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| Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1 | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $269.99
Buy New: $145.00
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New (39) Used (4) from $145.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  117 reviews
Sales Rank: 148
Format: Dvd-rom
Platform: Windows Vista
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Home Premium
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 66I02387
Model: 66I-02387
UPC: 882224661256
EAN: 0882224661256
ASIN: B0013O54OE
Release Date: March 19, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Still Way Short of the Mark August 5, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I tried installing this on a somewhat older laptop (but which should have met the criteria for Vista). The result was less than stellar. It took me three tries before it fully finished the install, taking almost three hours.
But the fun really started when it finished the install, as all of a sudden it decided that it wouldn't recognize the hardware for my mother-board based ethernet or my video configuration (it defaulted to the generic video driver). Searching for the appropriate ethernet files on another computer (as I obviously couldn't access the net with the laptop) was an exercise in frustration. When I did finally find what I thought were the right driver files, I placed them on a ramstick and tried to transfer them to the laptop - nope, Vista didn't recognize the ramstick as a viable drive.
Having now invested almost a full day trying to get this to work, I finally gave up and re-installed my XP operating system. Until Microsoft gets a lot more support for legacy hardware and comes complete with at least default drivers that can give at least minimal functionality with such hardware, I recommend that this OS be avoided.
---Reviewed by Patrick Shepherd (hyperpat)
 Vista . . . improvement, but more needed July 27, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Vista seems like a Microsoft version of a Mac OS except it is slow and irritating in all the areas it falls so far short by comparison. Granted though, it has to secure a computer against a whole lot more viruses, etc than a Mac OS is expected to do. Given a level playing field in that respect, it is hard to say which would truly be better. This software certainly won't dissuade me from my loyalty to Macs but I really do appreciate the efforts Microsoft is making in terms of improved graphics, search functions, etc. And my one year old son certainly prefers the Windows Media Player visualizer over the one on iTunes. Apparently, it's better than any of his videos!
Windows Vista Home Premium July 27, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Windows vista not as good as windows xp, wish I would not have spent money for it.
The Latest OS from Windows, BUT ... July 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Vista is the latest OS from the Windows family. I started way back when, say, Windows 3.1. Each new family member got filled up with more features, got bigger (and how), and needed more and more resident hard drive space along with working memory to actually do its business. Now in Vista we are offered what are aimed at being the latest improvements.
I am not sure about that word, improvements.
For the average home user, who already has a number of different familiar programs that he or she uses -rarely, somewhat, frequently, quite often? - Vista may indeed be a mixed blessing. An a master OS that you need to make all your other software programs go, Vista is glitchy and quirky. The central catch is that, when it comes to compatibility with older existing software programs, Vista may or may not be friendly. Vista is not all that backwards compatible. So you may indeed find that you have to go back to the store to upgrade, either to the latest vesions of your fav software uses, or to entirely new ones which promise to be Vista compatible.
Reinstall. Then hope for the best.
If you are just getting up and running, this is not an issue because you are starting from zero programs and all can install/grow up together.
If you are upgrading Windows primarily, then the glitchiness and incompatibilities of Vista - with other older existing software generally, and even with some older Windows programs - may mean that you are really starting completely over.
A strong Windows product then, but watch out and approach with thought and caution if you are upgrading insteading of replacing your entire computer system at home, including all the rest of your software. Oh boy do I wish it were otherwise. I went back to Windows XP just because I could not really migrate everything I needed from the past to work in the new Windows Vista OS. In some cases, the only way to get compatibility with existing other programs was to do research on the net and find ways to go into Vista and turn off some of its spiffy new features, which helped. Time, trouble, and what a user headache, ouch.
 Good product, but with many flaws July 11, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
As has been reported by many other reviewers, there are significant problems with Vista. Yet despite its flaws, it is a great user friendly product, which explains in large part its continued dominance as the desktop operating system.
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