I really hate to gripe about this, but the plans for the next version of Windows are completely irritating to me...
What marketing genius decided that Microsoft needs to confuse the heck out of every IT staffer and developer in the world?
I just don't get it... Why do we need 7 different editions of Vista? Isn't 5 enough?
- Starter
- Home Basic
- Home Premium
- Professional
- Small Business
- Enterprise
- Ultimate
This is just the LAMEST Concept I have heard of in years. I wonder if all these also have 64 bit editions as well, that would make the total 14, not just 7. They would save themselves and the rest of the development community a billion headaches if they just dropped it to ONE version, or maybe even 2. (I mean one OS here with add on modules if they want to charge for functionality, this is NOT how it is done in home vs. pro vs. server, they have different kernels/system dlls of the same name)
While this may be a great boon to the consultants and IT Outsourcing companies of the world, it will however be not only frustrating, but costly, detrimental and in some cases crippling to development companies.
Now imagine yourself as a small ISV. You will have to take into account how your product reacts to each of these “flavors” and will force you to test on all 7 platforms just to be thorough.
No wonder Linux keep gaining ground on the desktop with approaches like this. I guess Microsoft decided it could out Linux Linux and create forks of its own products all by itself and compete with the various distros instead of simplifying everyones life and making Microsoft the choice for less confusion.
How many editions of OS/X are there? OH, Yeah... ONE.
Well, unfortunately the Atlas Project has been pulled and will not be released for VS2005 like they told us at PDC.
It is not coming until Orcas now... major let down.
ok, ok, so I'm a day late with the news...
http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2005/10/27/485665.aspx
I can finally get rid of this VPC on my laptop :)
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