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Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
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    By Anonymous Coward  Jun 8, 2007 | 13 out of 14 found this Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium review helpful

    Pros: New

    Cons: New

    With Vista Home Premuim, you get almost everything a home user will need. What you do not get with the Operating System, you will likely be able to find third party solutions for now, or later in the year. There are exceptions to this, make sure you ...choose the Vista that is right for you. The primary consideration with a new Vista computer is more than just the Operating System. In choosing the hardware, make certain you get twice the amount of RAM required. The math is simple here, a Vista Premuim installation on a computer with 512 (home basic) 1034 (other versions) simply is not enough - it is akin to installing XP on a computer with 128 MB RAM. You WILL need additional RAM if you are installing other applications, and who doesn't do that? We all add things on later and this should be one of the primary concerns you have. Another primary concern is that if you plan on using hardware DEP, you do need a processor that is capale of taking full advantage of this technology integrated into Windows Vista. You need 64-bit processing capability (or dual core 32-bit that is extensible), the actual hardware DEP extension, and hardware virtualization. Without these three critical items, you will be unable to fully implement the security solution (which is becoming more necessary as time wears on). Vista is reasonably secure, and one of the methods implemented in the new Operating System is User Account Control. This amounts to a new layer of kernel protection, along with things like the confirmation dialog when certain activities are detected (like running a program). While some view these new features as an annoyance, the additional layer of security should give most people a new level of confidence in personal communications, e-commerce, and websurfing unavailable in previous versions of Windows. The bottom line on this is do you need it? With the recent announcement by Microsoft to extend support for XP to 2014, you may not need to adopt the new Operating system right away. Microsoft promises service packs for Vista every 18 months, which means it should have the stability and reliability that we have come to depend on with XP SP2 in about three years. While I did beta test for Vista, I do not run it on my main computer. I'm not comfortable with trusting my client data to an as yet unproven Operating System. However for the home user, this may be exactly what you have been looking for, and waiting for. I do recommend seeing if you can "test drive" a system that isn't "controlled environment" like a friends house. See the responsiveness. See the new features. Then decide if this is a must have, or a must wait. Read more Less

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    I HATE Windows Vista

    By Lina  Oct 5, 2007 | 6 out of 7 found this Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium review helpful

    Pros: I like the preview windows on the taskbar

    Cons: Everything! Numerous errors, various software incompatabilities, "easy transfer" not so easy, have to multi approve every application!

    You know, I did my best to go into Vista with an open mind. I had no choice, really, buying a new laptop through Dell and needing a built in camera, but I'm reasonably intelligent, I figured, "How bad could it be?" Bad. From the first... day, I have had little more than headaches with this operating system. First off, it's a pain in the butt to have to relocate every stinking program and utility that I use because category titles have changed, lists of programs are "reorganized" to supposedly make it easier to find, actually making it harder because I was used to the setup in XP. Why do the icons and programs have to change pictures or titles or both? It truly just makes my life with a new computer more difficult. So, installing my trusty favorite software onto my shiny new laptop, I discovered that 80% of my favorite games no longer work with my computer. :-( Seriously, tears. Some of these I've loved for years! What am I supposed to do now? And so begins the ever so lovely process of tracking down patches (if available), trying to get some tech support that I don't have to pay for (since this machine is less than a week out of the box!), and serious angst over not being able to run programs that should just work on my new computer! I can't even describe the joy. :-p Then, there are all the lovely pecadillos of learning how all the hardware on the new computer works and interfaces with the provided software through Vista. I got the built in webcam option thinking to make my life easer, but lo, the finicky thing doesn't want to work with its own microphone. I tried many different tactics to try and get it to work, and I know it does because I accidentally recorded some sound once ... it was a convoluted path that I was unable to rediscover (I'm no programmer, you know) ... though I eventually got sound to work by using an external connected microphone, which was also a simple, easy joy to set up and get working (please note dripping sarcasm). Other hardware issues include difficulties with having to set up and re-set up and re-set up the bluetooth full size keyboard that I purchased as an accessory, which is fine, now that I got the hang of how it's done ... but I really would have liked not having to learn it 4 times already. Why can't it just continue to recognize this particular device? It's not like I moved it anywhere ... Seriously, I know it's nicer to say nothing at all, but the truth needs to be told! I'm seriously upset that this garbage operating system was thrust on me. I've had more system and program errors in the last week of using this brand new computer with Vista on it than I have had in the last three months with my trusty XP PC. I didn't love XP at first either, but at least XP doesn't bing at me every time I try to start a program. "Do you want to run this?" * click click * YES! *bing* "We don't recognize blah, do you still want to run this program?" Umm ... that's Mozilla Firefox ... yesss!!! Just run the program already! Gosh, I appreciate that it's an extra level of security, but OMG, as if the hacker couldn't just click yes too already! It is so gosh darned annoying ... every time I start some of the programs I use daily! I have to say at least one good thing. I can think of one ... I guess I like that I can get a preview of the various open windows when I'm navigating on the taskbar. I appreciate that little feature. As far as I'm concerned, I really don't like Vista at all. In fact, hate is pretty close to my level of frustration. I'm going to try to get Dell to take this laptop back and install XP on it for me instead... I hear it's a pain to do it yourself, and often people are having difficulty with no sound after making the switch. I'm shooting to get Dell to do it free of charge ... after all, they forced th Read more Less

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    It's too early to send it out!

    By __A_YAHOO_USER__  Aug 19, 2007 | 4 out of 5 found this Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium review helpful

    Pros: it look nicer, more options, more gadgets. more security

    Cons: most of my favorite programs are not vista compatible! they sent this out too early! the voice recognition is bad, very bad!

    Did not like it at all! to everyone: DO NOT BUY VISTA! IT DOESN'T WORK WITH MOST OF YOUR PROGRAMS! my favorite games, my favorite chat programs, my basic JAVA runing softwares, ALL EATING DUST IN THE CORNER OF MY DESKTOP! stick with xp for now, t...ill things workout with Microsoft n their Vista! Read more Less

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    Microsoft thinks it can sell anything inc JUNK

    By JohnK  Sep 9, 2008

    Pros: fairly inexpensive

    Cons: Unix, XP, CPM all better OSs

    I am an "early adopter" computer user that harkens back to CPM days when Windows grabbed the market with an inferior product and heavy marketing. They have learned a valuable lesson -- with expensive advertising they can sell anything, incl...uding JUNK. Cudos to their marketing dept. Plus...a 512 K memory slot on my Thinkpad T30 went bad so I now have an expensive doorstop. (oops...I can go back to running XP thank goodness) Read more Less

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    MUCH Better Than What I Was Hearing

    By David J  Mar 12, 2008

    Pros: Very easy to use and very similar to XP in many ways

    Cons: Has some very minor bugs that I'm sure will be ironed out. Windows marketing could be better.

    My compliments about Windows Vista and my coplaints against MAC Leopard are much to long to list here. All I can say is that after trying both of them out, Vista is the clear winner for me. I can go almost anywhere with Vista's IE7. That was not ...the case with MAC Leopard's Safari. A lot of the secondary features are also easier to use on Vista than on MAC. BTW, anything that I rated as just OK are things that I haven't given that much thought to. But still, in my view, Windows vista is the clear winner here. Read more Less

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    Works Very Well

    By Tinastar  Aug 25, 2008 | 0 out of 1 found this Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium review helpful

    Pros: It allows you to keep orginized.

    Cons: You need to have at least 4GB of RAM

    Conpared to XP, it works very well. When you have a computer with Vista that has 4gb of ram, it is like a computer that works regular computer that has XP.
    This program keeps you orginized and has a great look to it.
    I highly recomend it!

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