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Six Versions = 6 x (1million viruses + 2million bugs) = Worse than Windows XP

Seriously.....why....?

What edition will Ballmer be using Fat Idiot Edition.

I just want Windows Vista Gaming for Virtual PC. All I want is to play Wintel games on my new Intel Mac, and nothing else. And I suspect that I am not the only one who feels thus.

Great take MDN!

"These go to eleven..."

Great Take MDN. These guys are complete idiots. It's embarrassing!

Won't most Windows buyers just wave a WHITE flag and surrender? I mean, even Office XP comes in too many flavors to understand. No one wants to have to make choices about software they have never used. MSFT should follow AAPL's lead on this one and have a client version adn a sever version.

Why would ANYBODY want a stripped down version of Windows!

That's be like a pig with lipstick, without the lipstick. Just a pig.

I take it from this marketing strategy that their theory behind it all is you get what you pay for, so the 'Ultimate' Edition must weigh in at $0.50

Apple does not like to dissapoint
Steve Jobs does not like to dissapoint

Expect Apple stock to go up 5-10% after tomorrow's Apple Show.

Mac Genius, wouldn't you rather see all those Windows games get developed for Mac OS X? If everyone buys Windows games to run on their Mac, who's going to develop Mac games? If you really want to play windows games in Windows, then why don't you just buy a Windows computer?

I would imagine the versions that will suck the least will be the European versions, the ones without Windows Media Player.

six flavours of shit is not really a selection

Wow! MS will be available in 6 flavors of crap. Mmmm Crap.

Of course even if people could actually figure out the difference between them, they'll basically end up with whatever PC World or the like happens to bundle in with whatever cheapo piece of crap hardware they're foisting on the public that week as being the best in modern computing technology but at a low price.

Salesman: this comes with Intel centrino technology with HT bullshitting built in.
Member of the public: (blank stare)
Salesman: It's really cheap and runs windows blah blah.
Member of the public: (I don't know what that means but) all that sounds techy and that's what computers are, it's cheap though - I'll take it.
Salesman: sucker.
Member of the public: Sorry?
Salesman: erm, I'm a sucker to let it go that cheap.

"Six" as in "666" is the number of the DEVIL (if you believe Dispensationalism - personally, I don't buy into it, personally, I'm a Postmillenial Preterist).

do NOT cuss....do you have no etiquette?? no sense of decency?

this is the first time i've seen you swear in an MDN Take...and am fully disappointed. there is no way i would refer someone to this site with comments like that. please, is not cussing for high-schoolers? i think we know better.

mw 'four' - no four letter words!!

split a pile of dog poo 6 ways and you're just left with a bigger mess.

Release a Windows-free version and I'm there

Mac Genius--It's about time you changed your name to Mac F--l, or Windoze Genius.

New movie title: Six Degrees of Shit Excretion, starring Steve Ballmer as Jabba The Hutt and Bill Gates and the wormy nerd next door. In this movie, the good scientist, played by Steve Jobs, have found a cure for a horrible wave of viruses that has plagued our society. The evil Jabba The Hutt decides that the only way he can continue his domination of society is to make more ways for his evil virus strains to reproduce, so he creates six separate colons through which his evil viruses can travel. The ignorant American public, not knowing or caring the difference, continues to purchase these unclean bowels, as they have all been cloned from sheep and therefore do not know any better. But in the end, a smaller but smarter religious group called Mac Heads ultimately find a way to defeat Jabballmer by avoiding his dirty colons altogether, choosing instead to side with the smart/good scientist Jobs.

Hey, it could happen.

ashamed to read MDN......


F S C K O F F then.

how do you like them apples.

Surely, it just means another reason for the IT department to up the budgets and employ more people. I can just see the $$ signs in the head of depts eyes. It's all about power and holding onto it.

Thanks for editing my cussing MDN, and not deleting my entire post.

Kudos

too true jimbo

you were trying to say something...??

how do YOU like them?

Chill people. I am a human, "actual and whole" - made of flesh and bone, saliva and sperm.

I have been using Macs since the 128k and have NEVER purchased a windows (or DOS) computer. But I have kids. And my kids like games. Their evil step-dad is a Wintel guy and frankly, I can't compete. Sure, I'd love to see the more games companies release equal and simultaneous for the Mac. I grieved when MSFT bought bungie, and still purchased three copies of Halo/Mac when it was released. But we also spent dozens of wasted hours trying to get Windows games running under Virtual PC with acceptable performance (even loading it as a proxy "Finder" under OS 9.) But that was on my PMG4. And as far as I know VPC was never updated for the G5 (ISTR Big vs. Little Endian something or other...)

Sure I could *buy* a gaming PC, but that would defeat the purpose.

Anyway, I just sold both of our 12" PowerBook G4's and plan to get MacBooks (or whatever the Intel iBooks are called when released.) I suppose Virtual PC will do what I want. But I'll still need a Windows to run under it, and my point remains: All I want is a lean Windows for gaming. So I can impress the young ones.

Let sell six versions so we can charge an arm and a leg for the one that may actually work which would be the enterprise version. Which I'm sure will cost like $2000.00 a copy.

What a scam!

Hmmmm, so the shell game has been beefed up to include six shells. The sick part is there is no winner under any of them.

MDN, do you have a double standard? do you really edit some cussing (librium's post) yet cuss yourselves? i wish i could understand.

but my cussing was BAD cussing, shit on the other hand is not a cuss

6 versions x 6 years of development for each = 36 years.

Vista should be fully ready on April 1, 2042.

Windows Vista Ultimate is a big bloated pig (at least as of Feb CTP v5308). It takes over 512MB ram just to boot on a fresh install with nothing else installed, and uses over 768MB after using it just a short time (with no apps open). It also takes over 6.5GB without counting its swap or hibernation file. It has reduced my poor 3GHz 512MB laptop to a swapping heap. The one positive aspect is it will lead to boosted minimum specs of PCs come this fall.

This is such a scam. Someone explain to me why the hell Microsoft can't just sell one OS at one price like Apple does. Microsoft is artificially enhancing revenue by selling these stripped-down versions. It doesn't cost them any more to stamp a CD with the full package than it does to make one with Vista Grandma's Email edition. The cheaper editions simply serve as justification for the overpricing on the high-end editions.

(Yes, Apple sells a "server" edition, but the only difference is the licensing and some software designed to make network management simpler. All the functionality of OSX Server is available in plain-vanilla OSX; the standard edition just doesn't include the pretty interface to that functionality.)

I can hear now M$'s tech support people in India asking "Vich version Vista vou vusing?"

Absolutely nothing against Indian people, but it is a fact that their accent is very difficult to understand.

6 versions is insane!

It used to be "Less is more." Now, for Microsoft it is now "More is less."

Brilliant! This will undoubtably confuse and befuddle the writers of malware. Look out, you villians, Microsoft's plan of presenting six moving targets will defy all your nefarious attempts.

I can see perhaps versions for business that support multiple processors or something. But there should be only ONE consumer edition. Use the K.I.S.S. method Microsoft. It creates confusion. Why not offer other features as add-ons or something, which you can buy later?

Imagine how to support all these different versions, on different hardware, etc. What a nightmare.

If supporting Windows is a challenge *now*, imagine trying to keep straight what is and isn't typical in SIX different versions.

The consumers are the ones who will suffer since MS is so bad at explaining what is and isn't included in each version.

It's bad enough now with just the Home and Pro Editions.

Thank god I'm a MacOS user!

Microsoft will offer six versions of Vista, yet they havent got version one out the door yet. Amazing!

Still, once they're all out, there'll be plenty of career opportunites for IT Consultants.

Unfortunately, what they really need is a seventh version .... one that actually works!

LordRobin,

Also, OS X only allows up to 10 connections (either AFP or SMB) onto one Mac, whereas OS X Server allows unlimited connections.

Makes sense to me. OS X (whatever flavour) kicks a$$!

Windows Vista - Hasta La Vista.