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GoldLyrics.com - Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1 Upgrade
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List Price: $129.95
Our Price: $119.49
Your Save: $ 10.46 ( 8% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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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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: Pretty, but sluggish
Comment: Above all else, an OS should always be responsive to user input. When I click on multiple files and select delete, I don't want to see a "Preparing to delete." message. This is lazy programming on the part of Microsoft. When I right click a broken shortcut to delete it and the PC spends 30 to 40 seconds trying to find the link, this is ridiculous. On a regular basis my computer locks up for minutes while Vista is "thinking".
Maybe many PC users don't know any better and think this is the way computers work. I've used Apple, Linux, and Windows computers. None of them are perfect, other OS's usually do a better job than Vista. With Microsoft's large resources you would think they could put out something much better than this. All the time spent on "eye candy" would have been better spend on the back end making the OS more efficient.
If Vista looked the same as XP but ran faster and was more responsive, would users thought it was better? I don't know. I just know that PC's are much more powerful than they were just a few years ago, and Vista still manages to drag them into the mud. Faster PC's aren't a license for bad programming...
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Summary: It's vista... what else can i say
Comment: it does what its suppose to do, i did have one problem during ordering though. the website makes the product seem like it a full version of vista with the service pack 1 as the upgrade(even though they prominently showed a picture). luckily i wasn't at home when the product arrived and was able to order vista basic in order to use the upgrade. other than that slight problem, as i posted in the title... its vista. it could be better. I've been a windows user since win95 and even had a chance to dabble a bit with (blah) win3.1. when you look back at those OS's, MS has come a long way. OH and one more thing. If you are looking for the 64-bit versions of ANY of the vista software except for ultimate, you have to order the 64-bit DVD after you get the product. kind of an inconvenience since they make you pay for the shipping and i think for the DVD itself. after i learned that and saw how fast my comp ran with 4gb of ram (for some reason premium recognizes all 4gb while basic only sees 3.77gb) i decided to just hold on to the other 2x2gb sticks i have for safe keeping.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Hardware? Be sure!
Comment: Overall, I am happy with Vista. Don't let the bad hype make you think twice about upgrading. All the programs I use have been running properly on it.
The issue I had with it was on installing it. You really do need at least a DVD rw optical drive. You can get the product from Microsoft on cds for another $10.75. Then when it's time to validate the install, you'll get a message to purchase another license. Don't worry, eventually their database will be updated so you can validate the product. I did not know this, and found the process to be very frustrating.
Upgrade? Definitely. But make sure you have upgraded your hardware first. Have at least 2 gigabytes of RAM as well. One gig will run it, but not well.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Impressed!
Comment: I seldom ever buy anything when it first comes out and Vista was no exception. Once all the 'bugs' are worked out of a program, then I consider the purchase, but also expect to not pay full price when it was first available either. Amazon allowed me to find the program at almost half the original price with the same quality. I am very impressed with Windows Vista and have had no problems once I upgraded my whole computer to be compatible with the newer program! BE SURE and have at least 2GB of RAM though as Vista takes almost an entire GB to run!
Customer Rating:
Summary: The Master Thief Strikes Again
Comment: Don't expect your old software or peripherals (printers, scanners, etc) to work on this piece of crap. They might...but don't count on it. Oh, and if you've heard that you can downgrade back to XP if you don't like Vista, be forewarned: this only applies to the Business Versions. Home versions, forget it. "You are, as they say, SOL"--Gregg Keizer, Computer World.
So we're stuck with whatever Lord Gates commands us to use. Once more.
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