What is the difference between the versions!?

[foozball3000]

I'm sure that I'm not the only one with this ---> expression when looking at Microsoft Products.

In this case, more specifically, the Win 7 Editions.
What's the difference between Home, Home Premium, Professional and Ultimate??
(Thinking back on Mr.Shuttleworth's quote about Jaunty, "There will only be one edition launched, the Ultimate edition")

 

[Tassidar]

http://store.microsoft.com/Windows7/Compare

 

[adamr]

Home comes in a green box, professional in a blue box and ultimate in a black box

 

[jem]

better comparison... http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-31012_7-10379487-10355804.html

 

[kilobits]

Home comes in a green box, professional in a blue box and ultimate in a black box

LOL.... very amusing! BUT true!

 

[foozball3000]

http://store.microsoft.com/Windows7/Compare

IS THAT IT!!!??
FFS! I'm buying the home edition!

Run many existing Windows XP productivity applications in Windows XP Mode.2

Give it 2 months and you can download an app to do that.

 

[MadMailMan]

Basically it comes down to cost.

Home: Costs lots.
Home Premium: Costs lots mote lots.
Professional: Costs so much you need a business to pay it off.
Ultimate: You will be paying in blood and tears.

Oh and they all cost a fortune in bandwidth for the updates.

 

[greggpb]

the doman joining is so important for even home users

 

[foozball3000]

Home basic it is then. As long as it can run Visual Studio without ANY hassles... I'll be fine.
I just use windows for programming, the odd game, and winamp (There's no Linux equivalent )

 

[Tassidar]

winamp (There's no Linux equivalent )

XMMS?

 

[foozball3000]

XMMS?

Still haven't tried that one yet... but all the other popular ones. ( I had a whole thread about it)

 

[pmbellis]

@jem ... Thanks.

"Maximum physical CPUs supported" ... What about Dual Core CPUs, does that count as 1 or 2?

Anyone know?

"Remote Desktop Host" ... hmm ... will VNC, etc run on Windows 7 64 bit?

 

[jphegers]

Is there anyone who has bought the windows 7 home premium and does it come with the 32 and 64 bit disk?

 

[PsyWulf]

VNC never worked so well on Vista...wonder if 7 will be better

 

[stefan9]

@jem ... Thanks.

"Maximum physical CPUs supported" ... What about Dual Core CPUs, does that count as 1 or 2?

Anyone know?

"Remote Desktop Host" ... hmm ... will VNC, etc run on Windows 7 64 bit?

Dual or quad core is still just a single cpu.

 

[Dolby]

Also interested in the Remote Desktop Host :/

In other words, I can use it to connect - but I can't connect to it?