Supporting Vista Versions

I was reading about the 5 different versions of Vista earlier.
Lets forget MCE, Tablet and x64 for the moment.
What struck me was the difficulties that supporting 5 different versions would produce.
 
As you would expect, being a Shell/User MVP, I answer questions about issues people have with XP.
The problem is, I don't always know what version they have, they don't tell you in the initial post.
I have found myself typing long replies only to realise, it may be wrong, they might be using XP Home not XP Pro.
 
Vista with 5 versions will only exacerbate this. It's going to be real fun trying to remember the features of each version and worse still, differing implementations of the same feature in a particular version.
 
Published Saturday, April 01, 2006 12:26 AM by Mark Dormer
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Monday, April 03, 2006 8:26 AM by Matt Gerlach

# re: Supporting Vista Versions

Yea, that will definetly be hard for you, and people who support windows as well.

I think one of the largest "issues", will be that people wont have the right specs or hardware for the OS. I see that problem for atleast the first year, as people try to update their existing PCs.
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