 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/Feb 19th 2006 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/Feb 19th 2006 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/
How does Mac OSX give treat you like a special ed kid? Isn't computing suppose to be intuitive, how is mac osx limiting you.
Think before you speak, Windows gives you "freedom" that is quite an oxymoron.
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Windows Vista Lite (Haxx0red) Ultimate Edition

1) Like Vista, but with the DRM completely removed.
2 Will pass a 720p signal to my DVI (but non-HDCP) flat panel
3) Will allow me to do what I want to do with my LEGALLY OBTAINED media that I OWN

The first hacker group to do this will have my complete and utter respect, forever.

Seriously, it's nice to talk about content protection throughout the path, but almost none of the PCs sold currently even have TPM chips. If Vista allows even some functionality on legacy hardware, then it will be hacked, quickly, and without mercy.

Sorry Bill, you sold out. I will pay for a legal liscense, but I'll install the hacked version (or modify a legal one myself). Neither you nor the xxAA has the right to tell me what I can and can't do with my media. Until this happens, I'm sticking with XP.]]>Feb 19th 2006 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/19/which-windows-vista-will-you-run-you-have-8-choices/
...really, this is not meant as a flame but why should you have to switch to Vista? I personally really hope a lot of people and businesses will wait before they 'upgrade' see what it really is about and if it really brings some features they can't miss (I doubt it)... I mean, why not? Give me one reason, what are they missing out of if they stick to what they have now and/or decide to put the money in some hardware instead of this new OS? (and later decide to run a different OS, allright, I'm thinking wishfully... )

Me? I'm not even considering running Vista, I'm way too happy with my current Gentoo/Gnome, but if that hadn't been around, OS X would be more than fine for me...]]>Feb 19th 2006 6:51PM