http://www.windows8news.com/2012/01/29/ ... windows-8/

Windows nearly always comes in different packages such as Buissness and Ultimate and Home, but then again its going to be a full OS and there are no limitations. this is probably because windows 8 is shipping on tablets (but cant they do win 8 tablet) But then again it could be a tough task for buissnesses as disabling all the games and media centre in group policy will take a long time. But the architecture for the tablet windows 8 will be completely diffrent as ARM is diffrent from intel and AMD.

I think this is a rumour, not news.
For me, with 4 SKU's will be OK : Netbook, Home, Business & Tablet.

Home is just fine for Netbooks. No need for another sepparate edition that differs little or not at all...

Nah, they need these SKUs:

• Windows 8 Home Basic
• Windows 8 Home Premium
• Windows 8 Home Movie Making
• Windows 8 Professional
• Windows 8 Professional Movie Making
• Windows 8 Professional Business Owner
• Windows 8 Website Designer
• Windows 8 Ultimate

Adding all these SKUs would encourage movie makers, business owners and website designers to buy Windows 8. They would see the product and think "Wow, this product must have Super Tools! I'll buy it to build my future."
Credits if you remember the original post on this ;>

There's not going to be just one. There's a reason they have SKUs and they've explained it numerous times. I believe they even explained it in one of the B8 blog posts.

They could probably get away with slimming the client SKUs down to one or two in each market, but what was more amusing was some were suggesting they could just do one server SKU.


Now that's just amusing that people are so disconnected from the subject at matter, but still feel the need to comment and make themselves look foolish.

Windows Vista/7 have too many editions. Windows 7 Ultimate runs fine on a netbook, and are there really that many people paying to upgrade to a higher edition of Windows 7. I would just do one with everything, but 2 editions like XP had is fine. With Windows 8 you could do a home edition that showcased the new metro UI and multimedia features. Then a professional edition that uses Explorer but still allows metro and has the traditional business features included such as RDP, domain joining, etc.

I guess they won't do major changes to the SKU system because it's served it's purpose well enough for Vista and 7. Maybe they'll restrict ARM to Starter/Home Basic and Professional/Ultimate, but otherwise all present SKUs have their target group.

On the other side, a overhaul of the SKU system could fit to the whole Metro thingy, "simple", "expressive"... I could quite well imagine seeing straightforward stuff like "Tablet PC Edition" or "Media Center Edition" again.

I think they should have

Home (Most features)
ARM/Tablet/Professional (For any ARM-Based tablets, limited desktop functionality)
Buisness/Enterprise
Ultimate (Option to disable Immersive etc).

Starter was just pointless, Aero basic looks horrible and the wallpaper removal was just stupid. Professional is just pointless too, not that many features between it and Home Premium or Ultimate.

Option to disable immersive should be on all editions, ultimate should have additional options eg. having the WindowsToGo (whatever its called) making functionality (1 license or something), Bitlocker, Windows XP mode, and the Enterprise stuff...

I agree on not having starter, I have it on my netbook, and it doesn't even have the option of changing wallpaper!

There shouldn't be only one SKU, I think.
At least in PC versions they would have one for home use, and another for "professional", just like Windows XP.

Home SKU can be used in preinstalled machines with lower costs, as there are not so many functions, the retail price would be more affordable.

I agree, There should be Windows 8 home (for home users), Windows 8 Buissness or Pro (For schools buissnesses) and Windows 8 Tablet (for ARM Based) I dont think there should be Ultimate, Starter, Home etc. Ultimate runs perfectly on my netbook and whats with Enterprise and Pro in Windows 7? Just weird are they both for buissness?

I think the most important thing with SKUs is to make it feel like the higher SKUs have additional features, rather than the lower ones having features removed. Windows 7 starter really feels like it has features removed (no desktop background changes, thats just ridiculous). On the other hand, why not just have one or two editions and instead of anytime upgrade, just have feature upgrade where you can buy a component such as xp mode or bitlocker seperately from anything else?

Most home users will be fine with Windows Home Premium and even small business users who don't use domains. Many of the missing features can be bypassed with 3rd party software anyways. If you want XP Mode, get Virtualbox or the VMLite XP Mode. If you want remote desktop there are many other programs out there, I like Teamviewer. Most people don't even know what version of Windows 7 they have.

Don't forget Gaming, Tablet, and Cookbook Edition!

Complete nonsense... Way too many editions. I'd say only 2 or 3; Tablet, Desktop/Laptop and Server.

It was sarcasm.

I totally agree with you about starter's aero looking horrible.

Professional and Enterprise have longer (extended) support than other versions, hence suitable for companies as they don't change their OSes every year...

I forgot to click my rumor counter.
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I doubt there would be one, after all going by the past, MS probably wants to push a professional version to businesses with domain support.

There will be the same number as Windows 7.

Personally I think they should slim it down a bit. Too many different editions of 7 IMO.

I think there should be 4 editions; Windows 8 Tablet, Windows 8 Desktop, Windows 8 Professional and Windows 8 Buissness