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Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program (What's this?) Microsoft's latest operating system Vista, replaces Windows XP. Vista comes in 5 different versions: 2 for businesses (Business and Enterprise) and 3 for home use (Basic, Premium, and Ultimate). The Basic addition is a really stripped down version that is intended to help keep the price of new lower end PCs down. The Premium version has almost all of the same features of Ultimate except for 4 major applications. These are: Windows PC Backup - an image based backup program for restoring everything on your computer in the case of a hard disk failure. Windows Fax and Scanning - an app that integrates scanning and faxing (you need a scanner and a fax modem). Remote Desktop Connection -This lets someone else work remotely on your computer (or you work on theirs). RDC is used in businesses for Helpdesk techs to diagnose or fix software problems without running to the user's computer. Bitlocker Encryption - This encrypts the data on your hard drive so that if someone steals your computer or drive, they can't read the data. This can be a very desirable feature if you have a laptop with business data on it. In Healthcare and Finance, not encrypting data can end up costing a company a lot of money and bad publicity. If you don't need any of the above, I'd recommend you go with Premium and save some money. Vista has better graphics and more integration with new multimedia devices (such as iPods, MP3 players, digital cameras, etc). The new look and feel is somewhere between XP and a Mac. The one thing it doesn't do is recommend you stay with XP. If you want the best performance from your Pentium or Celeron based computer, stay with XP. Vista is slower than XP! To get the speed , you need lots of memory (2-4GB) and a dual or quad core processor. Also Vista will disable certain features (like screen transparency, called Aero) to try to keep the performance up. Installing Vista is where Microsoft got it right. It installs in about half the time it took me to install XP. When it couldn't find drivers, Vista used generic drivers to get the system running. I've been running different versions of Vista for about a year. I have yet to get a complete system lockup (blue screen). It`s very stable. But it can also be annoying. Whenever you go to do things, you get message boxes asking you if it's OK to do it. Then it might tell you that an administrator has to do it (even though you are an administrator account). It drives you nuts. However, it's easy to turn off. Go to the Help menu and search for "Turn off UAC" (User Access Control). There's a checkbox you uncheck to disable UAC. If you have multiple users set up on your computer, you need to do it for each one. I like Vista, but in my opinion I wouldn't upgrade an existing computer unless I had a compelling reason (like needing encryption). The cost of the Vista upgrade plus any hardware upgrades could reach the cost of a low end dual core computer that is made for Vista. However, when I buy a new computer I would definitely get Vista. Comment (1) | Permalink | function showYesNoCommunityResponse(uId,result,value) { var msgLayer = getElement("thanks" + uId); if ( result == "SUCCESS" ) { msgLayer.innerHTML = "Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided to other Amazon.com readers and reviewers. Your vote will be counted and will appear on the product page within 24 hours."; } else { showVoteErrorResponse(msgLayer,result,value); } } (Report this)