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Re: Re: So win2k8 R2 == win 7? ( sort of )

Elmer — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:35:06 GMT

I believe there should only be the one client product:

Windows 7 Client

The Business/Ultimate/Basic/Premium thing is just a giant PITA, particularly when you have people being sold Home system with a "no worries" salesman assurance they can hook up to the domain at work, and downgrade to XP of needs be.

Sell the "premium/ultimate" features as an add-on pack, and then standardise on a single client platform, so that the price remains the same for business users, and so that the home/business confusion is removed.

So long as you can set a simple personality switch, to set the preferred mode - Home User, Business User - then people can make it work how they like/need, without the issues * buying a notebook and finding that your IT dept won't help you connect it to the domain.

Re: Re: So win2k8 R2 == win 7? ( sort of )

Soe Tun — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:32:41 GMT

It wouldn't. I like the Year-based naming because the version numbers are getting big.

For example, would you rather call Microsoft Office 12 (or) Microsoft Office 2007?

Re: So win2k8 R2 == win 7? ( sort of )

Scott — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:41:33 GMT

I think they should change the naming:

Windows 7 Server (currently Windows Server 2008 R2)
Windows 7 Client (currently Windows 7 Business/Enterprise)
Windows 7 Home (currently Windows 7 Home Premium/Basic)

It would clear up a lot of the confusion over the naming.

Re: So win2k8 R2 == win 7? ( sort of )

AndyC — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:08:55 GMT

Yes, they're the same. The plan going forwards for Windows is to use the same underlying code base, as this improves compatability and servicability.