Customer Reviews:
  Thought it would be good... May 16, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I just bought a new iMac and wanted to install the new Windows Vista on it. Not so tough, right?
The installation itself was long, but easy enough, no problems there. But then I actually tried using Vista.
But, first of all, I should mention that at the time of this writing this product is titled "Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1 Upgrade." To me this sounded like I was going to get Windows Vista Home Premium plus the upgrade to SP1. What it really means is you get the upgrade version of Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1, meaning you have to already have Windows 2000, XP, or Vista installed. The joke of the whole thing is that all four - or is it five, maybe six - editions of Vista are on the one disc. You actually have to tell the installer which one you bought so it installs the right one. I know that sounds ridiculous, but I swear to you that's how it went down.
Back to the quality of Vista itself. The installation was complete, so let's try this very pretty version of Windows out! Connecting to my wireless network was no problem. Connecting to my wireless mouse and keyboard was another thing. This took a lot of work. To figure out how to connect these guys I had to open the read me file, which was a pdf. Oh wait, Vista can't read pdfs right out of the box. So now I've got to download some fancy reader. Then I tried adding some music, forget it. I just ended up downloading iTunes which worked with no problems. If I want to chat, I've got to download a chat program. Ended up downloading firefox because IE7 is still just as broken as IE6.
Frustrated I switched back to OS X and started using that. Just like the commercial said, "it just works." When I plugged in my printer it recognized it right away, no problems. It recognized that there was no keyboard and mouse plugged in so it recognized my bluetooth ones right away. Automatically connected to my wireless network, and most importantly, read my pdfs with no guff.
Dear Windows,
I thought you had changed. Guess I was wrong.
-Joel
Don't do it, you'll be sorry. I know I am May 16, 2008
18 out of 24 found this review helpful
I used this to upgrade from Home Basic which came installed on my Dell laptop. It wouldn't install because it said I needed SP1. So I downloaded SP1 then did the upgrade (the whole process took about 12 hours). First problem - no speakers. On-line chat with Dell resolved that. Then I discovered my BitDefender now said it had expired, although it had 655 days left. To top it all off, most of the premium features didn't work (Aero, Sync Center). I was 3 hours on-line with Microsoft, with the tech connected to my computer. He didn't know what he was doing and I finally ended it. Dell tried to reinstall SP1, saying it looked like it didn't install correctly. But it didn't work, since it was already there. Then they tried to do a system restore, but the "Repair Computer" option wasn't there. I ended up having to redo the partitions and reinstall Vista from the disks that came with the laptop, making it less than "out of the box" - meaning I then had to reinstall the drivers. What I thought would be fun and make life a little easier, computer wise ended up sucking 3 days out of my life. Fortunately thanks to Dell (and the $$ I paid for a three year gold warranty) my computer will be fine. But I bought a Dell desktop with XP this morning :)
horrible, bug prone operating system May 16, 2008
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
For me, the measure of any operating system today is a) the frequency of bugs, b) ease of virus attacks, and c) when there is a bug, the time and ease with which it can be resolved. Vista is relatively untested on b). On a) and c), this is probably my worst experience ever with an operating system. The first problem I had was corruption of the Windows Installer. I spent 12 hours on the phone with Microsoft and was elevated through several levels of advanced tech support. After all of this, their response was "your Windows Installer has been corrupted by something in Microsoft Outlook." So , their final advice was to wipe out my hard disk, and reload everything. When I told them I no longer had my disks for Outlook (which I last installed in '04), they said I would have to buy a new version -- though the corruption was caused by 2 of their programs. I couldn't waste the time, so bought a new version of Outlook. Recently I had hardware problems with my new pc, so was sent a replacement by Dell. Have been reloading all my soft/hardware, and guess what -- major problems with Vista. Truly extraordinary. I feel Microsoft really should suffer for this horrific piece of software. Too bad they're such a huge monopoly, or they would either be out of business or on their death bed.
HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE! May 12, 2008
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I am still hating having to use VISTA On this PC !!!!!!! MY PDA can't sync even though its WM5, My printers don't work my camera doesn't work on it nothing works even after installing vista drivers my games don't work my computer crashed last night and I had to do a system restore which led me to write this review! ITS HORRIBLE. MICROSOFT Puts out third rate products! STEVE BALLMER, the CEO, has a masters in ECONOMICS AND MATHEMATICS. this guy knows how to make MONEY not make an operating system, compare that with a copmany like google where the CEO actually has a computer related masters so you can tell their stuff is awesome.
 Vista Home Premium May 10, 2008
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1 Upgrade
The Only Problem With Vista is That microsoft Overestimated General IQ of Users,,Anyone with average IQ Loves Vista !!!!
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