Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate UPGRADE Limited Numbered Signature Edition [DVD]

Comments

1. Brian Beach says:

   June 16, 2010 at 1:58 am

   My Windows Vista experience started when I recieved RC2 a few months ago. I can honestly say that the features included with RC2 are excellent, but the RTM features greatly outweigh those of RC2.

   The upgrade process is extremely stable, offering minimal input from the user. Personally, I approve of the new boot envoronment (a small DOS-like operating system runs prior to booting to Vista), which is also present both in the upgrade process.

   I immediately proceeded to finding the wonderful new features of the operating system. Windows Media Center is much better, offering features such as online content & sports feeds! However, the best feature would be ‘Windows Ultimate Extras’, where you can get the new ‘Windows DreamScene’. Windows DreamScene, also known as ‘Motion Desktop’, basically allows users running Windows Vista Ultimate to have an animated desktop background!

   Overall, Windows Vista is a great operating system, and as a tech, I am putting my approval for Windows Vista.
   Rating: 5 / 5
2. E. Cox says:

   June 16, 2010 at 3:26 am

   I work as a network consultant, it was only a few years ago I began to like XP Pro more than 2000. I was skeptical about Vista however after only a few small issues with some with third party software such as Deamon tools, I have to say I really like it. Its clean and smooth, installed Office 2007 set up a VPN set the exchange server settings for work and had all Outlook, much easier then XP Pro 2003 office I had. Is it worth all the money, well that depends on you, but I am much happier than I thought I would be.
   Rating: 5 / 5
3. Aaron Parker says:

   June 16, 2010 at 6:24 am

   At first I was only marginally impressed; at first glance, Vista looks like mainly aesthetic upgrades. But then I started really DOING stuff. Moving files around, ripping DVDs (ones that I own, I promise), playing with Media Center… this is where Vista shines. Overall performance is just better, especially with hard drive-intensive tasks. Thumbnails are drawn faster, files are copied faster, multi-tasking is faster, you name it. Plenty of other tasks are made easier, too. While Apple is fooling around making OSX shinier and adding idiot features (Time Machine???), Vista is making your computer work better. Anyway, it’s too much to get in to here, but I would definitely say Vista is worth the purchase. Oh, and if you have an Xbox 360, you’ll definitely want one of the Vista versions with Media Center. It’s awesome.

   (Psst, little tip: rename .vob files to .mpg and your DVD rips will play through Media Center and Media Player. Very handy if you make lots of, uh, backups…)
   Rating: 5 / 5
4. Michael J. Moffitt says:

   June 16, 2010 at 7:42 am

   I thought this would be cool to have, but when it didn’t ship the day Vista was released, and I could get an unsigned version for $100 less elsewhere, I figured – what the heck, Bill G. doesn’t need any more of my money and cancelled the order.
   Rating: 1 / 5
5. G. Edwards says:

   June 16, 2010 at 7:56 am

   Having bought and installed every version of Windows this installation and upgrade (from Windows Home XP) was the smoothest. Microsoft’s Beta testing appears to have been very successful. By the way, I am just an average home computer user.

   Vista first inventories the software and hardware and indexes whatever files are needed for the transfer. Then it installs, which took about an hour in my case on a Celeron D CPU at 2.13 Megahertz and a little over 1G of memory, with the standard Dell-Intel graphics chips (not exactly a high-end computer).

   The look and feel and the interfaces and integration of Vista with other software is awesome. The software has killer diagnostic tools that are a cut above the usual third party software algorithms–for example, Vista remembers what has been tried and tells you so if you try to repeat a recommended “fix”. I liked, and installed two “gadgets” in the left sidebar–a floating office-style clock and a calendar.

   All the software on my machine functioned after the install and reboot, even software Vista identified as possibly not working–in my case, the Intellipoint mouse software. It did work just fine.

   The install did kill my broadband internet connection for a brief time; and after going ’round and ’round with the idiots at Adelphia/Comcast customer service–who stated that company modems did not work with Vista, and that they are not ready to offer help for their customer running Vista (do not believe them)–I fixed the connection after discovering (through a Vista diagnostic tool) that competing firewalls from Windows Security Center and Windows Live One Care were blocking inbound streams.

   In fact, Vista has a very nice feature in its Windows Security Center (that helped me fix my broadband connectivity) which tells you when you have competing security features enabled. In my case, it was two firewalls, one of which (Windows Lived One Care), was set to “restricted”. When I removed this firewall, and left the Security Center firewall enabled everything worked perfectly.

   By the way, despite what I read elsewhere, my iTunes runs smoothly. I also have lots of third party software (defraggers, spy removal software, password software, etc.) on my computer, and all of it, except the well-known buggy and unstable System Mechanic 7, operates without problems, and does so without having to download “patches”.

   I believe Microsoft did a great job on producing and testing Vista. I highly recommend it to anyone that wants to move beyond XP.
   
   Rating: 5 / 5