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Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic FULL VERSION [DVD] [OLD VERSION]

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic FULL VERSION [DVD] [OLD VERSION] Software


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Product Detail Information:
ASIN:B000HCTYT4
Sales Rank: 419
Catalog:Software
Binding:DVD-ROM
Product Group:Software
Product Type:Software
Release Date: 2007-01-30
Brand:Microsoft
Manufacturer:Microsoft Software
Model: 66G-00002
Part No: K62620
UPC: 882224181112
EAN: 0882224181112
Batteries Included: No
Format: DVD-ROM
Hardware Platform: PC
Operating System: Windows Vista
Platform(s): Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 2000
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No


Features:
  • User-friendly software features search and organize innovations as well as improved networking opportunities
  • Designed for users with the most basic computer needs
  • Helps people use their PCs securely and reliably, makes it simple to stay better connected, and is compatible with the widest range of software, devices, and services that people use and trust every day
  • Rich new interface, innovative ways to organize and find the information stored on your PC, and a multitude of entertainment options with live and recorded TV on your PC
  • Provides the essential tools and technologies to help protect you whether you are browsing the Internet, connecting to a wireless network, or just reading e-mail
Product Description:

- Marketing Information: Windows Vista Home Basic is the edition of Windows for just the essential home computing needs, such as using e-mail, browsing the Internet, or viewing photos. While it lacks many of the features of Home Premium, it is easier and safer than Windows XP. Product Information - Software Sub Type: Client - Software Name: Windows Vista Home Basic - 32-bit - Complete Product - Features and Benefits: Easily find everything on your PC and the Internet: - Instantly find information on your computer - including documents, e-mails, photos, and even music files - with Instant Search, which is integrated throughout Windows Vista Stay up to date: - See the information you care about instantly with Windows Sidebar and gadgets, which bring real-time information, like weather and news, directly to your desktop Relive a lifetime of memories: - With Windows Photo Gallery, itandquot;s easier to download photos from your digital camera and then organize, edit, view, and share them with family and friends Defend yourself: - Windows Defender helps automatically safeguard your PC against pop-ups, slow performance, and security threats caused by spyware and other unwanted software Defend your kids: - With Parental Controls, you can manage the rules for your childrenandquot;s computer use. You can set time limits and manage their access to the web and to PC games - Language Support: English License Information
Windows Vista Home Basic (DVD-ROM) offers search and organize innovations as well as improved networking opportunities. Windows Vista Home Basic is the edition of Windows Vista for users with the most basic computing needs. The features in this user-friendly software also form the foundation of all of the other editions of Windows Vista, including Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows Vista Ultimate.



Windows Sidebar gives you quick access to gadgets like picture slide shows, Windows Media Player controls, or news headlines. You pick the gadgets you want to see in Windows Sidebar. View larger.


Use Instant Search to quickly find the information you need. View larger.


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Windows Photo Gallery gives you a whole new way to manage, find, and view your digital photos. View larger.


Manage your schedule, sync up with other calendars, and make sure you never miss another appointment using Windows Calendar. View larger.


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Breakthrough Windows Vista Experience
Designed to help you feel confident in your ability to view, find, and organize information and to control your computing experience, all editions of Windows Vista introduce a breakthrough user experience. The visual sophistication of Windows Vista helps streamline your computing experience by refining common window elements so you can better focus on the content on the screen rather than on how to access it. The desktop experience is more informative, intuitive, and helpful. And new tools bring better clarity to the information on your computer, so you can see what your files contain without opening them, find applications and files instantly, navigate efficiently among open windows, and use wizards and dialog boxes more confidently.

Secure and Effective
Windows Vista Home Basic helps people use their PCs securely and reliably, makes it simple to stay better connected, and, like all of the editions of Windows Vista, is compatible with the widest range of software, devices, and services that people use and trust every day. For those who simply want to use their PC to surf the Internet, correspond with friends and family using email, or perform basic document creation and editing tasks, Windows Vista Home Basic delivers a safer, more reliable, and more effective computing environment.

More Productivity
Windows Vista Home Basic helps encourage better personal productivity while providing digital entertainment on your PC through its improved reliability, security, and performance. It also helps you to accomplish tasks faster, with a rich new interface and innovative ways to organize and find the information stored on your PC.

Safer and More Reliable
Specifically designed to be the safest operating system Microsoft has ever delivered, Windows Vista Home Basic frees you from worry about the safety and security of your time on the computer. In fact, every edition of Windows Vista, including Windows Vista Home Basic, provides the essential tools and technologies to help protect you whether you are browsing the Internet, connecting to a wireless network, or just reading e-mail. In addition, Windows Vista Home Basic includes innovative tools that warn you of impending hardware failures long before you have lost any important personal data. Additionally, this system comes equipped with up-to-date parental control features that allow you to manage and monitor your family's use of games, the Internet, instant messaging, and other activities on your PC that might concern you as a parent.

Easy Set-Up and Operation
As with all of other editions of Windows Vista, Windows Vista Home Basic makes your PC significantly easier to use thanks to helpful tools that let you painlessly move your personal files and settings from your old PC to your new Windows Vista-based PC. Additionally, Windows Vista Home Basic integrates new search tools throughout the operating system to help you quickly find the precise file or program you need. Even if your existing PC seems to be adequate for basic tasks such as reading e-mail and browsing the web, by upgrading your PC to Windows Vista Home Basic or by purchasing a new PC installed with this software, you will benefit from a better computing experience and more peace of mind.



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Vista Basic: The closest Vista product to XP you can get
3/3/2008
Windows Vista Basic is worth purchasing for only a few reasons.
1) It is inevitable that at some point (though certainly not now), Windows will stop creating service packs for Windows XP.
2) Regardless of Vista's RAM-consuming ways, companies have shifted and will continue to shift away from creating software compatible with Windows XP towards software compatible with Windows Vista.
3) Vista Basic is, by far, the least RAM-consuming Vista product available. You might be able to run it without using half of your RAM idling. If you want a more advanced Vista, make sure you have a gigabyte or two of RAM to spare to actually do anything.

Anyways, if you use your computer for internet and simple Word/Excel/PowerPoint documents, don't bother switching to Vista. There's no point. If you like to stay on the cutting edge, get Vista, and stand in awe of its Mac-esque bubbly-ness and ability to do nothing while frying your system resources.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

paranoid
2/15/2008
Vista finds everything strange and suspicious, even other microsoft products. Even word documents you wrote yourself will not load without permission being given by a supervisor (I forget the exact title they use) even when you are the only one who uses the computer. You have to do virus checks et al several times a day even if your computer (like mine) is not connected to the internet. It constantly runs programs without asking if you want them or telling you they are running. and then turning the computer off when the program you aren't using turns itself off. Although it is supposed to be compatable with XP programs, it crashes the computer 1/3 of the time if you try to load one. The ones it will run, run at half the screen size. Even programs on your hard drive are pronounced strange and unknown if you dare to try to use them.
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All style, no substance
2/7/2008
Bought a new laptop that came with Vista basic on it. I used it for about 15 minutes before I gave up and wiped the hard drive and installed XP. The pointless animations on every menu push the CPU to it's limits, leaving nothing left for, say, internet browsing, or solitaire, for that matter. What especially bugs me is that Vista has such a resemblance to Mac OSX. If I wanted a Mac operating system, I would buy a mac. But no, I guess Microsoft feels threatened, and decided to blend in with the opposition. Well guess what, it didn't work.
Buy Windows XP instead, less flair, more function.
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Not bad only if used on an Intel-Based Mac even then it's nothing speical
2/3/2008
I am a MAC user and Leopard walks all over Vista, however I used to run both OS's using my new Macbook Pro and I have grown to tolerate Vista somewhat since I now have a computer than runs Vista with out a hitch. A Hitch meaning I have resources left to do other things other than just run the OS. I choose to buy Home Basic becasue it has the features I was looking for In a Windows OS and allows me access to the windows only programs and games that I cannot access using Leopard. I read the features of all the versions of Vista available and Basic was the only one and chepest one I needed. Premium has extra features that don't mean squat, and Ultimate is used for business mostly with extra features and cash costs that I don't need. So for a Mac user with the new Macbook pro computing power, and the best OS out there (LEOPARD OS X 10.5) it's nice to be able to run windows when you need it (which isn't often using Leopard). Mac's have it all friends, and you can even run Vista better than a PC can. In my opnion Vista was made to run as a secondary OS under Leopard onca MAC that can actually handle it to give Mac users access to windows only programs.

Overall Windows Vista Home Basic although buggy and lame can run on a MAC at it's full potential which again doesen't measure up.

Likewise alot of reviweres have the complaint that Vista needs 2 GB of ram min. to run. My old laptop an Athlon 3500+ 1GB ram 80gb HD system (an XP laptop) loaded Vista Home Premimum easily and handled the OS fine right up until I sold it to buy a Mac. I have yet to see a failed Vista installation, or problems using the OS with systems that have 1GB of ram and less. Still for the best Vista experience, buy a MAC and dual boot or use paralleling software to run it with Leopard.

* Removed Windows Vista Partition, I have Home basic if I need it but for now using Leopard windows is redundant and annoying to upkeep having to download so many damn updates everyday just to run the OS.
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HATE IT WITH A PASSION!!
1/30/2008
Oh my gosh! I hate Windows Vista. My laptop is brand new and it's a good quality laptop and it goes sooo slow! It will freeze with one program running! It takes forever to restart the computer, turn it off..anything I do it takes forever!! I literally sit here and wait for it to do normal things like open up the internet browser window! I have no good things to say about it at all! Sure it looks all nice and pretty but its horrible horrible horrible! I wished I would have read reviews about it before I bought my laptop so I would of known to get it with XP. I'm seriously considering wipping Vista off completely and installing XP. Everyone I've talked to that has it hates it. I haven't heard of anyone that likes it! I gave it way too much credit for giving it one star but it made me.
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