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Recent beta suggests five versions, but Microsoft says the number is undecided as yet

Windows Me may not have had much going for it, but it has one claim to fame: It was the last major release of Windows to come in a single edition, or SKU.

In the ensuing decade, every major release of desktop Windows has come in a wide -- too wide, say many -- variety of flavors.

By one count, Windows XP and Vista came in eight separate editions, if you include two Windows Media Player-free versions mandated by the European Union for anti-monopoly reasons.

Even Windows 2000, often romanticized for its small footprint, came in four versions.

This increase in Windows edition has bewildered many consumers, and led even ardent Windows fans to make dark jokes.

"I wonder whether Windows 7 will have 700 SKUs or if [Microsoft] will streamline that," Andrew Brust, a technology consultant and Microsoft MVP, has said on his Twitter page.

More: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9126960&source=NLT_AM

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