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Software Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate FULL VERSION [DVD] [OLD VERSION]

Domain Name Com's - Software : Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate FULL VERSION [DVD] [OLD VERSION]

- VISTA is terrible; stick with XP or go to OSX
I'm the IT administrator for a small business. I've installed every version of DOS and Windows Microsoft has put out since the early 80s. VISTA is the worst operating system I've ever seen. It is BUGGY, UNINTUITIVE, a RESOURCE HOG, and INTRUSIVE.

The browse boxes are so unintuitive, it is hard to figure out what Microsoft had in mind. They removed the "up one level" button in favor of a button that gives you a list of your most recently viewed folders. It takes lots more clicking around to get to the folder you want. This is total STUPIDITY.

The wireless networking is so buggy as to be nearly useless. You'll need to continuously reboot your machine to get your connection to work.

You'll come to hate the "whirli-gig" and you'll get lots of NOT RESPONDING messages when you try to launch or use applications. If I had a dollar for every time I got a NOT RESPONDING message, our Dell M1330 laptop would be free by now.

So often, I'll launch an application and the whirli-gig will come on the screen and then I wait . . . and wait . . . and wait . . . and wait. What is this Core Two Duo laptop doing??? VISTA has so many intrusive processes, it is frustrating to even launch an application (and my machine is a 2.4 GHZ Core 2 Duo with 4GB of RAM and a 7200 RPM drive). This machine would fly on XP.

If you enjoy spending lots of time trying to figure out why your machine won't do simple things reliably, if you want to spend lots of time talking to technical support people with thick accents who really can't help you because the operating system is basically JUNK, then by all means buy VISTA.

We are abandoning our VISTA experiment and going back to XP because it is reasonably reliable and because we need to get things done on the computer rather than always battling with its VISTA-isms. VISTA is a huge step backwards for Microsoft and I seriously doubt that Service Pack 1 will be enough to fix such major design flaws. Maybe when they come out with VISTA RELEASE 2 their poor sales will force them to listen to consumers.

Buy VISTA at your own risk. Don't say you weren't warned!!

Rating:

- Stick with XP for as long as possible
What a disappointment. I thought "It will be everything XP is, except prettier, and maybe contain a few more tools". NOPE

Pros
1) Vista Ultimate version has a very nice backup feature
2) Ability to select movie clips for desktop background
3) Poker
4) When renaming files, the file extension is not highlighted - so you can just type the new name & not retype the period & then extension. I work with a lot of files, so I'm happy about this!

Cons
1) Uses about 3 to 4 times as much RAM as XP SP2... ?!?
2) Requires decent graphics card (not a problem for me)
3) The ability to search for folders and files is absolutely destroyed. Its pretty much worthless now.
4) The list of usual growing pains when updating your OS - many programs don't support it. Weird bugs are all over.

I used Vista in its first 3-4 months. I switched back to XP Pro and will be staying with it until I simply must use Vista.

Rating:

- When the dust settles, disappointment is the topmost sediment
I wish that Windows Vista worked well enough to justify the initial enthusiasm I felt, but it doesn't.
This review is mostly about some of the many little things that make it so I can't love Vista, even though I was perfectly ready to when I bought it.

I was a RC2 beta tester, and I provided quite a bit of written feedback to MS during the build up to the release date. The full version Redmond released as a product works considerably better for me than the RC2 did.
I have been an experienced user of Windows since Windows 95 (I had 3.1 briefly after DOS). I am usually pretty willing to learn my way around any stumbling blocks I've encountered with Microsoft, because they were the dominant provider in the P.C. world. I've excused some of Microsoft's faults by pointing out that they have to deal with all the hardware made in the world, while Apple only deals with their own. And so on.
My experience with Vista points to several things:
* An ambitious product with new features that would be fantastic if they worked
* Corporate greed expressed in unwillingness to deal with the public's feedback on their products at any level coupled with a strong tendency to obscure information about problems, and make technical help unavailable -except for a fee - even to paying customers.
* Lots and lots of little problems, that eventually overwhelm the user, and make them regret their participation in Microsoft's vision of `progress'.
First off: New features - if everything in Vista worked the way you'd want it too, what most people would be writing about would be `Dreamscene'; it's cool. I personally like the file and folder management in Vista better than XP, but they missed on some points, and took certain controls away that were useful in XP. There are essential things in Vista that seem like they should be configurable, but aren't -1 example - remembering where to copy or move files. Windows XP would let you move a file, then unless you changed it, each file you moved would want to go there, which speeds things up enourmously if you are doing a project culling files. Now you can't. Example 2 - Folder settings - Windows XP would remember the folder settings for a small number of folders, but there were no controls for this. Windows Vista is no improvement, but it seems that features have been dropped. I'd like to see it so you can specify how you want all your music folders to look and act, and Vista will remember. I'd also like to see compatibility - Customized folders from WinXP can get screwed up in Vista - icons don't exist in Vista that XP used, and so on.
Certain Buttons seem connected to nothing. I can't seem to do anything to get my computer to go to screen saver, or sleep the monitors after a certain interval. Sure I can turn off my monitors if I want to leave the computer on, but is that the point? The button to sleep my monitors is there, it just doesn't do anything when I push it. That seems like an issue.

Other reviewers have mentioned UAC - I ignore it, but I don't like it, nor do I maintain the illusion that it protects me from much. I'm just glad that it no longer takes 30-45 seconds to delete an empty folder like it did in the RC2. Some UAC functions seem about as necessary as airport security asking you for your lip gloss, and small bottle of hair gel.

Other users have mentioned the slow typing - that seems like a very fundamental problem to me. I use a 2.7 Ghz processor with dual cores, and 2 GB of RAM; in short this is one of the fastest computers ever made. To see that I can type a whole line ahead of the cursor in a web-field, or in Word is just disturbing in a W.T.F. kind of way.

I love the Sidebar. Gadgets are cool, and people seem to have taken on writing all kinds of them. Unfortunately, nothing in Vista seems to know to sleep the sidebar, so it causes constant internet and hard disk activity, and I have to close the sidebar, because it drives me nuts to see my disc activity light always on.

Networking is one place where Microsoft looks totally disorganized. Here's why. They set out to make a home networking experience that would be the easiest and best thing anyone had ever seen. The user interface even got built that way. Then someone from the business side must have said that that wasn't secure, so they torqued everything down so tight that almost nothing works. As an example, I have two Vista Ultimate 64 machines, both on a completely secure wired Ethernet network. Both have been told to share music files, and specific drives and directories have been specifically shared with each other. I even created special user accounts on each machine for the other, and gave each special account a password and special permissions over the folders I wanted to share, but Vista still won't share these folders. This is not a hard problem to find reference to on the internet either - other people are scratching their heads over this one: why is security so tight that nothing can be set up to work?

Okay, that's my laundry list.

Overall, I'm afraid that Microsoft has been rewarded by the market too often for products that were
`not quite up to snuff'. I suspect that the industry will do as it always does, and gloss over the problems with this OS, looking ahead instead to `what's next'. What's next will undoubtedly be another opportunity to give Microsoft more money, in hopes of being satisfied. Will we ever be satisfied with the basics from this company? Who can say. One thing we can say for sure, is in the future, we will always pay more instead of less.

Rating:

- Stay with XP, Ubuntu, etc.....
My computer had an electrical problem here in South America where I'm temporarily working and it was unusable.

I had to buy another laptop immediately and wound up with Home Basic in the spanish language. I thought I could easily change this to english. Not so easy!

I have to buy Ultimate at $399, $28 sales tax, $120 Colombia tax to get the backup disk, and $35 to mail it to me, making a grand total of about $572.00. the computer only cost $750. So I have to pay almost $600 more just to get the english language.

Hewlett Packard says tough luck. If I had bought a Toshiba, they would have changed the Home Basic spanish to Home Basic english at no charge.

I see no need for Vista or Hewlett Packard.

Rating:

- Regular Guy's Review
I'm not a computer genius but I am fairly computer literate. I don't have brand loyalties (I feel Apple's usually overhyped) and I use my computer for a variety of stuff: email, documents, media, Photoshop Elements Etc. So that's where I'm coming from.

And I have to say I've generally been disappointed by this product. I haven't noticed much that's substantially different. One thing that strikes me is that, in an age where users inceasingly determine content (see MySpace, Youtube, etc etc), Microsoft still has this very top-down model. If a Microsoft program gets stuck, they usually won't give you the tools to shut it down. Internet explorer crashes fairly often and you just can't yank the plug, even if you go into Task Manager.

In addition, it has compatibility issues with a lot of software: my work connection is much slower, as is Adobe Photoshop Elements. Presumably they'll fix this BUT THEY HAD FIVE YEARS AND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS!!!

Like MS itself, they're doesn't seem to be a clear vision here: just a lot of features piled on one another with no sense of how they cohere or why they were chosen. Also I'm not sure if they're doing anything original. David Pogue had a review on the New York Times where he showed the striking similaries (ie, ripoffs) of Vista to Mac. Big stuff too. Check out that video. I know their new version of Explorer ripoffs Firefox *big time* and is still inferior. These guys are a watching advertisement for trust-busting: these are the crappy products when one company so strangles the marketplace it competes by buying competitors instead of innovating. That's bad for the whole world. I'm too lazy to learn Mac's software but I think I will downgrade back to XP. Too much hassle on Vista, at least for now.

For all my complaining, however, I will say this it does crash less. My old laptop crashed at least once a day and Vista doesn't crash much more than twice a week. I guess that's the best we can hope for from a company that's too big for its own good.

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