What was Microsoft thinking?
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| If I were Microsoft, I'd phase out Windows Vista Home Basic as soon
| as possible. It's presence in the market place is completely
| unnecessary. I see it as only a transition product anyway.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5322
Edition = features disabled (due to greed).
Distro = suited for different needs.
Related:
Acer: Vista Home Basic is a lemon
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| Microsoft is effectively smuggling through a price hike for Windows
| Vista - by making the entry-level version so poor that no-one will
| want to use it. So says Jim Wong, senior veep at Acer, the world's
| number four PC maker, who told UK hack Jon Honeyball: "The new
| [Vista] experience you hear of, if you get Basic, you won't feel
| it at all. There's no [Aero] graphics, no Media Center, no
| remote control."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/27/acer_slams_vista_home_basic/
The Problem With Five Versions of Windows Vista
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| January 30th may be the day that Vista is released, but it could also be
| the day that hordes of Windows users make the move over to Linux.
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2324&Itemid=449
Vista Home Basic's half-baked bits
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| More suspicious, of course, is that that Home Basic can't run the
| Aero Glass UI, even if the PC is suitably equipped with WDDM-supported
| graphics (this includes some integrated graphics chipsets, such as
| Intel's 945G/GM Express and Core 2 Duo 965 Express) and backed bye
| nough RAM.
|
| [...]
|
| Yet three of Home Basic's components ? Backup, Mobility Centre and
| Meeting Space -- are present in an oddly stripped-down form which we
| expect will lead to confusion among people running different versions
| of Vista.
|
| [...]
|
| Another quirk of the cut-down Home Basic build is the Mobility Centre,
| which is intended to aggregate all notebook-centric features into a
| single control strip. Home Basic lists its version of the Mobility
| Centre as being 'limited', which doesn't say much.
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http://www.apcmag.com/4900/vista_home_basics_half_baked_bits
Rootkits, Bootkits, Viruses & Windows VISTA
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| Microsoft thought about this and developed the Bitocker System but once
| again hell breaks loose, it's only available for high-end Vista
| Versions ( Ultimate and Enterprise), so probably the rest of us are
| left alone to face the attacks. What was Microsoft thinking when it
| cleared the idea that low price version would have security
| features disabled?
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http://tpmboys.blogspot.com/2007/03/rootkits-bootkits-viruses-vista.html
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