| Bitmap Frogs said:
That's what they always used to do, a client edition and a server edition. If I recall, they started testing it with XP and went full fledged with Vista. You know, windows 7 might be stellar but if they pretend people and business to drop 200 smackers just to have the timestamped backup feature enabled, it's gonna hurt them. |
It has essentially always been this way. 2000 had 3-4 versions aimmed either at consumers or businesses depending on the name. Before that they just had two seperate lines of OSes that they worked with. You had the 9X series more targetted towards the home user, and the NT series designed more for businesses and the like in the exact same vein as the current set-ups. Hell, even Windows 3.1 had an extra version in 3.11 with networking support to make it more worthwhile in a business environment. The multiple versions will work because it has always worked. You are just now becoming aware of it though.
