Item 1 Description of my Adventure into Acquiring Windows 7:
Windows 7 is out. Yay. Finally, microsoft is making up for the ill begotten ME 2... I mean Vista. It's supposed to run faster, leap over tall buildings, make you toast, and rearrange your sock drawer by color shape and wear. So I'm debating running out to my local software retailer and grab a copy. Scanning over the meager offerings that Wal-Mart and the like offer in their software section these days, I finally spy my target. Windows 7... Windows 7 Starter, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, Klingon, NIV, Lego, Moosetracks... WTH???
Why, why do they need so many different versions? I know they like to rip off linux from time to time, but having a hundred different versions isn't one of the items I was really wanting ported. Why not save time and money on marketing and different labeling and lower the price of the Ultimate to a decent price, you'd probably sell more.
Lets examine the low end shall we? Windows 7 Starter. An appropriate name as it will basically just do what a boot disc does and START your computer. You probably have more functionality in your cell phone than this version of the OS. I mean who would ever want to run more than three applications at a time, only hackers that's who, and we don't want you using our OS you miscreant!!!!
Home Premium... with compiz/beryl... I mean Aero goodness. Yes I will pay the extra for that...
Now Professional looks a bit better than the other options, I can run in XP mode. Or... I can "upgrade" to XP Professional, decisions, decisions...
I could go on, by my caffeine is wearing out... Point to be taken I guess is most marketing departments, and I place blame for this hogwash squarely on their shoulders, should be shot. Hobbling your product to sell different versions is just silly.
Item 2 List of Offenders:
Microsoft, again, Bill Gates, I'm sure Ballmer had something to do with this
Item 3 Suggested Course of Action:
And lo they did smaketh the marketers upside the head, and did scatter their pie-charts and shove their projections back from whence they came
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Jason, I think I have told you that you can indeed get the full version even from the upgrade version because of the well-known back door because of the support for it. As for the marketing on the packages, it's stupid to pay all that money and allow the back door access to the upgrade version.
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