Microsoft Windows Vista Business UPGRADE [DVD]

Average customer rating: 2.5

Do your research people...
Pretty...useless
DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY
upgrade is ok.....if you do not acutally use the upgrade part
My experience with Vista Business Upgrade

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Microsoft Windows Vista Business UPGRADE [DVD]

Manufacturer: Microsoft
Product Group: Software
Binding: DVD-ROM
ASIN: B000HCTYSU
2007-01-30

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- Marketing Information: Windows Vista Business is the first Windows operating system designed specifically to meet the needs of small businesses. It helps your entire business work more effectively, stay connected (both in and out of the office), and better protect key information. Product Information - Software Sub Type: Client - Software Name: Windows Vista Business - 32-bit - Upgrade - Features and Benefits: Built-in peace of mind: - Backup tools (including the ability to recover prior versions of documents) and a host of security features help protect your PCs and information from accidents and attacks Your workplace unplugged: - Taking your PC with you is much easier. You can automatically connect to wireless networks and quickly adjust mobile settings, such as power options, from one location Getting it done just got easier: - From Instant Search and simpler file sharing to integrated fax and scanning, using Windows Vista Business will help you save time every day Ready to grow when you are: - Windows Vista Business includes features, such as simpler troubleshooting and support for domains, which can reduce your costs while increasing your long-term IT growth potential - Language Support: English License Information - License Type: Product Upgrade - License Pricing: Standard - License Quantity: 1 PC

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Windows Fax and Scan simplifies your document handling and communication needs. View larger.</td></tr> </table> Ideal for organizations of all sizes, this software provides dramatic new infrastructure improvements, enabling IT staff to spend more time adding strategic value to the business and less time troubleshooting glitches. Windows Vista Business also offers powerful new ways to organize, find, and share information, while helping people stay better connected in the office and on the road. Update Eligibility
You can upgrade from your current edition of Microsoft Windows XP or Windows 2000 (including Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Media Center, Windows XP Tablet PC, Windows XP Professional x64, Windows 2000) to a corresponding or better edition of Windows Vista by purchasing and installing this upgrade copy of Windows Vista. Depending on which edition of Windows you are running and the edition of Windows Vista you would like to install, you have two options for the installation process: You can upgrade in-place, which means you can install Windows Vista and retain your applications, files, and settings as they were in your previous edition of Windows or you can do a clean install. If you are currently using Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP Professional x64, you are eligible for an upgrade copy to a corresponding or better edition of Windows Vista, but a clean install is required. For versions of Windows earlier than Windows 2000, upgrade copies are not available. These earlier versions of Windows require you to install a full copy of Windows Vista. Easier, Faster Access to Information
Windows Vista Business features Windows Aero, a new interface that delivers higher levels of efficiency for any business user. This easy-to-use interface makes it a snap to navigate through the operating system and from application to application. Most importantly, Windows Aero helps you juggle multiple tasks at once by providing a three-dimensional, real-time, animated view of all your open applications and documents. In addition to these navigation improvements, Windows Vista Business makes it easier than ever to manage huge volumes of business documents. By integrating search throughout the operating system and providing new ways to organize files, this software helps you quickly find exactly what you are looking for. Collaborate and Communicate More Effectively
Windows Vista Business helps your work teams collaborate and communicate more effectively, regardless of their location. By helping users find and use information quickly and easily, this software can dramatically improve how people in your organization access and apply essential knowledge and resources on PCs, in e-mail, from corporate servers, and on the Internet. Improved Security and Compliance
Protecting your business information and complying with regulations places increased demands on your IT staff. Windows Vista Business' more sophisticated data protection and auditing capabilities help simplify IT management and can help lower costs for regulatory compliance. In addition, with features like the Encryption File system, Windows Vista helps organizations manage security risks by protecting information and services in a more controllable and secure environment. Safe Operation
For businesses of any size, Windows Vista Business makes it possible for your IT department to configure users' systems so that they can log onto their PCs as standard users instead of as administrators. This helps minimize compatibility and usability issues that might have occurred in previous versions of Windows, while also making those issues easier to resolve. Moreover, this new capability significantly reduces the likelihood of a malicious attack causing damage to your organization's PCs. Keep Your Network Running Smoothly
For small businesses, Windows Vista Business includes new technology and tools to ensure your PCs are always up-to-date, more secure, and running smoothly. For instance, this software helps make your PCs safer with built-in protection against malicious software, or malware. And because Windows Vista Business warns you of impending hardware failures early on, you don't have to worry about the devastating loss of any important business data. No matter what potential problems arise, an array of sophisticated new backup technologies helps protect your information even in the event of a catastrophic hardware failure. When it comes to management, features like Domain Join and Group Policy support improve the efficiency of your workgroups. Small Business Resources
And for those who are not full-time IT professionals but have roles that require them to support their organizations' PCs, Windows Vista Business includes Small Business Resources. This built-in how-to guide leads you through everyday tasks and troubleshooting in easy-to-follow, non-technical language. By giving you the ability to solve problems as they arise, you can help keep your business efficient. Windows Vista Business also provides business specific features like fax and scan that increase productivity. Image-Based Installation
For larger organizations, Windows Vista Business has been designed from the ground up to improve the deployment and management of the central operating system. For instance, image-based installation is now the default method for installing the Windows Vista operating system, and the images are no longer hardware-dependent. These two key design principles enable your organization to dramatically reduce the number of images you are required to manage and streamline the process of deploying new PCs and updating existing PCs. The end result is faster, easier operation than ever before, which helps improve the overall productivity of your business. More Mobile and Better Connected
Today, more businesses rely on an ever-expanding mobile workforce as a way to enhance their scope of service and reduce enterprise costs associated with supporting a large on-site staff. Windows Vista Business gives mobile professionals easier and more secure access to corporate resources so they can readily collaborate with colleagues-- both on and off the network. Employees and colleagues will also find it easier to make wireless connections and synchronize mobile devices. The success of any business depends on communication, and Windows Vista Business helps you easily and quickly connect with your organization, your customers, and your partners, whether you are in the office or on the road. This software package includes all of the essential infrastructure required to more securely connect you to your business information whether you are sitting at your desk, working at home, connected to a Wi-Fi hotspot, or even if you are using your cell phone to connect to the Internet. To help you be more productive when you're away from your desk, Windows Vista Business includes Windows Tablet and Touch Technology, so you can interact with your Tablet PC by using a digital pen, your fingertip, or a keyboard. Improved handwriting recognition and easier ways to browse documents and programs without using a keyboard give you added flexibility and convenience. Easy Accessibility
Computers that include Windows Vista Business and an auxiliary Windows SideShow display will also allow you to access critical business information even when your computer is turned off. You can also share documents and collaborate with colleagues, partners, and customers--even if a network is not available. Additionally, Windows Vista Business helps you get the most out of your portable PC by making it quick and easy to manage key mobility settings. Cost Effective
Meeting the increasingly complex demands that are placed on your IT systems doesn't have to be expensive. Designed to be less expensive to deploy and support, Windows Vista Business offers you a better return on your IT investments. By empowering people to work more efficiently, this system helps keep both productivity and morale high.

Customer Reviews:

Do your research people..........2007-05-27

I installed this with no problem and absolutely love it. I enjoy the Vista interface and have found the navigation to be pretty user friendly.

Before anyone installs this, they have to do their homework. Microsoft offers a Vista Upgrade Advisor to let you know of potential problems with your current hardware and also software that you currently have installed on your system. If you decide to go maverick and install anyways then you get what you get...a mess.

I had a friend that didn't do his research and guess what. I got the call that Vista is crap. WRONG! He didn't do his homework. So I ended up helping him reinstall XP to factory and THEN installing Vista. He is rocking and rolling now.

So people, do your homework and here's some advice. Run the Vista Upgrade Advisor, look at the programs you all ready have installed and get in touch with the vendor to make sure their software plays nice with Vista. If it doesn't then look at incurring a fee to buy the version that does. If you look at everything in advance then there are no suprises; and yes, Norton Internet Security will have to be upgraded to the Vista capable version but I all ready knew that because I did my homework.

Pretty...useless.......2007-05-25

I'm going to make this as brief as possible. I don't like doing Microsoft Upgrades, as a rule, becaue they very seldom work well and there always seems to be a hidden problem that only surfaces after you think things are going well.

I've been a systems admin for thirteen years and over that time, I've learned a few things about Microsoft. First - I never apply the first version of any service pack. This lesson was learned the hard way back in the NT 4.0 days. Second - Always back up your computer before applying an upgrade (you'll be glad you did).

The only reason we decided to purchase the Vista upgrade was to determine if it was a viable approach to upgrading our desktops at my company. We were concerned about some of our legacy program's (anything that hasn't been updated in the last five years) compatibility with Vista and applied this upgrade to one workstation which is based on a standard company image. For the typical workstation, Vista appears to have all the necessary drivers and even our dual screen nVidia video cards work despite the warning that they might be incompatible (this is not old technology!).

So, after a very lengthy install process (you'd never know the days of installing Windows 95 on a 386 were history!!) the workstation upgrade was nominally successful. The ONLY advantage from our standpoint is that it's "prettier". You must get used to a completely different UI and figure out where Microsoft has decided a better place for something should be. NOTE TO MICROSOFT: Change for the sake of change doesn't automatically improve anything!

The caveat to this whole upgrade is that when I ran the upgrade on my personal workstation, it went well, judging by initial appearances. I disabled the security programs to eliminate the nagging "Are you sure you want to do this" nanny software, BUT, in the background there was always some vigorous hard drive activity. I disabled indexing and off-line caching and then discovered the real issue: Vista was resetting all my permissions on my hard drives and this, in turn, was causing a lot of my programs to fail due to "rights" issues.

Essentially Vista was sabotaging itself, by reducing me from an Administrator on my own machine to a restricted user. Did I bother to chase down the cause of this behavior and resolve it? For the remainder of that day I attempted to restore my ownership and authority, but Windows Vista had become a mad dog and my instinctive reaction, evetually, was to KILL IT! I formatted my drive with a sigh of resignation and relief and restored my XP Pro installation and have lived without Vista ever since.

Will I give Vista a second chance later on? Probably, but only because progress is irresistible and I will sooner or later HAVE to conform. Until that ominous day arrives, I will avoid the inevitable for as long as possible.

One thing seems to be sure: I have learned from some unfortunate dial-up users (get broadband, people!) that buying a brand new PC with Vista means you end up with a worthless mutant PC. The dial-up connection is too slow for Vista to do it's thing and you end up not being able to do anything until you get broadband or take your machine in to a place that has broadband to complete the personalization and registration processes.

So, if you HAVE to do Vista, do it from scratch and have a good internet connection. Good luck!!

DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY.......2007-05-11

Everything you are reading about this nasty program is correct. While it looks cool and has a very nice new Graphical User Interface... that's about all it does. It is by far the worst Windows update ever! I got my DVD today and performed the upgrade... which it would not do, and needed to install a clean copy of Vista. The entire process took about 50 minutes... WITHIN 30 minutes I was already doing a factory restore back to XP Media Center... NONE OF MY XP programs worked with Vista. Wait until they fix this horrible program! DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY!!! It's not worth it. This version has NO features... all the Media Center options are totally removed from the Business upgrade... All around it's a nightmare. PS you have to buy special Vista Anti-Virus... there are not many companies offereing "FREE" upgrades to Vista.

MICROSOFT... WHAT A MESS YOU HAVE MADE! Does anyone remember Windows ME? Yeah I didn't think so... well meet the new Windows ME!

So Sad!

upgrade is ok.....if you do not acutally use the upgrade part.......2007-05-05

I just installed windows vista busness at work and it installs just fine, if you do a clean install!

Here are some installation tips. First, I hate "upgrades" which this offers. I have done many "upgrades" and they either do not work, do not take, run slow, etc.

This is what I suggest. if you hard drive is big enough either partition your current harddrive to have 2 partitions. Install xp on one partition, and then the other partition install vista. You will have a duel boot option, which give you the option of either using xp, or vista.

The other option is purchase another harddrive, install vista on one drive and leave your current xp on your existing drive.

Vista run smooth, no problems. I did use the upgrade part, cuz it rarely works anyway. to give vista a 1 star cuz the upgrade does not work is fair. But I give it 3 stars, cuz if you have a current version of xp or 2000 you can do a clean install which works just fine. If you do not like these options, purchase the full blown version, cuz upgrades are horrible, regardless of what version of windows you purchase

My experience with Vista Business Upgrade.......2007-04-02

It's late at night and this will be a quick review based on my experience with VISTA business. I've only used the product for a week.

First, i'm at experienced PC user and like to always keep up to date with the latest hardware. I was reluctant to upgrade to VISTA at first because it didn't support my online postage provider's software (so I thought) as well as a game I play (that's now supported, but wasn't at first).

The one big thing that held me back from the upgrade is that Microsoft sure loves to confuse the customer. Until I ran the Upgrade Advisor I had no clue that the Vista Home Premium Upgrade couldn't be used to upgrade XP Pro without a clean install. In the end I had to go with this version. I normally refuse to upgrade an OS without doing a clean install first. That's for a very good reason! One last thing I don't like about Vista is that you can't do a VISTA clean install with the upgrade without first installing XP. Why is this?

So, I opened the box and put the disc in after removing several programs from startup such as my anti-virus program. The upgrade went perfectly fine and I ran into no problems at all. I was never once asked for a driver disc. Really.

At first I was surprised at how much background hard drive activity there was at first even when the system was not doing anything. I fixed that by disabling some things in Vista that run in the background. That seemed to help and I don't experience this as much anymore. Overall, programs seem to run just as fast as they did in XP. Maybe a little slower, but I haven't noticed much at all.

All my old programs ran fine. My online postage software, Internet Security software and even my Video Capture program. So far I haven't found anything that hasn't run properly, but that'll probably change soon.

I did however have one graphical glitch. There was a weird halo effect around my mouse pointer. It seemed to clear up a little bit when I installed some new Nvidia Beta drivers for my 7800GT. It still occurs, but rarely.

I also had some problems with the Windows Switcher randomly going to non-3d mode. I didn't realize at first it will not work in 3d mode without the Aero theme enabled. I don't understand why this is.

To be truly honest, i'm generally not a fan of Microsoft products. I'll use them and that's about it. I really thought i'd hate Vista, but I actually like it.. a lot actually. Sorry to sound like a commercial, but I really enjoy using it. I really have no clue why it's so expensive though! The price is way too high. The basic edition is priced ok, but I don't get why the other versions cost so much more.

I'm sure i'll come up with some bad things to say eventually. A few things have been annoying, but I can fix them with a little work. I'm quite annoyed that at default you can't delete or save to the root directory of C: without special permission. No big deal.

The backup feature is nice. I currently have my entire drive backed up every morning at 8am through the Windows Task Scheduler. There was no "easy" way to do this. I had to do some checking online for the settings to add this to the task scheduler.

I also found it strange that the other got I received an error message saying I couldn't edit video from an external drive without copying it to my main drive first! Hopefully I can figure out why this occured. Something I can fix quickly I hope.

Overall, I like it a lot. I definitely wouldn't bother installing it on a computer that's over a year old though. I imagine it would be pretty slow.

4-302-2007 UPDATE:

I've had way too many problems with VISTA. I've wiped my drive and reinstalled XP. Several programs would not run at all or crash for no reason. Even with the latest versions. I also found that several of my old programs ran incredibly slow. I have a fairly high end PC too with 2gb of ram. I kept everything updated and was never able to fix all my graphical glitches in VISTA at all. At first some of the "annoyances" didn't bother me, but after weeks of using this version of Windows i've just gotten sick and tired of them. I felt like I had no control over my system at all. I also did not feel safe using Vista. There's always something going on and using up CPU power without it showing up in the task manager. I understand this is how VISTA works, but it's annoying and I never tried turning off these features.

Just a note that if you want to reinstall Windows XP you'll most likely need to wipe the hard drive. I tried four times and couldn't reinstall XP with Vista still on the drive. It was pretty much hell and I gave up and wiped the drive. Back to XP. I now feel terrible for giving this OS a 4/4. I'd now give it a 3/5.

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