Tag Archives: Vista and Office

What About Vista Anyway? How About Office?

A number of people have asked me “what do I need to run Vista?” over the last few days… in some ways, it’s a trick question. After all there’s a bunch of different versions of Vista. It runs fine without Aero – the glassy styled Windows – and there’s a boatload of features between the versions… so, simply put: it depends.

And now for Part 4 of a trilogy of Vista/Office posts.
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Speaking Of SKU’s

Speaking of SKU’s, these charts should prove to be invaluable:

Vista editions: Retail SKU’s include Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, and Ultimate

Office editions: Retail SKU’s include Home and Student, Standard, Small Business, Professional, and Ultimate

If only for my own sanity – I keep forgetting which has what… you get spoiled running the Ultimate edition of both. *g*