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pet-services.net - Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1 Upgrade
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List Price: $129.95
Our Price: $77.99
Your Save: $ 51.96 ( 40% )
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Manufacturer: Microsoft Software
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Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Microsoft
EAN: 0882224661263
Feature: User-friendly software combines the features of Windows Vista Home Basic with even more impressive and user-friendly capabilities
Format: DVD-ROM
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Microsoft Software
Manufacturer: Microsoft Software
Model: 66I-02388
Platform: Windows Vista
Publisher: Microsoft Software
Release Date: 2008-03-19
Studio: Microsoft Software
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Features
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User-friendly software combines the features of Windows Vista Home Basic with even more impressive and user-friendly capabilities
Features Windows Aero, an efficient and visually stunning interface that makes it easier to accomplish multiple tasks at once by providing a three-dimensional, real-time, animated view of all of your open applications, and documents
By integrating search throughout the operating system, helps you quickly find and organize large collections of documents, pictures, movies, videos, and music
Includes Windows Tablet and Touch Technology that enables you to interact with your Tablet PC-compatible computer with a digital pen or your fingertip instead of having to use a keyboard
Includes all of the Windows Media Center capabilities for turning your PC into an all-in-one home entertainment center; enjoy music, photos, and DVD movies
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Vista is junk
Comment: I tried Vista and I hated Vista. It has so many issues, is slow, and had many hardware conflicts. Stick with XP for now and then hope Windows 7 is much better.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Congratulations Microsoft, I now want a Mac...
Comment: This is the most bloated OS I have ever used.. it was slow when I got it on my brand new laptop and with every update (which seem to come numerous times a week) it seems to get slower.
If you have XP save your money.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A few improvements, many drawbacks
Comment: Vista is essentially the operating system your grandma would love... anything you try to do, the screen goes black and a pop-up warns you of dire consequences. If you try to install a program or customize anything, it wants to stop you. If, on the other hand, you have no idea what you're doing but just want to upload pictures of the grandkids and send an email to your bingo group, it's easy as cake.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not really great or awful...but I will get a Mac next
Comment: The Good:
-It is relatively stable - I've had a couple issues with stability with regard to getting my laptop to respond after going to sleep, but that was early on (pre SP1) and I haven't had any real issues in this way for quite awhile.
-Has a decent degree of support built-in. Usually it does bring up menus to help you along when a networking problem or something like that comes up.
-Security better than previous Windows. While the prompting for changes that you request is annoying at times, it also makes it presumably harder to hijack the computer.
The indifferent:
-Graphics are better looking than most OS, but this is not really a huge plus in functionality; I use Vista the same general way I use XP.
-The Sidebar gadgets went away after awhile and haven't come back...so-so features that seemed to slow down the computer.
The Bad:
-Updates... Lots of updates, and I swear it can take hours-days with multiple restarts before the updating is completed.
-Speed... Or lack thereof.
-Start-up... The worst of the speed issues occur at start-up. The Vista startup takes several minutes.
-The hidden preferences... When Vista makes a preference easy to get to, it does it better than XP. The problem comes with the myriad of hard-to-get to preferences that can affect all kinds of different issues. By default it will set a huge chunk of hard-drive aside for backup purposes...so much that my hard-drive was quickly disappearing. To change this was not a simple process. This has happened more than a few times with Vista - something that should be easily done, isn't
-Driver support, or lack thereof... Worse driver support than XP, leading to the usage of questionable drivers or subpar 'supported' drivers.
-Backwards compatibility not all there... Does allow for "compatibility mode" in which it runs a program as if it is running an older version of Windows, which is good because several programs (mostly games) won't work until put in XP mode.
While post SP1 Vista is an improvement, the slowness of startup and other issues have pushed me to Ubuntu and Mac...
Customer Rating:
Summary: Vista software
Comment: I bought the windows vista home premium with SP1 upgrade from Amazon. I am very happy with it. Just remember to save everything you want before installing the software.
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Upgrade to the preferred edition of Windows for home desktop and mobile PCs. Windows Vista Home Premium includes Windows Media Center, which helps you more easily enjoy your digital photos, TV, movies, and music. Plus, you'll have the peace of mind of knowing that your PC has a whole new level of security and reliability.
Windows DVD Maker - Burn your photo slide shows & home movies to a video DVD and watch them on a DVD player or PC Windows Movie Maker - Capture, edit, and publish your digital home movies in standard or high-definition format Instant Search & Windows Internet Explorer 7 - Quickly find what you need Elegant Windows Aero desktop experience with glass-like menu bars, Windows Flip 3D, & Live Thumbnails Automatic backup of your files, such as your digital photos, music, movies, documents Built-in parental controls. Supports the Parental Controls Games Restrictions for ratings from the Korean Game Rating Board (GRB) Enhanced MPEG-2 decoder to support content protection on Media Center systems configured with Digital Cable Tuner hardware You are now required to enter a password hint during the initial setup of Windows Vista SP1 so you don't forget it later Upgrade from Windows XP or Windows 2000System Requirements 800 MHz processor & 512 MB of system memory 20 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space Super VGA graphics support
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