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Old March 14th 17, 07:22 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Paul[_32_]
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Default Identification question

Stan Brown wrote:
On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 23:07:44 -0400, Paul wrote:
The non-Pro version may be referred to as "Core" or "Home".
And in some dialogs, may have no identifier at all. So
"Pro is Pro, the rest is Home".


Unless it's Enterprise. (That's from memory, so I could be wrong. I
think my work computer shows "Windows 8.1 Enterprise, but I won't
swear to it. I'll try to remember to check tomorrow.)


I think it's only Home that doesn't have an identifier.

And it's not clear why Microsoft slipped on this. It's
just stupid to not have a consistent naming scheme, in
operation at all times.

If Microsoft thought "Home" had bad connotations, why
didn't they select "Windows Cheap" as a moniker ? :-)
For that's how it is actually sold, as the "cheap" SKU.
Functionality be damned.

And for Starter (which might not exist any more),
they could have called that "Windows You'll Be Sorry",
or "Windows Heh Upgrade Immediately You CheapSkate"

Paul
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