Ultimate is an upgrade option for Business and Enterprise. See your volume
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"Jeff Daly" <jeff_daly (@) hotmail (dot) com> wrote in message
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>I got an email today about the next shipment for the Microsoft Partners
>Action Pack Subscription. It seems like we will not be getting the
>Ultimate, but rather Vista Business. With Business it looks like we'll be
>missing out on the following new features:
>
> 1. BitLocker Drive Encryption - I don't really know how this works and I
> won't really be able to communicate this feature to my clients b/c I won't
> be using it myself.
>
> 2. Windows Media Center - not a big deal, but in my home-office I would
> have liked to try to make all this work since it might help me move into
> the residential market. I'd also LOVE to have this on my laptop to take
> recorded shows with me. :-) Maybe they'll play in Windows Media Player
> though...
>
> There may be more things that I missed, but I only looked at this page to
> see the differences in the various editions:
> [url]http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/editions/default.mspx[/url]
>
> It's probably too late to lobby MS to include Ultimate, but I thought I'd
> put it out there.
>
> Jeff[/color]