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]]> http://www.chris123nt.com/2009/02/04/windows-7-editions-clarified/comment-page-1/#comment-10325 Windows 7 Product Editions announced » Kristan Kenney’s Digital Life Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:40:59 +0000 http://chris123nt.com/2009/02/04/microsoft-makes-changes-to-windows-7-editions/#comment-10325 [...] Windows 7 Ultimate/Enterprise – In the retail channel, this edition will be called Ultimate; for corporate customers with a Select license agreement, it will be called Enterprise. In either case, the feature set includes everything in Professional edition plus support for BitLocker whole-drive encryption (and the new BitLocker To Go feature, which adds high-grade encryption to removable media). This edition also includes all supported language packs (those cost extra for other editions) and the capability to boot from a VHD. This is how it should have been in 2006 when Windows Vista RTM’ed, I’m really glad to see that they’ve straightened out that mess as I’ve been complaining about it since day one. There was no need for Home Basic as it was so stripped down that you couldn’t really classify the feature set as being marketed close to Windows Vista Home Premium; they’ve finally broken the divide between Home Premium and Business (now called Professional) as well by making it a super-set instead of “a few features added, a few features taken away” which made things much more confusing. I think for the average person, you’ll see quite a bit of adoption towards Home Premium, and most other customers will go for Windows 7 Professional, unless you need support for BitLocker Drive Encryption. Hopefully, Microsoft has learned from their mistakes and won’t be pushing a “Windows 7 Ultimate Extras” program.  Source of Windows 7 SKU information from Ed Bott over at DNet, via Chris Holmes. [...] [...] Windows 7 Ultimate/Enterprise – In the retail channel, this edition will be called Ultimate; for corporate customers with a Select license agreement, it will be called Enterprise. In either case, the feature set includes everything in Professional edition plus support for BitLocker whole-drive encryption (and the new BitLocker To Go feature, which adds high-grade encryption to removable media). This edition also includes all supported language packs (those cost extra for other editions) and the capability to boot from a VHD. This is how it should have been in 2006 when Windows Vista RTM’ed, I’m really glad to see that they’ve straightened out that mess as I’ve been complaining about it since day one. There was no need for Home Basic as it was so stripped down that you couldn’t really classify the feature set as being marketed close to Windows Vista Home Premium; they’ve finally broken the divide between Home Premium and Business (now called Professional) as well by making it a super-set instead of “a few features added, a few features taken away” which made things much more confusing. I think for the average person, you’ll see quite a bit of adoption towards Home Premium, and most other customers will go for Windows 7 Professional, unless you need support for BitLocker Drive Encryption. Hopefully, Microsoft has learned from their mistakes and won’t be pushing a “Windows 7 Ultimate Extras” program.  Source of Windows 7 SKU information from Ed Bott over at DNet, via Chris Holmes. [...]

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