{"id":968,"date":"2009-05-21T12:42:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T20:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/stage\/?p=968"},"modified":"2009-05-14T15:25:17","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T23:25:17","slug":"windows-7-sku-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/windows-7-sku-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 SKU Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has created a Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) line-up where each SKU is a superset of the previous SKU. This means that each higher edition SKU will have every feature lower edition SKUs have. Microsoft will be\u00a0 focusing on two primary editions of Windows 7:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. Windows 7 Home Premium<br \/>\n2. Windows 7 Professional<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Microsoft will continue to offer a few targeted SKUs for customers with specialized needs:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; For price-sensitive customers with small notebook PCs, some OEMs will offer Windows 7 Starter.<br \/>\n&#8211; For customers in emerging markets, Microsoft will make Windows 7 Home Basic available.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Businesses:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Businesses have two recommended choices.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1. Windows 7 Professional<br \/>\n2. Windows 7 Enterprise<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Windows 7 Professional is recommended for small businesses and Windows 7 Enterprise is recommended for mid- and large-sized businesses that have a Software Assurance Agreement with Microsoft.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Consumers:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Microsoft recommends Windows 7 Home Premium for most customers and Windows 7 Professional for customers who want additional features and functionality useful for small business activities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SKUs for Windows 7:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The SKU lineup for Windows 7 is:<\/p>\n<p>Windows 7 Starter<br \/>\nWindows 7 Home Basic (in Emerging Markets only)<br \/>\nWindows 7 Home Premium<br \/>\nWindows 7 Professional<br \/>\nWindows 7 Enterprise<br \/>\nWindows 7 Ultimate<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The features in each version of Windows 7 build upon the one before it. As customers move up from one SKU to the next, from Windows 7 Starter through Windows 7 Ultimate, they gain additional features and lose none.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has created a Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) line-up where each SKU is a superset of the previous SKU. This means that each higher edition SKU will have every feature lower edition SKUs have. Microsoft will be\u00a0 focusing on two primary editions of Windows 7: 1. Windows 7 Home Premium 2. Windows 7 Professional Microsoft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-windows-7"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}