People who’ve followed the development of Windows 7 already know that Windows 7 will include certain limitations for some of the editions. This is very normal for Microsoft to do. The known edition’s of Windows 7 are:
Windows 7 Starter > Windows 7 Home Basic > Windows 7 Home Premium > Windows 7 Professional > Windows 7 Ultimate (Enterprise).
Paul Thurrott mentioned additional restrictions that have not been know before in a recent article on his website:
- Windows 7 Starter and Home Basic will not come with AAC, H.264 or MPEG-2 support. Microsoft seems to have the intention to provide upgrades for those systems to add the support.
- 4 Gigabytes of ram are supported by all Windows 7 editions in 32-bit mode. The differences are in 64-bit mode. Home Basic and Starter support a maximum of 8 Gigabytes, Home Premium 16 Gigabytes and Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise up to 192 Gigabytes of ram.
- Windows Media Player Remote Media Experience (RME) is not available in Windows 7 Home Basic or Starter. However, all versions can share media over a home network.
- All Windows 7 SKUs support 20 simultaneous SMB connections. This works out to 10 users, apparently.
- Only windows 7 Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise support the Virtual XP Mode.
We will not know for sure what features will be in Windows 7 until the Windows 7 Release Candidate is released, on May 5th 2009.
Written By: Omar Hoolgs
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