- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: DaBillyBob
There WILL be more than 3, in a matter of fact.. 8!!
http://www.dvhardware.net/article10021.html
http://www.techspot.com/news/20566-microsoft-accidentally-lea ks-vista-details.html
read both!!
Don't take it from anybody but Microsoft. Even when those news sources claimed that "oh, MS had it, they just took it down when they realized they leaked it." Don't believe them.
And even if they may have been telling the truth, for example, perhaps Microsoft decided NOT to build that many versions and simply took it down from their website.
Besides, I notice that both the articles link to a bigger news source like Reuters and Australian News (as opposed to Microsoft itself), but neither Reuters nor AU is able to cite an original source. Don't just read the articles, analyze them.
I seriously doubt any more than 3 versions, though. Small businesses and large businesses each having their own OS? AND a home, pro and ultimate? I mean, think of it logically. (Yes, the same logic that had me so convinced that h2 would come to PC eventually. That logic.) Is a small business so radically different from a large business that they each need their own individual OS? A single well-designed Pro version is all that's needed. And if they constructed both a "small business"/"large business" Windows, why would anyone want to buy the "Pro" version of windows when they would just get the "small/large busniess" version instead?
My point is basically, that Microsoft wouldn't do such a thing, because it would be literally stretching themselves too thin.
[Edited on 2/22/2006]