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Rating:  144 reviews
Sales Rank: 1732
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Business, Windows 2000, Windows Xp, Windows Vista Home Basic
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Upgrade
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 8 x 6 x 2
MPN: K62632
Model: 66R-00003
UPC: 882224172387
EAN: 0882224172387
ASIN: B000HCTYTO
Release Date: January 30, 2007
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| Features:
| • | Mobility-based operating system meets all your computing needs whether you're working from home, working on the road, or searching for entertainment options | | • | Combines all the features of a business-focused operating system, all the efficiency features of a mobility-focused operating system, and all of the digital entertainment features of a consumer-focused operating system | | • | Remotely connect to business networks; Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption provides improved levels of protection against theft for your important business data whether you are at home, on the road, or in the office | | • | Delivers all of the entertainment features available in Windows Vista Home Premium; includes everything you need to enjoy the latest in digital photography, music, movies, analog TV, or even HDTV | | • | Upgrade from your current edition of Microsoft Windows XP or Windows 2000 (including Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Media Center, Windows XP Tablet PC, Windows XP Professional x64, Windows 2000) |
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The most comprehensive edition of Windows Vista, Vista Ultimate Upgrade (DVD-ROM) is the first operating system that combines all of the advanced infrastructure features of a business-focused operating system, all of the management and efficiency features of a mobility-focused operating system, and all of the digital entertainment features of a consumer-focused operating system. For the person who wants one operating system that is great for working from home, working on the road, and for entertainment, Windows Vista Ultimate is a no-compromise operating system that lets you have it all. 
Windows Sidebar gives you quick access to gadgets like picture slide shows, Windows Media Player controls, or news headlines. You pick the gadgets you want to see in Windows Sidebar. View larger. | 
Use Flip 3D to navigate through open windows using the scroll wheel on your mouse. View larger. | 
Compare Windows Vista editions. | 
Use Instant Search to quickly find the information you need. View larger. | 
Windows Vista Aero provides spectacular visual effects such as glass-like interface elements that you can see through. | 
The redesigned Windows Media Center in Windows Vista lets you enjoy your media throughout your home, even on your Xbox 360. View larger. | Update Eligibility
You can upgrade from your current edition of Microsoft Windows XP or Windows 2000 (including Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Media Center, Windows XP Tablet PC, Windows XP Professional x64, Windows 2000) to a corresponding or better edition of Windows Vista by purchasing and installing this upgrade copy of Windows Vista. Depending on which edition of Windows you are running and the edition of Windows Vista you would like to install, you have two options for the installation process: You can upgrade in-place, which means you can install Windows Vista and retain your applications, files, and settings as they were in your previous edition of Windows or you can do a clean install. If you are currently using Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP Professional x64, you are eligible for an upgrade copy to a corresponding or better edition of Windows Vista, but a clean install is required. For versions of Windows earlier than Windows 2000, upgrade copies are not available. These earlier versions of Windows require you to install a full copy of Windows Vista. Easier, Faster Access to Information
Windows Vista Ultimate features Windows Aero, a new interface that delivers higher levels of efficiency for any business user. This easy-to-use interface makes it a snap to navigate through the operating system and from application to application. Most importantly, Windows Aero helps you juggle multiple tasks at once by providing a three-dimensional, real-time, animated view of all your open applications and documents. And for those businesses that do work in other countries, Windows Vista Ultimate supports all worldwide interface languages. Breakthrough Windows Vista Experience
Designed to help you feel confident in your ability to view, find, and organize information and to control your computing experience, all editions of Windows Vista introduce a breakthrough user experience. The visual sophistication of Windows Vista helps streamline your computing experience by refining common window elements so you can better focus on the content on the screen rather than on how to access it. The desktop experience is more informative, intuitive, and helpful. And new tools bring better clarity to the information on your computer, so you can see what your files contain without opening them, find applications and files instantly, navigate efficiently among open windows, and use wizards and dialog boxes more confidently. Work From Home
Windows Vista Ultimate includes all of the features that make it easy to remotely connect to business networks. This means that when you're working from home, you'll have advanced networking capabilities, such as the ability to join a domain, support for Group Policy, and access to features such as Remote Desktop. Windows Vista Ultimate also includes Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption that provides improved levels of protection against theft for your important business data whether you are at home, on the road, or in the office. More Entertainment Options
Windows Vista Ultimate delivers all of the entertainment features available in Windows Vista Home Premium, and includes everything you need to enjoy the latest in digital photography, music, movies, analog TV, or even HDTV. Windows Vista Ultimate also has helpful tools such as Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Movie Maker to ensure that you have everything you need to collect, manage, and edit your digital content. It also includes Windows Media Center for turning your PC into an all-in-one home entertainment center. Versatile Operation
Windows Vista Ultimate truly lives up to its name by delivering all of the features both business and home users want and need. It is the ideal solution for both a small-business owner who wants a single PC that he or she can use at the office, on the road, and at home, and for someone who wants a home PC that will be used primarily for entertainment purposes but that can also be used for business purposes such as connecting to a corporate network.
Product Description
- Marketing Information: When you want to have it all, choose Windows Vista Ultimate. Itandquot;s the most complete edition of Windows Vista - with the power, security, and mobility features that you need for work, and all of the entertainment features that you want for fun. Product Information - Software Sub Type: Client - Software Name: Windows Vista Ultimate - 32-bit - Upgrade - Features and Benefits: Rely on comprehensive safety features: - Take advantage of all Windows Vista safety features to help protect your computer, your information, and your family from accidents and malicious software Always be ready to work: - Take advantage of comprehensive productivity features including Instant Search, Complete PC Backup and Restore, network support including domain join, and Windows SuperFetch Enjoy complete entertainment: - Windows Vista Ultimate includes Windows Media Center so that you can enjoy your entire digital entertainment library on your PC or on your television Take it all with you, more safely: - Windows Mobility Center, BitLocker Drive Encryption, and Tablet and Touch Technology are just some of the features that make staying productive on the road easier, and safer, than ever - Language Support: English License Information - License Type: Product Upgrade - License Pricing: Standard - License Quantity: 1 User
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 Just too slow January 30, 2007
Kalpesh Vaghasiya (Boise, ID USA)
131 out of 200 found this review helpful
I have Intel Dual Core computer with 2GB DDR2 memory with 300GB Hard Disk Drive running Windows Vista.
* It is super slow and takes a LONG time (~40 seconds) to open any of Office-2007 application (It used to take close to 2 seconds on windows-xp/office-2003). Even with beefed up system my system comes to halt with this defective overloaded software (which does same as office-2003).
* Second bad part, Vista is loaded with LOT of Digital Right Management softwares, which does a lot of encryption/decryption even for the simplest task like playing audio. This causes system to slow down considerably. All this is forcefully fed to you on special request from Holywood studios... Now the question remains, why should I have to spend a heck lot more to get really poor performance at the request of movie studios. Answer is Microsoft wants your computer to be controlled by Hollywood studios even if you have paid for your software.
**** Bottom Line ****
Don't buy Windows Vista because computers not fast enough to support it and Vista security has not been tested yet... Wait and Watch... Don't buy it..
 Not Normally a Microsoft Basher February 10, 2007
T. McKinney (Portland, Oregon)
108 out of 135 found this review helpful
I've normally always liked Microsoft OS's. But that all changed with Vista. A little personal background: I'm an electrical engineer, did computer technical support prior to that, run a home network and build my own systems. In other words, I'm technically very astute. I have a gaming system with 2GB ram, SATA hard drives, PCI express (SLI) video card. My system more than passes the Vista compatibility test (other than removing McAfee). So I decide to order Vista. After receiving my copy, I proceed with the installation. Vista performs another compatibility test during installation and comes up with an error that the install can't proceed because the SATA/Raid host controllers are incompatible. I did everything I could think of, including contacting MS technical support (useless!). Keep in mind I've done the upgrade option given by the Vista CD and not the clean install (which wipes the system). I also have 2 backups of everything; one on a different internal drive and one on an external USB drive. I decide WTF and spring for a new motherboard with current drivers. I get XP running with my new board and all and then try the upgrade again and receive the same exact fracking error! I call support again and they say I have to choose the clean install option, which I didn't want to do because I don't want to reinstall all the software (including special engineering and math programs). Thanks for skewering me MS.
Since I have to flat line the system I decide to install a stripped Raid configuration with 2 Seagate drives. I still have the IDE drive in the system with my backups. The drive configuration is finished so I insert my Vista upgrade CD and try to begin installing (I figured it would work like XP before; since this is an upgrade CD it would ask me to insert my previous full version CD into the drive). I get the message that this copy of Vista can only be installed from within a running version of XP. So now I have to reinstall XP first (since installing the raid wiped the previous install of XP). I whip out my old 1.44 floppy and the disk for installing the sata/raid drivers for the new motherboard (this is required for installing XP on a clean system as it doesn't come with those drivers). I finally get to the point of selecting the drive to install XP on. It lists my IDE backup drive and my stripped 800GB raid drive. I create a partition of the full space on the raid. Now I carefully and methodically select the 800GB drive as the install drive and press enter to install. Next is a screen informing me the 800GB drive needs to first be formatted and I press whatever key it was to proceed. HORROR of HORRORS! The next screen informs me the XP install is formatting my backup IDE drive (the one with all my file backups). There isn't an option to cancel and even then knowing I'm too late, I shut the system down and physically disconnect the backup drive (which in retrospect I should have done anyway). I've just been skewered by MS again! But all is okay, I stopped the format and can probably recover the data with some special recovery software and I have my USB external backup drive. Finally after much struggling, shedding of blood and a multitude of expletive outbursts that would make a sailor blush, Vista is installed on my system. I plug in my external USB backup drive and go to My Computer, but no drive is listed. I check device manage and Computer Management and the drive is listed but I can't access it. I unplug the USB drive and plug it into my XP laptop and the drive and data are fine. I plug and drive back into Vista and nothing! I call MS support again. After some fooling around and telling the tech that all my Backup data is on this drive he informs me I just need to assign the drive a drive letter in computer management. I'm leery, but he's consulted with others and is certain this is the way to proceed. So okay I do it and low and behold the drive is now list in my computer. I click on it and get the message that the drive must be formatted. FRACK! Now I don't know if you were keeping count, but that is now 2 separate copies of external backups that have fallen victim of the Vista upgrade. How many of you out there have 2 separate Backups?! Not many I'm sure. After 2 hours I get off the phone and still can't access the drive in Vista or XP now. Resignedly I begin the search for data extraction and recovery software, which I find and buy. The software installs and runs fine on Vista, but when it extracts the data from the initial internal backup drive all the files are of zero bytes. Okay, not good! I remove the drive and put it into another computer with XP and install the software on that system. The software again runs fine and successfully recovers all my data. Woot! Saved! After a week and a half of fiddling with Vista, installing software and drivers, only the typical software (office, IE, media player and a few others) work on the system but there are many instabilities. None of my engineering software works, there are network access issues and a plethora of other issues. The most important thing is that I do not trust Vista with my data. Today (2007/02/10) as I write this, I have formatted my system and am happily reinstalling XP.
With all that said, the moral is DO NOT UPGRADE TO VISTA on a working XP system, especially if you have any non-standard software (engineering, databases, etc). If you are brave (or foolish enough to do so), be sure to backup all your data on multiple drives and disconnect them from the system while you do the upgrade. If you are lucky, one of the copies may survive the journey you've embarked upon.
 Smooth Upgrade Install--Excellent Performance February 3, 2007
G. Edwards (Fort Bragg, CA United States)
64 out of 114 found this review helpful
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 Live 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 did 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.
BE CAREFUL!! January 31, 2007
Johnnycakes (Conroe, TX)
41 out of 76 found this review helpful
Many of the security softwares DO NOT work with this product...like a previous poster said, you will have to delete your security softwares to even do the download of Vista. ZoneAlarm is not compatible in any way with this. Stick with Windows XP...at least the prices on that will be reasonable and we know it works....There is no need for this OS software, especially since it seems like it was rushed to get it on the market.
Vista crushed my computer February 4, 2007
R. Jenkins (Vienna, VA United States)
37 out of 52 found this review helpful
This is the first review I've ever written for Amazon. I felt compelled as I've never encountered a software program (much less an operating system) which so utterly failed. I have a high-end system, P4 processor with 2GB memory, spiffy video card, yada, yada. I've been building computers component-by-component since the early 80s (and the Old XT), so I'm no stranger to the ins and outs of operating systems. I purchased a SATA Raptor HD just for Vista. I first ran Microsoft's on-line compatibility program; the output from this was that my system met all requirements, and that installation would not be a problem. First, Vista refused to load on my SATA HD. I really don't know why because, after about 25 minutes of loading, and error message appeared on my screen for about a nanosecond. Failing at my effort for a clean install, I tried to upgrade my C: Windows XP (this is a relatively new EIDE drive). Here's where the fun really began. After an apparent full install, I again received an error message (but again only for a nanosecond) and the program uninstalled again. Windows XP appeared to work well. However, when I checked the C: drive with Partition Magic, I discover that Vista had apparently corrupted the drive itself. The label had changed, I was no longer able to adjust the size of the boot drive, or change the formatting. My only option was to delete it. Vista had COMPLETELY filled the drive (a clean 40GB drive -- Vista claims it only requires a 20GB drive). So I reformatted the C: drive, reinstalled XP and then AGAIN tried to install a clean Vista over a clean XP. Again, no joy. Finally, I again formatted the C: Drive (which is a new EIDE), reinstalled Windows XP, upgraded it to SP2, then tried upgrading that with Vista. This time I received a Blue Screen of Death almost at the very end of the Vista install. I pulled out every trick I knew to get Vista to work, without success. This dog's going right back in the box and back to Microsoft. I'll get back to where I was six hours later (thank goodness for back-ups), but this operating system, in my opinion, is clearly not ready for prime time. I hope your mileage varies.
Epilogue: Windows XP installed once again on a clean C: Drive without any problems. After about six hours everything was back to as it was before Vista was introduced into the system. Vista's back in the box and on it's way back to Amazon.
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