Raphael of Extended64 did some 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.

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.

Here is Paul's list

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