Remember how there was an awfully confusing number of different versions of Windows Vista? Microsoft has decided it’s not going to do that with Windows 7. Definitely not. In no way are there six different editions to choose from.
To be fair, Microsoft is planning on pushing just two versions: Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional. As you’ve probably guessed, the first is for consumers, the second for business folks.
This is what Microsoft calls offering a “clear choice for consumers and business”. If you don’t naturally fit into either of those boxes, you can still pick from the full line up which runs as follows:
- Windows 7 Starter Edition
- Windows 7 Home Basic
- Windows 7 Home Premium
- Windows 7 Professional
- Windows 7 Enterprise
- Windows 7 Ultimate
Microsoft has also promised that each version will be a superset of the one below – so, for example, Professional will have everything that’s in Home Premium, plus more. There’s no more having to trade off business features in favour of consumers ones as could be the case with Vista.
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