Sammyinnit Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 (edited) Windows Vista Client/Server Product Key SKUs Revealed Upon digging around in Vista, I came across an XML file filled with alpha-numeric gibberish, quickly identified as base64 encoded data. I slapped it into my favorite web-based decoder and found some interesting product key SKUs... If you look closely, very closely, you'll see there's 20 SKUs. I won't bore you with what all these mean, so here's the list in with interesting SKUs in boldface: Windows Vista Starter Windows Vista Home Basic Windows Vista Home Premium Windows Vista Ultimate Windows Vista Pro Standard/SB Longhorn Enterprise Server (ADS) Longhorn Enterprise Server - IA64 Longhorn Standard Server Longhorn Datacenter Server Windows Vista Pro Std/SB/Ent - VL Binding Service Windows Vista Pro Std/SB/Ent - VLGeneric Windows Vista Pro Std/SB/Ent - DMAK Windows Vista Starter Digital Boost - OEM Windows Vista Home Basic - OEM Windows Vista Home Premium - OEM Windows Vista Ultimate - OEM Windows Vista Pro Standard/SB - OEM Longhorn Enterprise Server - OEM Windows Vista Home Basic N Windows Vista Pro Standard N Longhorn Enterprise Server - IA64 Jesus christ, I thought IA64 was dying. Hopefully this SKU merely exists for those diehard IA64 hardware fans at Microsoft... Windows Vista Pro Std/SB/Ent - VL Binding Service I'm not sure what the difference is between the generic volume license SKU and this one -- A sign of secure VLKs in the future? Windows Vista Pro Std/SB/Ent - DMAK I'm sure this is nothing special, but I don't know what the DMAK acronym stands for... or if it even is an acronym... Windows Vista Starter Digital Boost - OEM Now this is very interesting. The name implies this is some form of Vista Starter Edition with a 'digital boost', whatever that means. I'm a genius, I know. http://www.extended64.com/blogs/rafael/arc...10/10/1407.aspx Edited October 12, 2005 by Unknown User Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-hurley18 Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 Links broken but nice find :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Live Veteran Posted October 12, 2005 Veteran Share Posted October 12, 2005 Why not just wait til they're officially announced. There have been no less than 5 different rumored "lists." What do you think the chances are that are right or paint a complete picture? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammyinnit Posted October 12, 2005 Author Share Posted October 12, 2005 Link fixed ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts