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| Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1 Upgrade | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $129.95
Buy New: $67.95
You Save: $62.00 (48%)
New (44) Used (11) from $54.09
Avg. Customer Rating:  88 reviews
Sales Rank: 34
Format: Dvd-rom
Platform: Windows Vista
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Home Premium - Upgrade
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.5
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: Upgrade to Windows Vista Home Premuim. Is brand new, factory sealed. 100% guaranteed. Will ship USPS Priority mail
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| Customer Reviews:
Wish I Was Running XP April 14, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
After using Vista for about two weeks, I absolutely hated it. I was seriously considering taking back my new laptop. Fortunately, I realized that I could shut off UAC. This is the annoying feature that CONSTANTLY asks you if Vista is allowed to perform any given action. Getting rid of that has made me content using Vista.
My other gripes are the same ones you will find everywhere else. Compared to XP, Vista is slow and hogs large amounts of resources. Simply put, it is fairly inefficient. Make sure your computer goes above and beyond the recommended specs.
In the end, I wish I could go back to XP, and I won't buy a Mac. So, I guess I am stuck here for a while.
 Getting cheaper and still not worth a dollar. April 14, 2008
5 out of 19 found this review helpful
Windows Vista, what else can be said to deter people from upgeading to this unreliable, bloated operating system. Nothing new comes out of this OS, you once get another leftover version of windows 95 with all new problems and headaches for the user. I switched to Mac after upgrading to Vista on my compaq laptop, it was so horrible I was forced to choose an alternitive and im so glad I did. Anyone who defends Windows, it's virusus, it's relentless Messenger service, it's crashes, blue screen's of death and down right pain in the backside interface has never tried OS X or Xandros Linux. Ubuntu went the way of Vista as well looks good but doesen't work. So try OS X and leave Windows and it's headaches for the windows fanboys.
A waste of money April 14, 2008
8 out of 15 found this review helpful
Impossible to install in my computer although the system is more that ready to handle this awful product from Microsoft. After installed, the computer kept crashing over and over, every time I upgraded a driver or install an application.
It was so frustrating that I decided to go back to Windows XP. No problems with the computer with Windows XP Professional. This was a waste of money on an OS that looks to be incomplete. This Upgrade was a nightmare.
Terrible Product ! ! - See the Non-Upgrade Version For Real Reviews April 13, 2008
16 out of 28 found this review helpful
I am an advanced/expert Windows user, computing since the days of DOS. It is simply a fact that this Vista OS is absolutely terrible. Look into actual reviews, not those posted by Microsoft employees. You will regret purchasing Vista I assure you. Read the reviews under the full product, not the upgrade which has very, very few reviews posted. If you have not yet bought a new computer, I suggest you buy a MAC. I, unfortunately, recently bought another IBM computer, and esp. with the Vista OS (which I am replacing with XP) am regreting it daily.
 I've You Haven't Upgraded Yet, Perhaps Now's the Time April 13, 2008
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
You have to admit that Vista didn't get off to a banging good start. Many people thought it was bloated, slow, crashed all the time and the endless stories about those popups that kept questioning you would keep all but the reckless thinking twice before they upgraded from XP. In fact a year after its release it seems only a little over ten percent of the XP users out there have decided to upgrade.
I've been using Vista since it came out and have been very happy with it. Yes you need more RAM than you did a couple years ago, I've got 2 megs on my laptop, which is plenty for Vista Home Premium. And I've got a whopping 4 megs on my desktop, which is running Vista Ultimate and that's way, way more than needed. My computers both seem happy enough and I know they're not fooling me, because when they get unhappy they crash and that's something they haven't done in a long time (three months for my laptop and I think six or more for my desktop).
Is Vista bloated? Yes, sure, that's what happens when an operating systems (despite it's many flavors) tries to be all things to all people. Still, if you don't need the features, don't use them. It's not like todays computers are hurting for hard drive space. With 200 gigs in my laptop and 750 in my desktop, those features I don't use sitting in the background don't bother me at all.
And those annoying UAC (User Account Control) popups and they are annoying, you don't have to live with those. If you've been using computers for anytime at all and have more than a clue about what you're doing, why don't you just turn them off. I did. Just type "system configuration" into Vista's Start Menu's instant search feature. When the System Configuration Utility window opens, click the tools tab, scroll down, click on "disable user control," click "launch", click "okay", then reboot and voila, those annoying popups are history.
Now about the speed, yes, Vista "was" and that's the operative word here as far as I'm concerned, it was a bit slower than XP on my machines, but now thats I've installed the SP1 upgrades on my machines, they both seem zippier. So if you're still using XP and have been thinking about upgrading, now's the time.
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