Actually, what you say doesn't make much sense even now, but that's leave it at that. :)
The only realistic grief is that many people could argue that the Ultimate costs too much for what it offers (expecially considered that it looks like Microsoft canned the Extra Upgrades after the promises), but applications like BitLocker are actually quite costly and you are mostly paying for it. About the basic version, you must understand that there aren't only home and power users, and there are fields where you'll never need those features; the basic version is not indended for multimedia home users (for example a store will never need anything else than their accounting software, and why they should throw in the extra cash?).
The only realistic grief is that many people could argue that the Ultimate costs too much for what it offers (expecially considered that it looks like Microsoft canned the Extra Upgrades after the promises), but applications like BitLocker are actually quite costly and you are mostly paying for it. About the basic version, you must understand that there aren't only home and power users, and there are fields where you'll never need those features; the basic version is not indended for multimedia home users (for example a store will never need anything else than their accounting software, and why they should throw in the extra cash?).