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Windows Vista, Home Premium Edition with Service Pack 1, Upgrade Version (PC) | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft
Category: Software
List Price: £99.99
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Rating:  8 reviews
Format: Dvd-rom
Platform: Windows Vista
Media: DVD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 19.7 x 19.7
MPN: 66I-02388
Model: 66I-02388
UPC: 882224661324
EAN: 0882224661263
ASIN: B0013O54P8
Release Date: April 4, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: New sealed retail box. Fast delivery (usually next day)
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Product Description
Windows Vista Home Premium is the operating system for homes with advanced computer needs. It will help you use your laptop or desktop PC more effectively as well as enable you to enjoy new, exciting digital entertainment experiences-all with the benefit of added security and reliability. Whatever you choose to do with your home PC, Windows Vista Home Premium will deliver a more complete and satisfying computing experience. Main Features:New user interface - Windows Vista Home Premium has a new user interf...
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| Customer Reviews:
 'Upgrade'? - What 'Upgrade'! ('Clean Install May Be Required' - OH, YOU THINK?!) May 20, 2008
Sir Lancelot (Wales, UK)
19 out of 22 found this review helpful
If, like me, you followed all Microsoft's recommendations before selecting your required 'version' of Windows Vista, in my case this 'Home Premium Edition' - such as downloading and running their 'Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor' application; then - like me - you may subsequently be 'very upset' (to put it mildly) when the Vista Installation Program point-blank refuses to actually 'upgrade' your required system (in my case, Windows XP Pro SP3), and will only offer you a 'Clean Install' option, loosing all programmes, settings, and data etc. This is NOT an option!
So, after much slogging around the Internet and reading of numerous bulletin-board posts, it became clear that - amongst other things - you can't actually `upgrade' from Windows XP Pro, you can only `Clean Install'!!!
It would appear that Microsoft are subtly pushing people towards the `Ultimate' Edition - with which, it was `promised' you could actually `upgrade' from Windows XP Pro to Vista.
I actually tried this `recommendation' also - at considerable additional expense - and after battling with it for two days, during which time the Windows Vista Ultimate Editions' Installation Application forced me to de-active and / or `remove' certain installed functions, facilities and services (such as `FrontPage Extensions') BEFORE it would even proceed to examine the `options' for installations; it TOO `ultimately' failed (no pun intended) - it spent 2 hours `gathering information' about my system, proceeded to `copy files' it needed from the Internet (`updates') and from the DVD, and then promptly informed that it could not find all the files it needed to proceed, and `quit' the installation there and then!!!
I verified my PC Equipment was all functioning OK - the DVD drive was operating correctly and COULD read the DVD without any issues, and it had `exclusive' use of the Broadband Internet connection through the whole installation period - and yet it too could not actually perform this `upgrade'!
Don't get me wrong `dear reader'; I am NOT a `Microsoft Basher' in any way - quite the reverse in fact; which is why I was really looking forward to moving up to Vista now (with the release of SP1 etc); but this experience has left me a little `downbeat' by the whole thing!
Bottom line: I'd assume that there isn't such a thing as an `upgrade' to Vista. If you have a `blank' system and / or you are prepared to do a `Clean Install' (in which case BE WARNED - you MUST purchase the considerably more expensive `FULL' version of your required Vista `edition' NOT the `Upgrade', which will only run FROM an existing Operating System, such as Windows 2000 or XP) - then, and perhaps ONLY THEN will you achieve your desired objective!
Of cause, that WILL take you many hours of time and effort re-installing all your Software Applications, re-configuring Internet and Email accounts, desktop settings, Favourites etc.
OR you could just do what Microsoft clearly wants you to do: buy a `new' PC with `Vista' pre-installed!!!
As for me, I'm returning both of these `Upgrade' Editions back to Amazon. and will have to start the `process' all over again, with either a `new PC' or the `Full' Version of `Vista Ultimate' and a new Hard Disk Drive.
Either way, this is far, far more costly in both time and money than the original `upgrade' promised by these products - so BEWHERE, dear reader, or you too may end up as 'disappointed' by this as I am!
 Worth the wait for service pack 1 June 3, 2008
Allan Hildon (Suffolk, UK)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
After following the forums for most of the year and reading endless stories of doom and woe about upgrading to Vista I decided it was time to take the plunge and upgrade my humble Dell Inspiron 6000 now that the SP1 version has been released. I checked out the Dell website and downloaded all the drivers that the Dell upgrade advisor said I would need, and backed up all my files in preparation for a long night of nail biting and hair pulling (if you have ever done a fresh reinstall of XP you will know exactly what I mean!). I also installed 2 gig of RAM (oo-ah that cost peanuts). As all the forums state very clearly, the upgrade package is only an upgrade from a lower version of Vista, so I knew the installation would be a fresh install. So, I inserted the disk, answered the usual questions about proceeding, and waited around 30 minutes for the entire installation just agreeing with all the recommended options. What happened next was something of an anticlimax - Vista started and my machine was ready to use. Despite all the dire warnings from the upgrade advisor about all the hardware and applications that might not work everything except the sound card did, and that worked after the wizard searched the www for the correct driver and miraculously found it - that's a first! My verdict - full marks to Microsoft on a fab product that was absolute simplicity to install. Now my 2 year old laptop has a new lease on life.
NO GOOD! May 21, 2008
Mr. J. M. E. Bevan
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Microsoft Vista is just too clever by half, in fact, so clever that it has done away with basic requirements, eg the 'Install Programs' tab on Control Panel. Also, when I try to install programs from CD, Vista keeps asking me irritating questions such as 'do you trust this software' (or something like that). Best stick with XP - now that is a find system indeed!
Great product! May 11, 2008
J. Smith (Great Britain)
3 out of 15 found this review helpful
Best OS I have ever used and don't say, what about Apple OS X? Because I have used it and it sucks.
You can get right on with this, just set up your account and such and your on!
Windows Vista is beautful compared to XP, it is just amazing.
With Office 2007 you can't go wrong for a PC.
Poor attempt to catch up with Mac OS X June 17, 2008
T. Clarke (UK)
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
I could ramble on all day about the problems with Windows Vista. But I have no need as, thankfully, most other Amazon reviewers have made their thoughts known. Therefore, I'm just going to sum up why Windows Vista was a complete and utter downgrade for our family's PC where, apparently, XP was out-of-date (compared to Vista);
- The pointless 3-D Pop Up menu that apparently makes "switching between programs easier than ever" is a waste of RAM and anyones time. How can this be faster than just pulling you cursor down to the task-bar and clicking a program?
- Moving/Transferring/Copying files is a nightmare on your systems CPU, and takes about twice, maybe even 3 times longer than on XP.
- The "Gadgets" principle is merely a copy of Mac OS X's "Widgets" (They didn't even bother to think of a more imaginative name!) and is pointless; this computer was merely for surfing the web, handling photos, and for word processing at home. I have no interest in knowing what time it is across the world or any of the alike. Another waste of CPU and RAM.
- USB Drivers... don't get me started...
- The performance of Vista compared to the supposedly "inferior" XP is quite ironic, in that when you purchase a new OS, it should be faster. Not such the case - Vista takes over 5 minutes to 'settle down' (HDD activity calms down) and even then the CPU is still running hard and requires further time for the desktop to become fully functional, in that you can access the Internet without waiting a further 3 minutes for it to just load up! Shocking.
Summary? Quite easy really. Vista looks and possibly feels** like a Ferrari...
...With the right surroundings, a high performance Track (Hi Spec PC) it can do the job well. But for the average British road (A 400 quid PC), just how efficient is it?
**No, I don't own a Ferrari
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