| Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1 Upgrade | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $129.95
Buy New: $66.99
You Save: $62.96 (48%)
New (43) Used (9) from $61.55
Avg. Customer Rating:  89 reviews
Sales Rank: 77
Format: Dvd-rom
Platform: Windows Vista
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Home Premium - Upgrade
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.5
MPN: 66I-02388
Model: 66I-02388
UPC: 882224661324
EAN: 0882224661263
ASIN: B0013O54P8
Release Date: March 19, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Upgrade to Windows Vista Home Premuim. Is brand new, factory sealed. 100% guaranteed. Will ship USPS Priority mail
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| Customer Reviews:
 Be warned! This does NOT contain the 64bit version DVD! November 4, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I bought a retail upgrade copy of Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 - Installed using 64bit DVD - No problems.
I then bought a retail upgrade copy of Windows Vista Home Premium SP1. Problems ensued! There is no mention anywhere on the packaging that this doesn't contain a 64bit DVD, just the 32bit one. Technically you are purchasing the 64bit software, but in order to install it you have to pay $10 online to Microsoft for them to ship you the DVD. Plus in order to get it in a timely fashion (5 business days), you have to pay an additional $6 shipping.
The fact of the matter is if the retail package doesn't contain the 64bit version it should be clearly marked as such! With enthusiasts taking advantage of cheap deals on RAM (you can now get a 4GB kit for $40! - 32bit operating systems will only recognize 3GB give or take), there will be more and more people in the market for Vista that will run into this exact same issue as I did. The old analogy springs to mind, "it does exactly what it says on the tin", only in this case it does exactly what it says on the tin; after a lot of trouble shooting on Microsoft's website, and extra chunk of change, and 5 to 10 business days! Microsoft just needs to make it clear what they are selling and perhaps start shipping two SKU's - one for 32bit and one for 64bit.
 Upgrades are never as good October 31, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Generally speaking, to get the best performance from any operating system a clean install of a full version is recommended. The best choice is to choose a full version of the product and enjoy the benefits of not being left with artifacts and leftover's of your previous operating system which can lead to instability in certain cases. I would only buy this on a limited budget.
Don't believe the internet. October 31, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
A lot of people are very slow and impatient when it comes to vista. Whether its their insistence on thinking that the new aero interface will run on 3 year old comps with 1gb of memory, or that 10 year old programs will run on vista, people seem to cringe at the thought of vista. They will claim that microsoft is copying apple, or that they're aren't enough new features in vista to warrant a $112 price tag. The truth is, is that windows vista is the most stable, innovative and exciting Microsoft OS to date (windows 7 will be released in 2009-2010). Aero will run on any new pc, and its the most secure version of vista yet.
Don't believe what the mac fanboys tell you. Windows vista is worth it on every level.
 Like being sadistically tortured October 16, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Windows Vista takes everything that has ever been fun under Windows XP and attempts to make it impossible. You liked being able to use multimedia under XP? Forget that!
The software vendors (RIAA and MPAA) have been screaming & suing the last eight years because canny computer users are pirating their products. Vista is Microsoft's way of throwing them a bone. It imposes crippling DRM all over your machine, degrades the viewing experience of HD video, and rats out the contents of your hard drive to the Mother Ship so that the RIAA and MPAA can spy on you and start sending you lawsuits if there's anything on your hard drive that might have been pirated.
Boot-up time is much, much slower, and the bloatware of this OS causes your hard drive light to come on and stay lit. I'm running this turkey on the latest dual-core machine with 2 gigs of RAM and a fast video card, and it still chokes and sits there like a dead rat, as it spins the hard drive and thinks about maybe responding to a mouse click. And then it pops up the security windows and asks if you think that you should be doing what you just tried to do. No information as to whether or not you've just clicked on an attachment that might be installing a Trojan or Keylogger. Just an annoying window that pops up that means you have to click an extra time.
Oh yeah - and here's another fun feature. If you buy into the hype that Windows actually is trying to make it easy for you to work with the wonderful world of multimedia, that is a BIG FAT LIE. Vista is designed to make it frustrating and impossible for you to 1) capture video (the system resource hog means many dropped frames and bombed-out sessions), 2) edit video (the DRM settings are so arcane and hidden that to turn on the setting that allows you to display full HD video in your editing program takes 4 (four) days of work on the Windows forums to figure out, 3) encode and compress video and most of all 4) upload and share video.
If you have any dreams or designs on being a multimedia content producer, Windows Vista is not for you. You cannot use this OS to do what you need to do to earn a living. It will not allow you to create video content. It will degrade the signal if you do manage to create the content so that the video that you see on the screen, and the video that you turn in to your clients are radically different. Your clients will ask you what happened, and you will not have a good answer.
If you travel, and try to work with clients in other countries, as I have, Windows Vista will try prevent you from logging on to the internet. You will come to know the Network and Sharing Center. It will be your new home. You will struggle and scream over all the settings you will have to know about there. Nothing will work. You will thrash and re-start and re-boot for hours. Imagine the fun! Finally, you will find out that some obscure security setting is at fault, one that is not documented in any appreciable way. And then, the next time you turn on your computer, you will have to go through this whole process all over again.
 works great October 15, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
totally satisfied. received quickly. works great on my computer, it actually works better than window xp did.
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