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Windows Vista Flavors Officially Announced (kind of...)

Postby Silverhaze on Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:18 pm

It looks like Windows Vista will come in all shapes and sizes. As has been rumoured earlier there’ll be a ton of versions of Windows Vista to choose from.

On the now-missing page, Microsoft’s final branding varied only slightly from my initial report, with one product version (Starter Edition) being renamed and one (Vista Small Business) being dropped. Based on the comments I’ve gotten from Microsoft, perhaps the Small Business version of Vista is indeed making a comeback.


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Postby ivwshane on Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:28 pm

Besides eye candy I still trying to decide what benefits vista will have for me and whether or not I'll care.
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Postby RabidYak on Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:31 pm

I'm already sold. Its the first version of windows in ages with a significant amount of new architecture, some of which should do great stuff for security and stability.

Not that i've got much choice either way though, you can't not keep up with this stuff when you do it for a living.
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Postby ivwshane on Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:00 am

I'm already secure and what advantages does the new architecture have?
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Postby RabidYak on Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:43 pm

In terms of security, the core of the OS is allot more isolated and protected from the user end of it then in the current generation. Account security is tighter and allows for further access control to system critical stuff, user processes are kept away from system processes, the kernel can only be modifed while running by authorised patches, software-related registry entries at machine level have tighter controls, it has no execute support for CPUs that have it, IE7 can be locked into its own security zone, Defender and a beefed up version of Firewall are fully intigrated and a fair bit of other stuff thats relevant to networks and business rather then consumer users.

Microsoft arn't trying to screw you out of money for a new coat of paint and a couple of new features this time, Vista is about as new as you can get for an operating system based on an existing platform. The really low level stuff like memory management, I/O control and the kernel structure has been overhauled. Video, audio, networking and printing have all been redone from scratch and file management has had allot of feature work done on it. Pretty much all the bundled end user software has either been redone, extended or superseeded by something more comprehensive as well.
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Postby Class316 on Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:01 pm

wow quite some heavy stuff!

Can't wait to download a free Windows Vista Ultimate via torrents 8)
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Postby Zep on Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:05 pm

I've just got a copy of the latest beta version of Vista... I'll let you know if I can be bothered to use it, as I hear that driver support is limited.
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Postby ivwshane on Wed Mar 01, 2006 5:04 am

I might have changed my mind after reading this article:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1 ... 946,00.asp
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Postby Silverhaze on Wed Mar 01, 2006 1:44 pm

Interesting article actually!

If anybody is interested, Vista will be available in the following flavours:

Vista Business
Vista Enterprise
Vista Home Basic
Vista Home Premium
Vista Ultimate
Vista Starter
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