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| Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1 Upgrade | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $129.95
Buy New: $91.99
You Save: $37.96 (29%)
New (39) Used (5) from $79.98
Avg. Customer Rating:  105 reviews
Sales Rank: 99
Format: Dvd-rom
Platform: Windows Vista
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Home Premium - Upgrade
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 15.8 x 5.5 x 7.9
MPN: 66I-02388
Model: 66I-02388
UPC: 882224661324
EAN: 0882224661263
ASIN: B0013O54P8
Release Date: March 19, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Vista software January 6, 2009
I bought the windows vista home premium with SP1 upgrade from Amazon. I am very happy with it. Just remember to save everything you want before installing the software.
Parental controls are only good for very young children January 4, 2009
The Vista parental controls have a lot to be desired. Here are the parts that do work. You can set the time that the child can use the computer. The high level settings works. Accept for websites that most people agree are for children, the rest of the internet is blocked. And overriding a website to be allowed does work. The only problem is that you can't set it to allow a website for a single logon sesson. The only options are "always allow" or "always disallow". Adding new websites to the Allow list is controlled through an interface or an XML file.
For any child above the age of 9 (needs to start doing research on the computer for school), don't count on the medium setting. The rating star image on Amazon, and the ability to see this product's page is blocked, but I could very easily see a picture of Male private parts -- a picture that would that be allowed to be sold to a child under 18 if it was in a magazine. I would type in a word in simple.[...] and it would block the page, but when I typed in the same word in en.[...] or common[...] , the images were displayed. If a page on simple.[...] had "Sexual reproduction" the page was blocked, but when that category was removed and it only had "Male reproduction" and "Female reproduction" the page was not blocked. I did these tests both using both the medium setting (standard) and the custom with "Sex education" set to blocked.
Something is working the way it is supposed to be working, because I have been able to block sex education pages on simple.[...] , but still be able to see pages like elephant. The main problem is that there is no way to see the filters, and there is no way to add words to the filter. [...] websites can be imported and exported, but not the filter. Nor is there any interface to the filter list.
Overall, don't count on the Parental controls. Consider either buying a third part filtering program and subscribing to an online encyclopedia program.
 Worst OS ever. January 3, 2009
This software treats the user like they're in grade school and once even told me I didn't have permission to uninstall software that I'd installed on it, even though there's only one account on the computer - the admin account - and I was using it. It asks you 2-3 times if you're really sure you want to do something even as simple as throwing away a text file and hides all the features and areas that advanced computer users like to have access to. While Microsoft's done a good job of dumbing things down so that even the most inexperienced user can do things like alter their startup programs, it's gone too far. I cannot stress how irritating this software is, particularly when compared to its predecessors.
Don't waste your time with this OS. If you have it installed as a default OS, I'd strongly encourage you to reformat the drive with XP. Much better, less idiotic system by far.
 Be Careful, VERY Careful, on this `Upgrade' December 31, 2008
This `upgrade' will not install on a `clean' hard drive, nor will it `upgrade' XP Pro. There is a work around, but it involves duplicate installs and other technical `workarounds' so if you are not technically savvy, don't get this `upgrade'.
If you do want to consider this `upgrade' be aware that Windows Vista Home Premium does not include FAX capability and needs the Office 2007 suite along with Outlook 2007 (which does not support animated gif's, among other things) for most eMail.
I would not consider Windows Vista Home Premium an `upgrade' as it requires more system memory, is a step backward in features, and more cumbersome to use than XP.
Go MAC - Windows Vista is complete junk. December 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am an attorney practicing in Silicon Valley. From a user's perspective, Windows Vista is a step backward from Windows 98. Remember all those freezes and crashes we use to have in Windows 98, a problem that got much better with 2000 and XP? Well, they're back... Here are some of the problems Vista has caused on my machine and I'm not the only one who has seen these....
(1) Printers deinstall themselves after sleep mode.
(2) Send via email from MS office programs does not work and causes a system hang (need to kill open routines with task manager).
(3) IE freezes frequently (>40% of the time).
(4) Microsoft websites express puzzlement at these things (aka, complete lack of adequate testing before release).
(5) I have much faster hardware, with much greater processing capacity, but the system runs much slower (again, a Vista issue).
The worst thing about this is the insulting nature of Microsoft's attempt to force everyone onto Vista (aka, new revenues for a worthless, completely unreliable product). After about the past 30 years on MS operating systems, I've decided that my next purchases will be exclusively MAC based.
I cannot fathom a product being this far of a step backward, and the only conclusion I can reach is that the design teams and management driven by Vista are and were completely inept.
Save your time, do not purchase anything associated with MS Vista.
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