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Nabaza.net-The MarketPlace - Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1 Upgrade
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List Price: $129.95
Our Price: $110.49
Your Save: $ 19.46 ( 15% )
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Manufacturer: Microsoft Software
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Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Microsoft
EAN: 0882224661324
Feature: User-friendly software combines the features of Windows Vista Home Basic with even more impressive and user-friendly capabilities
Format: CD-ROM
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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Editorial Reviews:
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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 2000
System 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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Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent
Comment: I guess I am one of the few who like vista. I feel it is the best os from Microsoft bar none.Even compared to xp sp3 which is faster than sp2 Vista is still faster on my system anyway. Works very well with my computer what can I say I am satisfied.
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Summary: My Vista SP1 Review
Comment: Vista is great very nice interface, fast boot times (faster then XP).
But a word of caution you need a newer processor (I would recommend a dual core), at least 2 gigs of Ram, and a descent video card. Also do not expect that your older programs will all run under vista many older versions will not, expect to be upgrading afew programs. But after trying it out for two months now I will not be going back to XP, There was certainly some frustration and learning involved in changing to a new operating system but eventually XP will no longer be supported and you will have to make the change.
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Summary: Big Mistake
Comment: I've owned a new 3.0GB intel Pentium D dual core computer for about two months, now, that came with Vista Home Premium. Knowing what I know now, I would never have bought a Vista machine. I've spent almost half my working time since then trying to solve operating system problems.
Vista will not synchronize PIM info with my Pocket PC, in fact, it looks like Microsoft has abandoned the Pocket PC, altogether, but I had to spend hours and hours experimenting and trying innefective "fixes" to find that out. Gee, I wonder why they don't advertise that?
Vista constantly interferes with and disrupts the operation of my MSOffice applications (OfficeXP Professional). Outlook will not save my email passwords with Vista and they have to be manually entered each time it updates email. Every time. While I'm working a dialoge box pops up to ask for my password in each email account. I have to stop and enter it or it will pop up again in a minute or two. I tried turning off email updates, but Vista won't let that preference be saved, either. Word and Excel are erratic as well. I have the very latest version of Internet Explorer, but it won't save History of sites visited. Yes, I've played with all the settings. A little research yielded the fact that Microsoft knows all this - they have knowledge base articles on the topics that send you in circles -without any solution.
Many Software applications (obviously including Microsoft applications) must be upgraded to work with Vista, some work poorly, some don't work at all.
I hold a multi-user license to excellent Anti-Virus Software I like much better than Norton or McAfee; very effective and unobtrusive. Even with the Vista version it can't start automatically at boot with Vista, which not only means I have to remember to start it manually every day, sometimes forgetting, it means it can't remove certain viruses that require a re-boot deletion.
So by "UPGRADING" to Vista, I have, in essence, thrown away hundreds of dollars in software and hardware, most of which, I assume, Microsoft intends to recoup when I buy something from them to do what the old stuff was doing perfectly well before the "UPGRADE."
If you google "downgrade to XP" you'll find almost a quarter of a million links.
There's a reason for that.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Ugh
Comment: I hate it. It offers no real advantages over XP, is slower, works with less stuff, and keeps getting stuck. I'm downgrading to XP...
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Summary: Ignore the Apple commercials. Vista is a great OS.
Comment: I've had my laptop since August 2007. It came with Vista Home Premium 32 bit installed on it and I upgraded to SP1 when it was released.
I will say this outright: I used XP before Vista and if your computer can run Vista smoothly, Vista will kick XP out the window. There are 3 things one must have to run Vista smoothly: a good processor (this is the minor one of the 3 since most people have good processors), a good video card, and at least 2GB of RAM. The video card and RAM are extremely important. If you don't have these, you will most likely not have a good Vista experience. One of Microsoft's mistakes when they created Vista was the RAM usage. The standard amount of RAM needed to run XP is less than 1GB. The standard amount of RAM needed for Vista is at least 2GB. Technically, I believe it can run on 1GB of RAM but I don't trust that. Vista is a much more powerful OS than XP, which is why it needs the good hardware. My computer is an HP Pavilion dv6000. I have an Intel Core Duo (not Core 2) 2GHz processor, 160GB hard drive and 2GB of RAM. I actually have an Intel chipset for graphics and my computer still runs fine. I do wish that I had gotten a graphics card just to make the performance even better. On a daily basis, with just the startup programs running, about 1GB of my RAM is used up. One of the coolest things about Vista is it's smart. If a program stops working, then Vista will automatically recognize the situation and search for a solution. I'm pretty sure XP doesn't do that.
My only complaint about Vista was the boot up time (notice I said "was", not "is"). My computer used to take 6 minutes to boot up in the morning. I didn't mind it though because I start my computer up while I'm getting dressed, etc. in the morning. SP1 cut the boot up time in half. The UAC is annoying, but you can turn it off. I have never had any problems with drivers, crashes, instability, blue screens of death, incompatibility issues, or anything else of that nature. When I plug in something like a new USB device, Vista finds the driver and installs it automatically within seconds. For the people who are having problems, I think the cause might be the hardware. Don't be so fast to blame Vista or Microsoft. Check your computer's hardware too.
Some people say Vista takes getting used to because everything is moved around. Not true. Some things are moved, but they are only moved in minor ways. Vista is a lot like XP in my opinion. The interface is Vista's strength. It kicks XP's butt. The sidebar is also cool. Vista's interface makes XP look like a basic piece of junk.
A little on Microsoft Office 2007. Yes, it's a different interface than the previous versions. But, it's very neatly and intuitively organized that it's pretty easy to learn. It took me about 10 minutes to learn Word 2007. The functions are organized first by 7 main tabs, which are Home, Insert, Page Layout, References, Mailing, Review, View. Then they are further subdivided into categories. Here's an example of the organization: say you're typing a Word document and you want to spell check it. Which main tab would you find spell check under? You're reviewing the document, right? So go to review. Spell check is the first function. It's under the subcategory of Proofing. Guess where bibliography tools are located? Under References and under the subcategory Citations & Bibliography. Very well and intuitively organized.
I recently let my mom use my laptop because the computer we have in our house is an outdated piece of crap (Pentium 3 700MHz, 300something MB of RAM). She isn't tech savvy at all and barely knows what OS stands for. She had never used Vista or Office 2007 prior to using my laptop. When she was done using it I asked her how she liked Vista and Office 2007. She loved them. Of course, my dad won't dare install Vista on our home computer because he would be screwed on the hardware by a mile.
Another thing: as I'm writing this I have 5 of my most RAM consuming programs running: Media Center, Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, and iTunes. I think my laptop is running slightly slower than it normally does, but the difference is hard to notice.
Overall, Vista is a great operating system and it makes XP look like crap IF your computer has the hardware to handle it. People who are having problems should check their computer hardware and not be so fast to blame Microsoft and Vista. When I see the Apple commercials that make fun of Vista I laugh at them because one of my friends who is very tech savvy, smart, and majoring in computer engineering told me that Leopard got hacked within 2 hours of being released and that MacBook Air got hacked within 2 minutes. And by the way, I'm not a Microsoft employee. I'm a college student.
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