Microsoft's Ultimate Disadvantage
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| While Ultmate's absence wasn't surprising, I did expect to see it on
| high-end PCs. A high-end desktop would have the oomph for Windows Vista
| Ultimate.
|
| [...]
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| What about Dell? Dimension desktop PCs come with Windows Basic or Premium,
| in base configurations. On the high-end XPS systems, where Ultimate would
| seem well suited, Dell offers Windows Vista Premium or--get this--Windows
| XP Media Center Edition.
|
| [...]
|
| I ended my Ultimate search at Sony, which typically offers the kind of
| multimedia wonders made for Microsoft's top-end Windows. The VAIO
| VGN-AR390E notebook, a $3,300 powerhouse comes with Windows Vista Premium.
| The similarly priced VAIO Digital Living System VGX-XL3 desktop PC also
| packs Premium. Where's Ultimate, Sony?
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/vista/microsofts_ultimate_disadvantage.html
Related:
Boycott The Windows Vista Release
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| For reference, this is the list of features Microsoft says is added
| in Vista Ultimate
|
| * "Help protect against hardware failure"
| * "Business Networking and Remote Desktop"
| * "Better Protect Your Data"
|
| Hell, I've used the top two features in XP Professional so much I
| don't know what the heck I?d do without them, and better protect my
| data? YES PLEASE!
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http://www.nigelj.com/blog/2007/01/windows-vista-release/
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/
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 by
| enough 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
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