Control Panel
· Home
· About
· Feedback
· Message Board
· Related Links
· Shop Online
-ADVERTISEMENT-
|
Shopping Cart Product Details
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate UPGRADE [DVD]
From Microsoft
List Price: $259.95
Price: $249.99 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com
9 new or used available from $239.00
Average customer review:
Product Description
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate - Upgrade Windows Vista Home Basic is the operating system for homes with basic computing needs. It is easy to set up, it helps you use your PC more securely and reliably, and like all of the editions of Windows Vista, it is compatible with the widest range of software, devices, and services that you use and trust. If you simply want to use your PC for tasks such as surfing the Internet, corresponding with friends and family using e-mail, or performing basic document creation and editing tasks, then Windows Vista Home Basic will deliver a safer, more reliable, and more productive computing environment. Windows Media Center in Windows Vista Enjoy all your favorite digital entertainment—including live and recorded TV, movies, music, and pictures—in one place with the easy-to-use Windows Media Center menu system and remote control. Windows Media Center in Windows Vista includes enhancements for expanded support of digital and high-definition cable TV, an improved menu system, and the ability to create a consumer-electronics-quality living-room experience, as well as new options for multi-room access to your entertainment through Media Center Extenders, including Xbox 360. Breakthrough Security Windows Vista is engineered to be the most secure version of Windows yet. The new features in Windows Vista help to give you the control and confidence you need to get the most out of your PC. Windows Vista contains a number of new securi
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #4 in Software
Brand: Microsoft
Model: 66R-00003
Released on: 2007-01-30
Platforms: Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Home Premium
Format: CD
Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
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 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)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
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, 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
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, 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
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. 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
Vista Ultimate delivers all of the entertainment features available in Vista Home Premium, and includes everything you need to enjoy the latest in digital photography, music, movies, analog TV, or even HDTV. 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
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.
From the Manufacturer
Get EVERYTHING that Windows has to offer. Windows Vista Ultimate is the most complete version of Windows Vista. It includes all the features available in Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows Vista Enterprise. In this version, you get the best of advanced innovation for business usage scenarios, advanced productivity for mobility-focused usage, as well as the top of the line digital entertainment features that you can enjoy at home. You will love how Windows Vista Ultimate transforms your PC to be simply amazing for your home, on the go, or at the office.
Note: This is a Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade DVD-Rom.
Keep Your PC and Your Family Safer Online
Help keep the entire family safe online with Parental controls. Windows Vista also helps you protect your PC from the impact of viruses and spyware by alerting you when potentially dangerous software is trying to run on your computer. Windows Vista Ultimate uses Windows Defender to help protect your PC by regularly scanning your computer and offering to remove any spyware or other unwanted software that it finds.
All the Right Tools You Need to Work More Effectively
Now, Windows Vista Ultimate makes working from home or remotely more efficient because it includes all the advanced networking, security, and productivity features included in Windows Vista Business. It keeps your data more secure even on shared computers by encrypting the files of each user, provides flexible, integrated faxing and scanning capabilities that make it easier to send and receive faxes, scan documents and images, and share those resources with other people. Windows Vista Ultimate also helps boost your PC performance and makes it more responsive by caching key system information on a USB flash drive or other flash memory form factor. (This speeds performance because the flash memory can often be accessed more quickly than the hard disk). It also helps improve PC responsiveness and helps make system performance more consistent by tracking which applications are used most often and preloading them into memory for quick access.
Everything You Need to Be Fun and Creative at Home (or Even on the Go).
Sit back and enjoy your favorite television shows on your own time with Windows Media Center. Watch, pause and record your favorite TV or premium high-definition (HD) cable television content, find the program you want using the built-in television guide, listen to your favorite music and share your photos with family and friends in a slideshow set to the soundtrack of your choice--all on your PC or a TV screen. With Extender devices like the Xbox 360 connected to your home network, you can even enjoy all the digital media you have on your PC virtually anywhere in your home. With Windows Vista Ultimate, retain high-definition (HD) quality as you capture, edit, and publish movies from your HD camcorder and create professional-looking DVDs complete with transitions and chapters that you can enjoy in your home DVD player.
Features in Windows Vista Ultimate
The greatest Windows Vista experience available.
Windows Aero--features stunning visual effects, including helpful animations, transparent glass menu bars, and live thumbnail previews of open programs.
Windows Flip 3D--enables you to dynamically flip through your open programs in a three-dimensional, stacked view.
Instant Search--Find anything on your PC and on the internet with search technologies integrated throughout Windows Vista.
Windows Ultimate Extras--get new and exclusive software and services available only for Vista Ultimate customers.
Use your PC in multiple languages--can run in a different language for each user.
Safer
Windows Defender--helps safeguard your PC against spyware and security threats.
Dynamic security protection--helps you browse the web more securely.
Windows Backup and Restore Center--helps schedule automated backups of your important files and settings.
Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption--helps to better protect your data against loss or theft if your mobile PC is ever lost or stolen.
Anti-phishing technology--helps protect you from fraudulent websites that attempt to steal your personal information.
Internet Explorer protected mode--helps prevent unwanted malicious software downloads.
Parental Controls--manage the rules for your children's computer use including web access and games.
Entertaining
Windows Media Center--Watch, pause and rewind live TV or enjoy your entire digital entertainment library on your PC or television.
Windows DVD Maker--burn your photo slide shows and home movies to DVD.
Extend Windows Media Center--enjoy your digital entertainment on TVs throughout your home with an Xbox 360 or other media extender.
Games for Windows--are available on your PC or online for every age and ability
DirectX 10 --enables Windows Vista to run the latest, most graphically advanced PC games in the market.
Windows Games Explorer--helps you install, manage, and enjoy all of your games in one easy-to-access location.
Three new premium games--includes Mahjong Titans, Chess Titans, and InkBall,
Windows Movie Maker--helps you capture, edit, and publish your digital home movies in standard or high-definition format.
Windows Media Player 11--new features are designed to help you manage your library of digital music, photos, and video and synch with a variety of portable players.
Mobile
Fast Sleep and Resume--Pause and resume your computer session in just seconds while conserving your battery life in sleep mode.
Network and Sharing Center--helps you more easily and securely connect to wireless networks.
Windows Mobility Center--saves time by giving you quick access to key mobile system settings.
Remote Desktop--connect more easily with remote PCs.
Windows Fax and Scan--helps you send, organize and share faxes and scans.
Domain Join--it's easier than ever to confidently connect with company or school networks.
Windows Meeting Space--helps you wirelessly connect your mobile PC to a friend's PC for sharing files--even when you're not connected to the Internet.
Sync Center--helps keep your portable devices synchronized with your PC.
The best version of Windows for notebook PCs with enhanced Tablet Technology.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Customer Reviews
Smooth Upgrade Install--Excellent Performance
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.
The fancy pants version
Microsoft needs money from time to time. Therefore, Windows Vista. Need happens. I don't own vista, so it's entirely unfair to review vista from a user's standpoint.
However, from an onlooker's standpoint this is the artsy fartsy version. Silly translucent windows; a bunch of graphical interfaces, and presumably its just a hell of a lot easier for the new guy with the computer eye. The tech geek in me says "buy it for the hidden treasures it beholds", but the practical side of me says "hell no."
If you need any version of windows, always go with the new. If you are concerned with upgrading check out the (1-100) reasons to upgrade on Microsoft's site before you buy. It will either be a revelation or five minutes of unadultered laughs. (Let's just say 1-20 is highly uncompelling, and suggests you may not have ever used XP before.)
Makes DOS look good
Many compatibility issues, drivers that aren't available, security so extreme it makes using many programs a chore to nearly impossible, and there did not seem anyway to disable this crap. Much slower response than XP. Wireless LAN products were much harder to setup than on XP. Put it on two computers, one was an upgrade and one was a clean install. The upgrade went fairly smoothly, but still several issues. The clean install took days to work out the compatibility issues and some were not solvable. Finally just put the old disk back in with XP on the computer which I did the clean install on. Maybe in 6 months or so I will try it again and see if Microsoft has the bugs worked out and the drivers are ready. This thing was just released too early
MJH Mobile Media | Shopping Cart
Join Associates, the Amazon.com affiliate program
Search
Select Category Cell Phones & Service Music Musical Instruments Software Toys & Games Magazine Subscriptions Books Computer & Video Games Computers DVD Electronics
Go to Amazon.com
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Browse by Category
Featured Products
Cell Phones & Service
Music
Musical Instruments
Software
Toys & Games
Magazine Subscriptions
Books
Computer & Video Games
Computers
DVD
Electronics
Listmania!
Microsoft Windows Vista
Wants & Needs: Kids & Adults
Braintrove.com - Hot New Products
Similar Items
Windows Vista Secrets
by Brian Livingston
$26.39
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Pre...
$153.99
Windows Vista(TM) Inside Out
by Ed Bott
$34.49
Accessories
Microsoft Office Professional 20...
$284.99
Windows Vista(TM) Inside Out
by Ed Bott
$34.49
Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 U...
$475.99
|