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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
Features 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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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Vista is junk Comment: I tried Vista and I hated Vista. It has so many issues, is slow, and had many hardware conflicts. Stick with XP for now and then hope Windows 7 is much better. Customer Rating: Summary: Congratulations Microsoft, I now want a Mac... Comment: This is the most bloated OS I have ever used.. it was slow when I got it on my brand new laptop and with every update (which seem to come numerous times a week) it seems to get slower. If you have XP save your money. Customer Rating: Summary: A few improvements, many drawbacks Comment: Vista is essentially the operating system your grandma would love... anything you try to do, the screen goes black and a pop-up warns you of dire consequences. If you try to install a program or customize anything, it wants to stop you. If, on the other hand, you have no idea what you're doing but just want to upload pictures of the grandkids and send an email to your bingo group, it's easy as cake. Customer Rating: Summary: Don't buy this piece of garbage! Comment: I'm not going to write a lengthy review here because others who gave it lousy reviews have pretty much said it all. I bought a rather pricey multimedia laptop with Vista and absolutely hate it to the point that I don't use the laptop. I plan to load a different OS. What I do have to say is that I read an article just before finding Vista listed as today's deal that says Microsoft is dumping Vista and is about to release the beta of a new operating system to replace it, Windows 7, which will be available to download and tinker with very, very soon. It's suppose to take care of a good chunk of the complaints. We'll see. Personally, I think I'll load XP. Save your money. In fact, if someone gives it to you for free, run! Just say no! Customer Rating: Summary: Not really great or awful...but I will get a Mac next Comment: The Good: -It is relatively stable - I've had a couple issues with stability with regard to getting my laptop to respond after going to sleep, but that was early on (pre SP1) and I haven't had any real issues in this way for quite awhile. -Has a decent degree of support built-in. Usually it does bring up menus to help you along when a networking problem or something like that comes up. -Security better than previous Windows. While the prompting for changes that you request is annoying at times, it also makes it presumably harder to hijack the computer. The indifferent: -Graphics are better looking than most OS, but this is not really a huge plus in functionality; I use Vista the same general way I use XP. -The Sidebar gadgets went away after awhile and haven't come back...so-so features that seemed to slow down the computer. The Bad: -Updates... Lots of updates, and I swear it can take hours-days with multiple restarts before the updating is completed. -Speed... Or lack thereof. -Start-up... The worst of the speed issues occur at start-up. The Vista startup takes several minutes. -The hidden preferences... When Vista makes a preference easy to get to, it does it better than XP. The problem comes with the myriad of hard-to-get to preferences that can affect all kinds of different issues. By default it will set a huge chunk of hard-drive aside for backup purposes...so much that my hard-drive was quickly disappearing. To change this was not a simple process. This has happened more than a few times with Vista - something that should be easily done, isn't -Driver support, or lack thereof... Worse driver support than XP, leading to the usage of questionable drivers or subpar 'supported' drivers. -Backwards compatibility not all there... Does allow for "compatibility mode" in which it runs a program as if it is running an older version of Windows, which is good because several programs (mostly games) won't work until put in XP mode. While post SP1 Vista is an improvement, the slowness of startup and other issues have pushed me to Ubuntu and Mac...
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