Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1010 in Software
• Brand: Microsoft
• Released on: 2007-01-30
• Platform: Windows Vista
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Dimensions: 19.68" h x 19.68" w x 19.68" l, .68 pounds

Computer Shopper
Vista is far easier to use than Windows XP

Manufacturer's Description
Windows Vista Home Premium is the preferred edition for home desktop and mobile PCs. It provides a breakthrough design that brings your world into sharper focus while delivering the productivity, entertainment, and security you need from your PC at home or on the go.Windows Vista Home Premium delivers the productivity and entertainment that you need from your PC at home or on the go. It 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. All together, Windows Vista Home Premium redefines enjoyment in home computing.It starts with a breakthrough design that makes your PC easier to use every day. With Windows Aero, you'll experience dynamic reflections, smooth gliding animations, transparent glass-like menu bars, and the ability to switch between your open windows in a new three-dimensional layout. Instant desktop search capabilities, coupled with powerful new ways to organize and visualize your information, means you can instantly find and use the e-mails, documents, photos, music, and the other information you want, when you need it.Windows Vista Home Premium also helps keep your personal information, your PC, and your family computing experience safer than in previous versions of Windows. For example, Windows Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista includes automated defenses against malicious software and fraudulent websites so you can use your PC online with greater confidence. Windows Vista Home Premium also provides automatic backup of your files, such as your valuable digital photos, music, movies, documents, and other files, so you can relax and focus on the things you care about most. And, by using the built-in parental controls, parents can help ensure their children's computer use is appropriate and safer.And what about fun? A major advance in Windows Vista Home Premium is the dramatically improved digital entertainment experience. Windows Media Center makes organizing and enjoying photos, music, DVDs, recorded TV, and home movies easier and more fun. Windows Vista Home Premium makes it easier to burn your photo slide shows and home movies to a professional-looking video DVD that your friends and family can watch on a DVD player or PC whenever they like. Combined with unbeatable support for gaming and music, Windows Vista Home Premium delivers a complete home entertainment experience.If you want a PC that can keep up with you while you're on the go, then you'll appreciate how Windows Vista Home Premium helps you get the most from your mobile PC. It provides simplified power management, easier wireless networking, and streamlined ways to sync with the devices that keep you connected. Because it's incredibly flexible, you can even draw and write by hand on a Tablet PC, and enjoy all of your entertainment through Windows Media Center when you're on the road, in a coffee shop, or relaxing on the couch. Mobile computing has never been like this before.Finally, Windows Vista Home Premium makes it easier than ever to set up and maintain your new PC. There are new features that make it easier to transfer all of your data and settings from your old PC to your new one and technology that helps keep your system running quickly and reliably over time.Whether you're balancing your checkbook, studying for school on your mobile PC, watching a downloaded or recorded movie at home, or sharing your favorite photos with friends on a custom DVD, the experience is much better on a PC running Windows Vista Home Premium.

Customer Reviews

Not terrible
Well The Vista (start) menu is good once organised (takes about a week), I had to put it back to old version to organise it. The search tool works better than on a MAC and on XP as it automaticly selects the closest match to what you type in.
It also has the (clear) desktop as an option when switching between windows which is good.
I have to say 3D flip looks cool, wish it was on a Mac.

Not much else improved. I'moving back to my old desktop with my old friend XP so I can hopefully sell it and escape Bill Gate's worsening software and get a Macbook.

Not sure, getting worried!
Bought a brand new top spec Dell. Had a dell for 7 years with XP, not one problem. Had this for about 2 months and gradually there seems to one problem after another.

DO NOT BUY THIS TURGID ROT!!!!
I own a high end PC and have recently purchased a retail license copy of Vista Home Premium.

It is the worst, most unreliable piece of junk I have ever purchased. Quite simply put; it is NOT fit for purpose. If it was a car, a white good or anything similar I would have both taken it back, demnded a refund and wrote to tell anyone that would listen what a untterly sanity depriving exercise owning it is!

It has crashed on every start up bar two, constantly fails to run previously installed and perfectly working games properly - DESPITE updating all the drivers to the newest and most modern drivers available both from Microsoft and the manufacturers of the games/programmes themselves.

Since when do you release a half-baked and under-developed OS? Or is that question too common for anything that Microsoft do?

People - I am seriously considering buying a MAC after this. It is dreadful... it may look nice on the adverts - but that is where it stops. Please heed my warning - DON'T DO IT