Win 7 Superbowl Edition - All the normal features but also loads of annoying commercials that are celebrated and praised for some reason. Cause it's American, don't ya know? Crashes after 4 hours.

Win 7 Professional edition - Every time you move an icon on the desktop, Christian Bale appears on your screen for 30 minutes yelling and asking you if you are professional or not. Does not boot unless you wear a suit.

 

 

Right now the beta is good ... ... I can only see it getting better ...

They should only have 4 products. Two versions for laptops and 2 for

desktops. A 32 bit and a 64 bit ... The 64 bit verision should have

special options that can be downloaded and added to it. So, you

can connect to a corporate server and network.

 

If Microsoft thinks alot of companies are going to swarm to Windows 7 ..

I don't see it happening ... Right now most big companies are still using

Win XP ... and it works ...  All IT groups aren't spending ... an some are

thinking of going to linux for cutting costs ...  Also, IT staff in most companies

are small now. So, I don't see any major OS rollouts in the coming months

happening ...

 

So bottom line ...  Make a better consumer version ... the average joe or

techie will get it before the corporate types " O.K."

 

 

I disagree.

They should have one product. At installation it should detect what environment it's installed in, and configure the OS accordingly.

It should also allow for manual selection of OS environment, since a user might want another OS environment than the most logical choice.

 

From a commercial point of view it makes sense to have a personal and business edition of the OS though. Anything else is just too much...

"Starter edition" is just way silly. People will pirate the full editions to get the things that are not included in the starter edition anyway.

An edition of Windows 7 I would have liked to see is a Gamer's Edition, which would be wriiten to runs demanding apllications. Just a thought.

I read on the Windows Blog site that the installation discs this time will contain all the bits for every version, that which version you get depends on the license purchased... thus making is easier for users to access the 'Upgrade Now' function.  OK, it doesn't address the too many SKU's issue, but it is a step in the right direction.

One concern I have is OEM's installing the 'emerging market' edition on PC's intended for other domestic markets, thus cutting their own costs and forcing unsuspecting consumers to purchase a license for a Home Premium or a Professional version later, because the find being able to run only 3 apps is too restrictive.  Hope fully MS would takes steps to prevent this, but I doubt it.

Disagree.

• No reason to have a special version for laptops. Just make it detect what it's on.
• I think it should come with both 64 and 32 bit, and install 64 bit by default. Yes, even on home machines. Personally, I think that everybody should be moving towards 64 bits, not just businesses.
  

I think separating personal and business is okay, and thankfully they're letting business be a superset of Home - which means I can buy business and get all of the home stuff. I just couldn't afford Vista Ultimate.

. . . and in all honesty, I think Microsoft should move back towards users being able to choose which features they want during the install. Let the SKUs determine what features are available, but don't force the user to install features they don't want.

MS want to consolidate their market into one OS and they go and pull this malarky again, 2 choices , 32 or 64 !!

Microsoft, just like many other organizations, never learn from their mistakes. What's with the 5 different versions? Why can't there just be two editons like XP and only make it 64-bit? Computers nowadays are going beyond the 4 GB limit, so 32-bit OS's should be obsolete by now. There should only be Windows 7 Home & Professional, that's it. I'm disappointed in Microsoft once again. Windows 7 will end up as nothing more than a reminder of Vista, despite the "new features & performance enhancements" they incorporate.

That's an interesting idea.

The problem with it, though is that the download would be very large...and what would happen if you wished to migrate to another machine (with a different use)? Would it be a "Custom" installation with different modules adding different amounts to a "final" price?

As I said, an interesting idea, mickeko.

Realistically, there are only 2 versions consumers will care about: Home Premium and Professional. The rest are for specialized markets.

There are still some 32 bit only processors that can run Windows 7. P4s can probably run it. In addition, upgrading a 32 bit system to 64 bit requires a fresh install, and some people may not want that.

I'd say make 64 bit the default, but still have 32 bit around for CPUs that don't support it.

While I agree with moving in that direction, a lot of people and businesses move slowly. And to be honest I understand their reasoning: Don't fix what's not broke, and don't upgrade just because it's the cool thing to do. A machine that does its job might not need memory upgrade.

running 7 x64 on my laptop, only thing that's broke is my wireless button

uses 200 MB less ram while idling than vista. wtg microsoft(take that how you want to )

 

 

 

While I get tired of people bashing microsoft these days I do have to admit this is really unfortunate news. They may have just lost my purchase, I don't feel like researching what I use to figure out the perfect version for me.

Why does idle memory usage matter? I don't care if the OS use every single bit of available memory when idle, as long as my software has access to as much as possible of that when needed. And that's really not easily measurable.

Just because the OS grab memory when idle doesn't have to mean it's not available for applications.

Oh come on, I mean, how hard could it be?  Microsoft has stated that 2 main versions will be made readily available in stores for the general public, Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional., with Windows 7 Ultimate probably being an 'order in' option if you want it.  With editions lower than Home Premium likely to be less than what the average user needs, and the Enterprise Edition being made available to big business, it doesn't leave too many choices to um and ah about, does it!

It never ceases to amaze me, how some feel the need to over-complicate matters when the choices are pretty straight forward. It's either Home Premium or Professional for most... and Ultimate if they have the bucks for more bang.

Sheesh!

Exactly, it just means MS tweaked Superfetch a bit.  The purpose of which is to use as much memory as possible to speed up the things you are using often.  After all, RAM unused is RAM wasted, since you're paying the power to keep it alive whether it's being used or not...

Use all my RAM, please!

PS and for the record, I just installed the W7 beta (32 bit version) on some 3 ghz P4 machines with 1 gig of RAM and I gotta tell ya, it's way faster on that configuration than Vista was.  So, my unscientific experiments confirm the benchmarks people are reported about the new compiler optimizations under the hood of W7.  Yummy!