Microsoft unveils 6 Vista editions
Microsoft is planning six versions of the next incarnation of its Windows operating system, [span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]according to marketing shills from the monolithic company[/span] a press spokesman for MS said today.
The six versions are:[/p][/p][li] Vista Business[/li][li] Vista Enterprise[/li][li] Vista Home Basic[/li][li] Vista Home Premium[/li][li] Vista Ultimate[/li][li] Vista Starter[/li]
These versions are also known by their "real" names as:
[li] Vista Expensive[/li][li] Vista Almost Functional
[/li][li] Vista Bugfix[/li][li] Vista Crashware[/li][li] Vista Dirt Nap
[/li][li] Vista Useless[/li]
"We don't want customers to be forced into buying something that isn'tgoing to meet all their needs," said Barry Goffe, Microsoft's directorof Windows client product management.
[!-- E BO --]Using AltaVista's 'Babelfish' translator (Marketspeak to English) the above sentence revealed its actual meaning:
"We just want to find new and innovative ways to extract as much money from customers as possible," said Barry Goffe, Microsoft's directorof Windows client product management.