Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate FULL VERSION DVD

Windows Vista Ultimate combines the best of work and play, into a single easy-to-use operating system. It's easier than ever to find, manage, and share information — and it's safer than ever to connect, enjoy personal media and sync up personal devices. Fully designed for life on the go, you'll have all the features of Windows Vista Business and Windows Vista Home Premium in one package. Download cutting edge software and services exclusively through Windows Ultimate Extras, and enjoy entertainment on TVs throughout your home with Xbox 360 and other devices. It's the best way to enjoy work and play, with its easy connection to home and school networks. Accomplishing more each day has never been easier. Use your Windows Media Center to enjoy your favorite photos, music, TV, and movies on your PC and share them throughout the home of compatible device — including your Xbox 360. Enhanced backup and restore — Special safeguards help protect against hardware failure, user error and other causes of lost data Get a better tablet PC experience with enhanced handwriting recognition and precise pen navigation Connect to a company network or access your PC remotely from home Get up and running with existing data and applications — fast and easy PC migration, even without dedicated IT support Supports Windows ReadyDrive technology for improved battery performance

User Ratings and Reviews

1 Star Bill need a recall on this one. Wish I could go back to XP
Aside from some pleasant pictures, this is a BAD improvement over something that worked well. Worse yet is to get the Bundle with the new Word and Excel, which are terrible. Fortunately, I have another computer with the older versions on it. So, if I have a sophisticated Word document, I have some recourse.

1 Star Terrible operating system
I've been testing Windows Vista in my "lab" for a few weeks now. Some of the problems I have encountered:

1. The addition of a Linksys wireless network adapter card caused 3 different Vista installations on 3 different platforms to blue screen.

2. If the Windows Update via the Internet is interrupted, the system becomes corrupt (happened twice), requiring a total rebuild. This is BAD!

3. After a successful Windows Update, Vista required me to register and validate the software a second time.

4. System performance when running various applications (including Office) decreased by more than 60% due to memory management issues.

5. A Toshiba thumb drive simply wouldn't work under Vista–how this can be is beyond me.

6. In order to play various games, such as World of Warcraft, you need to operate under an account with Administrative privileges–this is an obvious security risk.

7. Upon losing the network connection, the user has to manually restart the connection–Vista will not repair the network connection. This is something I have never seen before. Even Windows 3.11 knew how to repair a broken network connection.

8. A great deal of software (including various Adobe applications) do not work under Vista. Same problem with games. Neverwinter Nights 2 will not work under Vista depending on your hardware configuration. From what I have read and tested, I would estimate that 75% of existing software will not work under Vista, or will experience problems.

I could go on and on, but needless to say, Vista is an unmitigated disaster for Microsoft and the public. Their CIO was recently fired for reasons "unknown," but one has to speculate that it had something to do with the failure of Microsoft's new flagship OS.

Save your money. Stick with XP or buy a Mac.

1 Star Not where it should be
If you look at the history of Vista (aka "Longhorn"), it is no where near where it should be. Microsoft went over deadlines on multiple occasions and the features that were to be so definitive are missing. And the new features are buggy at best.

Do yourself a favor and leave Windows. It's far beyond where it should be and this garbage is overpriced. I mean, c'mon. Over $300 for an operating system with subpar features, and a horrible interface? No thanks.

I'm just happy my college partnered with Microsoft so I didn't have to actually pay for it (well, I did but through student fees).

4 Stars hmmmm.
I wonder why so many people hate it. I have never had a problem that was unique to Vista that I did not have with XP. Moving and copying files seem easier it feels slicker and those annoying security windows can be turned off. I guess it's just cool to hate Microsoft. I just upgraded to the 64 bit Ultimate version and so far so good.

1 Star The best thing about Vista is it makes you want to buy a Mac.
The best thing about using Vista is it makes you want to run out and buy a make. Vista tried turning a windows machine into a mac but it did it very badly. Os x is the best OS out there and now the new intel macs can even run XP. So you really cant lose. Everyone should just switch to mac and if they need to use windows just boot up Xp on your macs. Its that simple.

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