Windows General Edition Question

[Human Being]

Well, this is just a general question about editions of "Windows OS" that Editions like "Previews" and "Enterprise" are the same terms for windows?Why "Builds" are made for windows?Also like in win7 editions like "HomePremium","Ultimate" etc etc why they are made?Because I've operated both of these editions of win7 and doesn't sounds different in terms of interface.(I don't know maybe I'm missing the difference between these two)

Any suggestions are well appreciated.
Thanks.

 

[junkeymonkey]

like what said here ??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions


from this list

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_versions


its all about money the less you spend the less you get per edition

 

[blazorthon]

A preview is not a version of Windows that gets sold. It is kinda like a beta, still in testing, but they're showing off what is there so far. Every time they make a new build means they changed something, updated something, added something, or removed something etc.

The different editions like Home Premium and Ultimate have different features. For example, Ultimate has a higher limit on how much memory it can work with than Home Premium, 192GB compared to only 16GB. The interface is mostly the same.

 

[Human Being]

Thanks junkeymonkey and blazrothon.

 

[Human Being]

And also why there's no Windows 9 why 10 is released instead of 9.I'm curious that there might be some kind of logic behind this....

 

[blazorthon]

Something about 9 was just like 8 and since 8 kinda flopped, they skipped 9. At least, that's what most people say. More official words from MS here:
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2691814/software/why-did-microsoft-skip-windows-9-and-jump-to-windows-10.html