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They are both going to be running the same kernel. They are in essance the same. you can't expect a tablet experience on a 4" screen though, that would be stupid.

What do you expect. This is the same company that gave you XP Home, Professional, Ultra, Business, the same with Vista, Windows 7, and now Windows 8.
While there different versions of Linux out there, most different versions are from different providers. You also don't see that with OS X. MS has done it for years - why would you expect them to change now!!!

Seeing that iver 1B people use Windows, you guys with this same stupid statement about people being confused has been proven wrong for more than a decade. Yet yo are still crazy enough to keep saying it?

Windows XP and Windows Vista and Windows 7 all had on 2 retail versions. All 3 had Home and Pro.

The Ultimate version only came preinstalled on highend computers which is not the class of PC's that are most bought.

The 2 most bought PC's are for use at home or at work, thus Home and Pro.

The Enterprise version is not even used by typical business users. It is used by IT guys mostly. I am sure THEY won't be confused.

Vista Home Basic was just the Home version stripped of Aero Glass. It was made for Netbooks. if you didnt buy a netbook, you would NEVER even see this version. So again how is that confusing?

Why not just say Tony, it confuses me because "I'm" not smart enough to know the difference.

Windows 8 as MS states comes in 2 retails versions. One will come on most pC's used at home and the Pro is for business. The other SKU's applied to China and Enterprise which most of us on State-side will never see. Windows RT comes on ARM tablets/pc's and Windows Phone.

Again what is the confusion? I don't know how YOU shop Tony, but most computer shoppers don't shop by which version of Windows is running on their PC.

They PC a PC based on cost. It si a gerenal rule that most consumer PC's come with the Home version of Windows and higher end systems come with Windows Pro...

Unless Best Buy or some other store is selling a business grade computer, that si the only way you get the Pro version. Pro is usually offered standard on computers ordered direct from Dell or HP or Leneovo and those are business lines of computers.

The only ones who are confused are the Microsoft bashing clueless readers and writers who like to keep mess going.

Plus TOny, even if you go to Best Buy and buy Windows in the box, when you choose Home or Pro, not only is the box color different, it list the features of the OS so the buyer has an idea which one suits them best based on usage. For anyone who has use Windows for at least a couple years will just stick to whatever they had.

The other 3 SKU's can't even be purchased on retail at all, and the Ultimate version isn't even avail on retail, it is only avail as OEM disks you can buy from resellers like MicroCenter or NewEgg.

Just, kill the word 'Apollo', and call it Windows Phone 8. Clean. No confusion.

No.

The most important detail you're ignoring is that Windows 8 on a tablet is a vastly inferior experience to WP7 on a phone. Why would they replace their extremely well designed OS with a pale imitation?

rak1948, on 18 April 2012 - 08:56 AM, said:

Other than the fact that there was no such thing as XP Ultra or Business? At least get some of your information straigt before randomly bashing MSFT.

"Metro on Windows Phone is strictly portrait, while Metro on Windows RT is strictly landscape."

Not true. Windows RT works in both portrait and landscape mode. We will find out if it is the same case for Windows Phone 8 on the 20th.

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