Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic FULL VERSION [DVD] [OLD VERSION]
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Software Reviews of Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic FULL VERSION [DVD] [OLD VERSION]
Customer Review: More Errors
Summary: 1 Stars
Windows Vista Third Party Hardware/Software Incompatibility
Anybody who is thinking about getting a new computer or has recently bought one will know that there seems to be only one option available: Windows Vista. I have never used a Mac before so I decided to stick with Windows when I was ready to buy a new computer and upgraded from my five year old Toshiba Satellite (Windows XP) to a fancy looking HP Pavilion Desktop with a 19'' wide screen LCD monitor. While the computer is Great and comes with a lot of great features such as 250GB local drive, small and stylish tower, very fast speed for multitasking, wireless capability, and great DVD writer; it also comes with Windows Vista Home Premium (I assume they call these different names just to make one look fancier than the other just like with XP and in the end everybody ended up with Service Pack II).
Even though I love the new HP Desktop (Slimline is the model by the way), why oh why Windows Vista? XP has corrected many of its glitches over the last several years and Service Pack II was becoming tolerable after years and years of Windows updating and error reporting (you have done this many times). Now XP CDs are on sales for less than a hundred bucks and Microsoft will start telling people to upgrade to Vista if there are problems.
Here are some practical issues that you might want to know before getting a new computer which will undoubtedly come with Windows Vista.
1)Wireless adapter recognizes my wireless signal, but no way on earth it will let me connect to the Internet. I tried repairing the network (fancily called "Network Diagnostic" on Vista) got the message saying my adapter has an unknown problem and the reason for my not being able to connect to the Internet is "unknown." OK, don't tell me to contact my network administrator anymore. All the help offered on Microsoft and HP websites told me to do that. Did they think they actually had to tell me to contact "the person who manages my network?" Of course the first thing I did was call him and make an appointment. The problem is that the HP computer is new (just been in the store for one day when I bought it), and the Vista is new. Nobody on the 1 800 helpline number knew the problem. My Internet guy had a hard time working around the Vista just like I did. He tried everything and my computer still won't connect to the wireless Internet. Obviously he is not someone inexperienced. He provides Internet service to an apartment town with more than 500 apartment units and they are all connected because they haven't switched from Windows XP to Vista. The reason for my switching is my Toshiba Satellite was getting too old and slow. You know the feeling. I just wanted a new computer and I could care less about Windows Vista. Now back to the wireless Internet problem, I am still not connected to it. Thanks to the alternative service that my Internet service provides, the wired local area net work in which Internet is provided through power line. Sounds weird but here we want to avoid having to have a phone line just to connect to the Internet. So I am using my power line Internet and sitting here and hoping my Internet guy will figure out the problem. The wireless one he offers is a lot faster to download videos but the power line is fast enough for surfing the net.
2)If you are a gadget junkie like me, you will find that Vista is not compatible with many of your not so old gadgets. For example, I have a Skype cordless phone made by Linksys and it worked fine with XP, now when I installed the driver on my new computer, I got a message saying it is not compatible with this Windows.
3)Although I followed everything suggested by Apple website to transfer my music to the new computer in order to also transfer how the library is organized (play list, play count, rating, etc), but it didn't work. Only the files and folders were copied to my new computer, not how they were organized in the iTunes library. I had to to redo the whole play lists and grouping music on the new computer. We are talking about over 3000 files!
4)Yahoo Messenger Music: If you use LAUNCHcast Radio by Yahoo, you will know what I am talking about. This feature allows you to add the radio as a plug-in on your Yahoo Messenger. From the small screen on the Messenger, you can access your radio station, or other stations by clicking on the little link "Stations." A drop menu shows up and a list of radio stations will appear, allowing users to choose what station they want to listen to. Well, drop down menu is there all right, but I cannot click on any of them. Only way I can change a station is by opening the Yahoo Jukebox Program itself and choose a station there, play the station I want to play there, and open the Yahoo Messenger, the station I have just played on Yahoo Jukebox will be listed on three of the recently played stations on my Yahoo Music LAUNCHcast plug-in on my Yahoo Messenger.
5)I tried to change my iTunes skin, but none of the plug-ins that allow skin change are compatible with Vista yet.
As usual, Microsoft rushed its newest operating system out of the factory door much too soon. It is filled with errors and shortcomings, and the unfortunate consumer once again will have to suffer for years while discovering what the arrogant Microsoft corporation failed to get right in the process of inflicting another faulty product on the general public.
I'm sure there are more problems and I will report them as they come my way.
Customer Review: Its new be patient
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been running Win2000 for more than five years and it was time for an OS update. At first I feared many of my beloved third party software would be obsolete, but to my surprise the support was there. Except for the fact many of my old games did not work on it. Otherwise I am very satisfied. It's new and it takes time to get used to it. I use it with finance, DVD editing, MP3, DSL, Photo and office software with few to no problems. You must run it on a recommended computer setup. The only drawback is you need at least 1 gig of memory or more. More is better. I think it is the best MS operating system so far. However, if you are useing XP there is no reason to change, the difference is not that big.
I didn't say much here other than I am a fan.
Customer Review: RIP-OFF
Summary: 2 Stars
Well...let's face it, screwed again. Look this blinking product costs $159.99 upwards, but guess what? THIS IS A DVD>>>Not a CD. So, if you have a CPU sans dvd drive you are USC-WOP...because you have to go to the Windows Vista website and purchase for an additional $9.99 the CD's. Gee....what a crock! Also, the website has a glitch/bug in it, and you can only order the 64-bit DVD...not the 32-bit CD. To make matters worse, there is No One to contact for help, and the full left side of the page for shipping & billing info.is hidden behind a blank frame. If I ever get this loaded I might write another review.....but at this point in time, why bother?Customer Review: Poor Product
Summary: 1 Stars
I paid $199 for this product , which is being sold at Best Buy,
Circut City for 50-75 dollars less.
The product has many flaws and leaves people like me with a problem.
I know you offered refund my money, however I would than be left with
no operating system, since the other is now deleted .
I am sure this is one of many complaints. It would appear to me
that MicroSoft should reimburse Amazon for this inferior product.
Customer Review: The fall of the Empire
Summary: 1 Stars
Each version of Microsoft Windows (except for ME and partially 2000), has been an improvement. In my honest opinion, Windows XP was their best Operating System, with very few issues.
However, Vista turns out to be far worse than their Millennium Edition.
My review for Vista may sound harsh and biased (maybe partially because I am a Linux user), but I can't help it. If I knew something about Vista that was good, I'd tell you, but I can't think of anything.
Vista's system itself is quite eye candy (brilliant with color), which may be the only thing nice about it. Basically everything is a failure.
I had no issues installing Vista, and it seem to load fine. But that's when problems began to rise.
I clicked on various things, having this message box pop up all the time, asking if I really want to open it or not. I had a PC game (quite modern by the way) that failed to work. I had a fairly good video card that wouldn't work on the computer.
I have heard from both my dads computer and my grandmas pc not work right using Vista.
It wouldn't even install on a 250 GB harddrive, which worked on XP, media center, and Mandriva Linux.
IE7 looks horrible, and I know that looks doesn't mean everything, but still, it was not organized like 99% of the browsers that are available.
Here's the big biased/praising part that some people get annoyed about, as to why I have to praise Mandriva Linux and talk bad about Windows.
Believe me, I'd talk good about Windows Vista, if there was something good about it, but I saw nothing.
Both Vista and Mandriva installed properly and booted up, the rest is different.
Mandriva detected ALL of my hardware, all working great. It has a great web browser and email client. It has tons of applications, DVD playback, media players, writing, word/word processor (openoffice), office, games, graphics, sound/audio/multimedia, etc. etc..
It can play my PC games, either using wine, cedega and/or a shell script file.
It is basically FREE, with all these applications I mentioned FREE! Yes, FREE! It is FAR likely to get any viruses, worms, trojans, malware, etc.
It can be installed even on OLDER hardware. It doesn't force you to upgrade constantly!
When you have something that gives you all this for free, why even bother with something that is so faulty and expensive? This is why I love Linux! There's a reason. My suggestion, forget Windows. Try Linux. And hey, if you don't want to sacrifice Windows, do a dual boot, meaning, you can have Windows and linux on the same harddrive. Maybe not Vista, because Vista is not so Linux friendly anymore in the dual boot, but it may work.
I also read this on the internet from a news site:
"Carver said it cost the district about $2,500 per school to migrate to Linux, compared with the estimated $100,000 it would have cost to upgrade their Windows infrastructure. In addition, buying more Microsoft Office licenses would have cost the district $100 per license, she said, whereas OpenOffice was free."
Cheaper, and OpenOffice free. Nice, isn't it? Try out Linux like Mandriva.