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| Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1 Upgrade | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $129.95
Buy New: $79.99
You Save: $49.96 (38%)
New (31) Used (4) from $79.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 36
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Windows Vista
Media: DVD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 19.7 x 19.7
MPN: 66I-02388
Model: 66I-02388
UPC: 882224661324
EAN: 0882224661263
ASIN: B0013O54P8
Release Date: March 19, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New - Most Current Version - Fast Ship
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 Vista Upgrade, a challenge - Are you sure you want Vista? July 7, 2008
The all-purpose upgrade is only 'all-purpose' after several hours on the phone and in chat sessions with very courteous and willing people from far, far away. Seems MS forgets to include all the set-up steps in their
'works with XP & 2K' upgrade to Vista. Oh, and did you know that you will lose your reliable laser printer and many of your other PRE-Vista hardware and software tools....either MS doesn't speak their language or they do not speak Vista. It is like going back to the early days of IBM....the new model comes out and you can toss the old one, only MS is not the maker of the com-pooters...??? Apple keeps looking better and better, though so much more priceyl; if Mr. Jobs weren't such an eletist, marketing at the highest prices and caring nothing about the consumer's wants or needs....
You will appreciate the Vista help folks, when you finally are able to be transferred to them....they have a special department just for helping you load the software....if that doesn't give you a clue as to the holes in their programming, you will find out when you load the DVD. Good luck.
 Excellent July 5, 2008
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.
 My Vista SP1 Review June 28, 2008
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.
 Big Mistake June 24, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
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.
Ugh June 22, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
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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