With everyone’s fears about multiple versions of Windows 7 confirmed today, the question on everybody’s lips is “why?” After all, they say themselves that they’re focusing on just the two main versions (Home Premium and Professional), and they must know, if not admit, that the various tiers of Vista hurt it badly. So why release these different versions?
Well, I hate to break it to you, but I don’t know. Nobody does for sure, though it probably has something to do with inertia. A body that’s blowing it tends to continue blowing it, and it was too much to expect that Microsoft would remove all the suck from Vista in one swoop. But this particular problem could have been solved with a minimum of fuss. Here’s how.
