Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium UPGRADE [DVD] [OLD VERSION]
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Software Reviews of Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium UPGRADE [DVD] [OLD VERSION]
Customer Review: surprisingly easy, but takes some getting used to
Summary: 5 Stars
I installed this on my kids' computer which previously had Windows 2000 Professional. The installation process was easy, and customizing settings and the desktop were easy as well. Still having issues trying to get the settings right for parental control. Trying to block certain sites for my teenagers, but then they can't get on the sites they want which are ok - I have to go manually type in a password for each site. Over time this will be less of an issue, as each request and permission is logged and will be remembered the next time they visit that site. Better to block too much than not enough I guess. Lots of great features - I love the gadgets on the desktop including clock, calendar & more. Start menu is different & takes some getting used to, and if you're used to navigating by exploring folders on your own rather than letting the computer think for you then this will take some getting used to. Customer Review: it's a downgrade
Summary: 1 Stars
vista is a great example of bloatware, my laptop came with vista and it was really slow for a 2Ghz cpu with 2GB of ram.
The interface reduced my productivity.
I got really annoyed when it kept asking me to enter the admin password for anything i wanted to do.
The battery was supposed to last 1 hour but lasted less than that.
I tried making a copy of a dvd and it wouldnt let me.
Some software of the software i use was not compatible with it.
It totaly sucks. I had to upgrade back to windows xp with a dual boot to ubuntu which has nicer desktop graphics than vista.
Customer Review: Wait! On second thought.
Summary: 4 Stars
When I first got this computer, Vista included, I liked Vista and gave it four stars. But now I wouldn't give it one. It's as buggy as these reviews are saying. The "security" features constantly interfere with programs. And it's not even consistent. One day Vista will let me run a program and the next it won't.
You can't save games a lot of the time and if you turn off security, it actually gets worse not better. In other words, there are bugs in every corner.
I'm surprised at how far Windows plummeted from one version to the next. Would somebody please give us an alternative. (That's not tied to a brand of computer.)
Customer Review: Absolutely worthless
Summary: 1 Stars
This is by far the worst product Microsoft has ever produced next to Xbox 360. Very buggy and completely unsafe product to use. Windows is the standard used by the majority of computer users today, and yet some how Microsoft expects consumers to pay for this. It is a miracle the software even works! But it ultimately does more harm than any virus created by a hacker. In the past, the company had trouble addressing various issues with Windows but at least made reasonable attempts at resolving the problems. The updates on the Windows website if applied to Vista may result in a total loss of data and files, and require the user to completely reload the Operating System. Now imagine yourself working on project that took many weeks of work and the operating system routinely updates one morning but the system cannot even load! Weeks of work would be flushed down the toilet due to the complete incompetence of some contracted programmer working at Microsoft.
The total lack of reliability in Microsoft products in the past 2 years is completely unexplainable. The Xbox 360 is yet another product created by this so called company that is expected to be the main video game system of the next generation, but its plagued with hardware problems and has so far become a money losing debacle. In the past leading firms that sold inferior products that have ultimately lost business and the public has switched to competitors. It may finally look like Microsoft's turn to ride off into the sunset has arrived.
Customer Review: Vista Train Wreck
Summary: 1 Stars
I recently purchased a very high end desktop that came installed with Vista Ultimate. Unbelieveable!
New hardware, new software - exactly what does work with this over priced mess?
If you buy this disaster, you better enjoy slow performnace and lots of blue-screens of death.
Microsoft should offer free "UPGRADES" to XP, or ME for that matter.
Why isn't there a zero or negative star rating?