Question

I'm about to jump to a new machine that has Vista Home Premium 64 installed. I do development with VS2008. I have an Ultimate 64 license and disc so I can repave if I have to.

What are the day-to-day operational differences between Home Premium and Ultimate? I know that IIS7 is supposed to be "stripped-down" but what does that really mean?

What about networking and authorization?

Was it helpful?

Solution

The big items for me are that Ultimate has domain join capabilities, and also remote desktop support - both of those features are left out of Home Premium.

Other than that - the Ultimate edition is pretty much a union of the features in Business and Home Premium editions.

I use the Ultimate edition for my development laptops, and the Business edition for my workstations - and have had no issues with IIS on either of those versions.

OTHER TIPS

Of course, it's Microsoft Tinker, a game that came with the Ultimate extras last year ;)

Other than that and Dreamscene (you know, animated desktop backgrounds, absolutely essential for VS developers), I didn't miss any features on Home Premium. I didn't know that Home Premium doesn't have RDP and Domain Join capabalities, but didn't need those two features on my Home Premium machine anyway.

I had a problem with the 64 bits , I couldn't find drivers for some hardware (SmartCards, Security Tokens, etc... ), it was only available for 32 bits for some OEMs

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