which windows vista package to get

[Geoff]

Im not sure if you're aware, but with Vista you can upgrade if you wish. So if you buy Home Premium, you can choose to upgrade to Ultimate for an additional fee, and it will download all the extras.

 

[robina_80]

yeah i would of thought you can upgrade to ultimate and il prob get the 64 bit ver

 

[StrangleHold]

Im not sure if you're aware, but with Vista you can upgrade if you wish. So if you buy Home Premium, you can choose to upgrade to Ultimate for an additional fee, and it will download all the extras.

I wonder how that works if you have to reinstall, if you download the upgrade it so you can burn it or it just installs like a update? It would be a bummer to have to redown load it on every reinstall!

 

[cuffless]

it would probably be a downloadable update

 

[robina_80]

dont think so i reckon prob hard copy eg dvd

 

[maroon1]

Windows Vista Home Basic is like the Home edition in XP
Home Premium is like media center in XP
Business edition is like windows XP professional

The Ultimate version has all the features that it is in home premium and business, so it is like having windows XP media center and professional at the same time

 

[robina_80]

yeah well ultimates the king daddy if you can afford it but i doubt most pep will get it its to much i say most pep will get home premium or business

 

[joeswm8]

just a couple quick questions of my own that will also help this thread:

home premium no doubt, but when you say its like media center edition, which i have never dealt with, it still has all the great computing features and not just entertainment, correct?

and does XP Home and Vista Home Premium come with the Microsoft Office products, like Word, Powerpoint, etc., or do you have to buy those too?

 

[robina_80]

i dont think vista will come with office somehow you have to purchase that seperatly

 

[joeswm8]

and one more question that helps the thread:

when you upgrade from XP home to Vista Home Premium, will all the data, files, and programs remain arranged as they were in XP Home but now in a new OS that runs different, or what will happen?

 

[kof2000]

office 2007 cost more than vista so of course it doesn't come with it.

 

[robina_80]

you will be able to transfer all your data from xp to vista if you do an upgrade

 

[Geoff]

you will be able to transfer all your data from xp to vista if you do an upgrade

You cant do an upgrade, you can only do a clean reinstall (at least with Vista Business).

 

[joeswm8]

^ what about home premium, and a clean reinstall kills everyhting on the HDD, right?

 

[Geoff]

^ what about home premium, and a clean reinstall kills everyhting on the HDD, right?

It would make all the data stored previously very hard to recover, basically it deletes everything before it installs.

 

[robina_80]

windows vista home premium has got windows media centre in it but i dont hook up my tv to my pc and watch tv i mean i do media like watching movies, tv series and listen to music but i dont require windows business aswell because i dont need all the business functions of it what one should i get i dont know

 

[darthluke12694]

Get Windows Vista Premium.

 

[Ramodkk]

What do you guys mean with "you can now pre-order" Windows Vista? and beta version...

Am I missing something?

 

[diduknowthat]

The thread's from over a year ago, I don't know why darthluke brought it up again.

 

[Ramodkk]

Appearantely, I AM missing something! *cough* date *cough*