Tom's Hardware > Forum > Games General > PC Gaming > Gaming: Vista Premium vs Business
Ask the community Add a reply
Word :    Username :           
 
inertiat   07-28-2008 at 01:24:37 AM

Hi,

I've noticed a lot of GFX card reviews are done with Vista Business 64 and not Home Premium 64. Is there a special reason for this to do with performance or special features? If both are 64-bit then surely the performance should be the same?
Thanks

Add a reply
Sponsored Links
Register or log in to remove.
thogrom   07-28-2008 at 02:20:36 AM
- 0 +

Aren't businesses given an evaluation copy of windows vista? so the business edition could be the free thing... and then the sites are being cheap and using it in their test rigs...

at least that's what i'd do :kaola:

Reply to thogrom
amdfangirl   07-28-2008 at 02:22:12 PM
- 0 +

Almost the same... almost neglectable. It comes down to reactivation or something

Message quoted 1 times
Reply to amdfangirl
ainarssems   07-28-2008 at 04:28:06 PM
- 0 +

They normally use enterprise not business, to avoid reactivation problems as they reinstall alot so that they can make all tests in same conditions on a fresh windows install. There should not be any perfomance differences between different versions it is just a features included in different versions. Check out this link to compare features of different versions: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/w [...] fault.aspx Enterprise I think have the same feature set as Business only different activation.

Reply to ainarssems
strangestranger   07-28-2008 at 04:34:41 PM
- 0 +

amdfangirl wrote :

Almost the same... almost negligible. It comes down to reactivation or something



fixed

------------------------------ I'm a git, deal with it.

Antec 1200,PC Power & Cooling 750,Gigabyte DS4-x48,Intel Q9550@3.4 W/Xigmatek S1283,8GB OCZ DDR2 800,ATI 4870X2,X-FI>CA 640C amp>Tannoy R300/Senn 595's
 Reply to strangestranger
spuddyt   07-28-2008 at 04:35:36 PM
- 0 +

yeah, THG definitely said it was to do with reactivations and reinstalling, since they change hardware and software so much, they dont want to have to phone up M$ every single time (or even every 10 times) they reinstall
^I see the grammar police are still at full strength, keep up the good work


Message edited by spuddyt on 07-28-2008 at 04:36:37 PM
Reply to spuddyt
asdasd123123   07-28-2008 at 08:21:58 PM
- 0 +

If you don't click "activate when I'm online" you get 30 days to enter your code.
And if you really won't be running a system for more than a few days, why even enter a code?

Reply to asdasd123123
amdfangirl   07-29-2008 at 10:44:25 AM
- 0 +

^ True, but think of all the reinstalls... painful...

^2 I see that Firefox has no grammar functions

Reply to amdfangirl
jimmysmitty   07-29-2008 at 04:38:15 PM
- 0 +

For businesses and colleges there is a Corporate Edition (may have been renamed to Enterprise) that gives unlimited installs no activation. Its part of MSDN.

I used to have a Corporate Edition of XP Pro that never needed activation. That was until the serial number somehow became blocked.

------------------------------ http://www.steamcalculator.com/76561197970703804/camo_sig.png
 Reply to jimmysmitty
Ask the community Add a reply
Tom's Hardware > Forum > Games General > PC Gaming > Gaming: Vista Premium vs Business
Go to:

There are 704 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here.

Forum map
Bestofmedia Forum ©
2000-2009 Bestofmedia Group
Page generated in 0.357 seconds
Please mind

You are about to answer a thread that has been inactive for more than 6 months.
If you still wish to proceed, please ensure that your posting is original and does not duplicate or overlap any prior responses to this thread.

Add a reply Cancel
Sponsored links
  • Ask the community now
  • Publish
Ad
They won a badge
Join us in greeting them