Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate - 32-bit - Upgrade

Vista With All The Features

Strengths: Vista Ultimate has all of the features of the various other editions.

Weakness: Hardware compatibilty especially with scanners is problamatical. Requires lots of RAM and a fast processor.

Vista Ultimate has a host of features that are usually purchased as third party software. The Snipping Tool is an enhanced screen capture utility; the complete image backup utility insures that you can recover from almost any disaster and the DVD Maker creates terrific slide shows with menus and music. I intend to use the free Microsoft Virtual Machine software to load Win XP and Win 98 within...

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Vista Upgrade Brand New

Strengths: Better than XP, I like it a lot, great features, nice improvements

Weakness: Absolutely does not let you remove Internet Explorer 7 and Intsall IE 6, which is the one I prefer, so I had to get used to 7.

I love Vista, it was very easy to get used to, but I am having a problem activating it. I think it is because my computer is 3 years old, not because the product is defective. I will add more memory and see if I can re-install Vista and fix the problem.

Vista Ultimate ROCKS!!!

Strengths: There are more features, as compared to Vista Home Premium, and I've noticed that my PC is a little faster!

Weakness: None so far, except that it's a little expensive overall. I'm quick to say this site had the best price!

I like the fact that I will have some additional protection for my hardware, as well as the fact that I can encrypt what I already have. I think that the entire Vista series, especially Ultimate, shows much promise, and will do better once the bugs are all worked out!

Go from old shoes to new shoes!

Strengths: More features and more comprehensive

Weakness: Need decent hardware to take full advantage

I initially thought I would wait a while before upgrading to Vista from XP. But I played around with a trial version of it and was hooked. It really is a step up from XP, and so far I have had no problems at all with it. I am not gamer, so am not concerned about driver issues like many are. I am using a Dell 710m laptop with 2 gigs of RAM and an 80 gig 7200 RPM hard drive.

Great

Strengths: Love it.

It's been a long time since coming for this product. A little expensive. Remote desktop should be in the home premium version though. The image backup feature is nice

My experience with Vista Ultimate Upgrade

Strengths: Nice interface with great support, useful tools, fun games, DirectX 10 for the future of computer games. Rock-solid security. Easy to upgrade from XP Professional using Ultimate.

Weakness: Some peripheral hardware devices that may not have native support. Uses large hard drive space. Supercaching requires nearly constant hard drive activity; sound may skip using AMD Cool 'n Quiet.

I purchased the Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade Edition to take my machine from XP Pro to Vista Ultimate. The installation was relatively quick and simple; the only somewhat difficult part was obtaining my video card and sound card drivers. Everything else, even my minimalist printer, worked with the included Vista drivers on the DVD. Even my wireless desktop card (Belkin) was able to detect my...

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Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate - 32-bit - Upgrade

Strengths: 32 or 64 bit available, doesn't need nearly as many patches as XP, yet. Runs very fast.

Weakness: Takes some work to get things working on the 64 bit version, but I found solutions for all my problems by googling on the issue.

Don't try the 64 bit version if you don't have a lot of experience trouble shooting problems. Eventually 64 bit will be the version of choice for everyone after companies get all the drivers and applications written and updated for 64 bit Vista.

Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate

Strengths: Security,dependability

Weakness: Much unsupported software, slow

I upgraded(?) from Microsoft Windows XP Professional to the Windows Vista with the Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate upgrade software. No doubt it depends what software you want to run on Windows Vista, but a lot of software is still not Vista compatible. After 5 months I just went back to the Windows XP Professional. My system has a Pentium 4 3 GHz processor with 2 GB SDRAM memory and I found the...

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Reasonable Product, Not Convinced It's An Upgrade

Strengths: Installs quickly, 32-bit support (for the most part), clean interface.

Weakness: Support for 64-bit version, price.

I've only scratched the surface of Vista so it doesn't seem like much of an upgrade to XP. OK, so the interface is a little more attractive and some menus & services are better organized but on the surface it's just cosmetic changes. Some have complained about the speed/sluggishness of Vista though it appears comparable to XP to me. I'll have to get further into Vista before I can say whether...

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Indeed the Ultimate!

Strengths: Built on Server 2003 stability, this OS is amazingly stable and beautiful. Even though it is new and will have the usual lack of older hardware driver issues, it knows most newer hardware.

Weakness: No REAL weaknesses at all

Many think it is a weakness to need more memory or better graphics cards. Think about it for a moment and it is obvious that it SHOULD need more memory and better graphics cards to support all the better features and the entire OS. Many folks should just upgrade their PC hardware or buy a newer PC altogether. It is time to do so. Vista (especially Ultimate) makes computing fun again!!!