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Microsoft unveils Vista upgrade matrix
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006
Microsoft has already laid the groundwork for confusion over the release of Windows Vista, with 
their announcement that the new operating system will come in as many as six different versions. A few of these can be discounted for most users, such as the crippled Starter Edition designed for delivery to third-world markets, and the Enterprise Edition which will typically find itself in the big Fortune 500 office. This still leaves four different skus: Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, and Ultimate.
Home Basic is functionally equivalent to XP Home, and Home Premium adds Media Center features among others. Business is the equivalent of today’s XP Pro, and Ultimate is the superset of all of them. So with four versions, how do upgrades work from XP Pro and XP Home? Microsoft has kindly produced a chart to sort everything out. Microsoft unveils Vista upgrade matrix
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