Hi Richard, >> What I still do not understand, however, is why they push a Home >> Premium version without XP emulation (almost all new machines sold >> come with it). End users will have a great bunch of older software >> they depend on which they will want to continue using. As far as I >> can see, they would have to upgrade to Professional to be able to use >> XP emulation. Or did I get this wrong, too? :-) > I think that's just marketing stuff, "if you want more, pay more".
I think that Microsoft is doing an outstanding work on Windows and I love the idea that they are producing a version of Windows for every possible need. I will buy one copy of Windows 7 Starter for the computer in my guest room, one Windows 7 Home Basic for my older home computer, a Windows 7 Home Premium for my shiny new home computer, Windows 7 Professional will run on my secretary's computer, Windows 7 Enterprise on my work computer, and Windows 7 Ultimate is reserved to the laptop i bring home. You see? It's not only marketing. We have a real need for it! And Microsoft it's not the only company who has got it! It's a bit like with that Linux thing. You put a Maemo or Android on your phone, a SUSE on your graphics art workstation, a Mandriva on your Laptop, a KUbuntu Karmik Koala on your kids' komputer, a Debian Lenny on your server and a random Slackware on that 286 in the basement. Or do you think that all those distributions are only marketing stuff and in the reality they are all mixed up by Linus Torvalds in his basement to confuse us? Or have a look at Scribus (can i talk about Scribus? we are on a Scribus mailing list, aren't we?)! You will put Scribus 1.2 Dead Edition on your 286 in the basement running Slackware, Scribus 1.3.4 The Ghost Edition on your mother-in-law computer, 1.3.3.13 We Told You To Use It on your secretary's computer, 1.3.5rc2 Who Changed The QT Requirement on your Debian server (and try to run it headless for six nights before giving up), 1.3.5.1 Stable Like Rocks on your kids laptop, 1.3.6svn Even Stabler Like Rockers on your production machine 1.4 The Stable Christmas Or Easter Edition on your quantum computer, and a fresh 1.5svn Shiny Gradients on your laptop. Do you think that the Scribus team is doing all this only for marketing reasons? Nooo! it's because our users want it!!!! It's not a secret any more that the final goal is to get each Scribus user to identify with her own Scribus version! (a very ambitious goal, since the number of Scribus users tends to grow faster than the Team can put out new versions). And this will make the support much easier! We won't have to ask you anymore which system and version you are using! No more crystall ball! The next time i will write about CPUs and Graphic Cards(tm Ciao a.l.e
