I just read some propaganda yesterday where MS is only going to have 3 versions of 7
7 Home Premium (no basic or any other names)
7 Pofessional/business (to appeal to XP Pro users in namesake)
7 Ultimate (of course)
All versions had touch enabled, aero, except Home didnt have the VPN and RDP(I think, or maybe not multiple RDP), pro/biz does, but doesnt have the bit locker and bit locker to go and one other feature i fail to recall atm. But this is being done to turn away from the mess of versions of Vista there was.
MS isnt quite sure of this starter edition, as they are trying these out on SSD in mobile computers and hand held devices, tablets etc, but they would have to have touch enabled as well.
take with grains of salt i say, RC isnt out just yet anyhow
[edit] oh yea, about the forgotten feature... it was the VHD in ultimate... when i read all this, i was like big deal.... no major reasons why it would make alot of ppl switch from one version to the other, just us geeks