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8 Feb 2009

Windows 7 Will Be Available in Six Versions

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Additional news pertaining to Windows 7 was released earlier this week. This comes barely a month after the generally positive response to the first public beta of Microsoft’s next iteration of the Windows operating system. Though it’s not yet announced via official channels, a number of Internet sites have independently confirmed with Microsoft that there will be six versions of Windows 7 when it is finally released:

Windows 7 Starter Edition
Windows 7 Home Basic
Windows 7 Home Premium
Windows 7 Professional
Windows 7 Enterprise
Windows 7 Ultimate

How will the various editions of Windows 7 related to the small and medium-sized business? Well, it all depends whether the new machines will be participating in a managed network with Domain Join.

Essentially, only Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 7 Ultimate will support being joined to a domain, so your options are more or less decided if you require it. Windows 7 Professional is positioned as the entry-level edition for businesses and features Encrypting File System. Windows 7 Enterprise will come with DirectAccess technology to be used in conjunction with Windows Server 2008 R2, as well as AppLocker, which is used to centrally lock down unauthorized software.

SMBs that do not require participation in a Windows domain will probably do well with Windows 7 Home Basic or Windows Basic Home Premium. Note that Windows 7 Starter Edition is unlikely to be suitable for any form of business activities, since it only allows up to a maximum of three user applications to run at a time.

In addition, another fact known at this point is that Microsoft will not be providing any software migration tools to upgrade Windows XP or Windows Vista to Windows 7. What that means is that you will have to manually back up user documents and reinstall the requisite applications. It now appears to be a better idea to simply wait for the general availability of Windows 7.

(Source: http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/mah/windows-7-will-be-available-in-six-versions/?cs=30327 )

8 Jan 2009

Windows 7 Beta Release

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Microsoft may release to developers a trial version of its forthcoming Windows 7 operating system as soon as next week, according to a note on one of the company’s Web sites.

“Attend an upcoming MSDN Developer Conference and you will receive a Windows 7 Beta 1 DVD,” Microsoft said on a site it maintains for software developers. The next such conference is Tuesday in Chicago, according to the site, with other conferences scheduled for cities across the country throughout January.

The site promises that developers who attend one of the conferences will be “among the first to see Windows 7.” It also states that attendees will receive preview access to Windows Azure, an operating system that Microsoft is developing for cloud computing environments.

For those who can’t wait, an early build of a Windows 7 beta has appeared on numerous, legally questionable, file sharing sites. “I’m using this OS as I type,” wrote a Pirate Bay user going by the name ‘al966g’. “Looks like it’s OK to me, not too much different than Vista but a few new items,” the user wrote.

The user noted that he had Windows 7 running on a relatively underpowered Pentium 4 computer with only 768 MB of RAM. Vista, by contrast, was widely criticized for steep hardware requirements that forced users to upgrade their PCs.

A final version of Windows 7 isn’t expected until late 2009 or early 2010.

(Source: http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems… )

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