Originally Posted by Splash
As Hexxeh says... if anything, Ultimate is likely to have a slightly higher load than Home Premium or Business if only because out of the box it has more guff running. Got any evidence of your own?
Your comment about the "stability" of Ultimate and XP Pro... confuses me. Are you implying that the versions of Windows aimed at home users are in some way less stable by design? What kind of business model would that be?
Are you familiar with the whole license pricing of microsoft for the various business'? Microsoft makes far more money from business than they do for home users and as such, focus will always remain more on business users.
I quote from my humble technical support experience of working with xp home/xp pro/vista home premium/vista ultimate/vista business and my 5 years of IT technical support in a financial and multimedia industry testing and supporting with suppliers/in-house programs/bloomberg/datastream/office 2007 and office 2003/data storage for a SME of 300 people.
I know it might be strange to you, but I have compared performance issues of various OS for stability. Unfortunately, I have found vista ultimate to be far more stable than vista business when doing comparisons as well as XP home and XP Pro. this is just my humble experience, so if you have had nothing but smooth sailing in your experience, then thats good but my recommendation will still stand based on my past experience