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Title: Microsoft unveils 6 Vista editions
Post by: MS Fanboi on Feb 27 06 06:22
               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.

Title: Re: Microsoft unveils 6 Vista editions
Post by: Witch on Feb 27 06 08:59
New Microsoft Slogan

"Windows in six flavours.... one of them is bound to work!"
Title: Re: Microsoft unveils 6 Vista editions
Post by: MSYuck on Feb 27 06 09:07
I heard that "VISTA" stands for the major components in Windows:

Viruses
Infections
Spyware
Trojans
Adware
Title: Re: Microsoft unveils 6 Vista editions
Post by: Legion on Feb 27 06 09:44
lol.

Hey all you anonymous would be Microsoft trolls!

Have a look at the true master. Check out [a href="http://forums.asp.net/1/777735/ShowPost.aspx#777735"]HackMeNot in this thread[/a] on the MS forums.
Title: Re: Microsoft unveils 6 Vista editions
Post by: Lisa Maree on Feb 27 06 04:01
I'd just like them to make one version that is worth more than the disk it's burned on in respect to security and stability.