| Customer Reviews: Average Rating: 2.5/5 |
| Vista Business upgrade: Rating: 5/5 |
| We purchased a compaq laptop with Vista Home on it for a great price. I'm MCP and A+ certified, so I felt an upgrade to Vista Business would not be a problem. This software did exactly what it was supposed to do. However, if you decide to perform an upgrade, be aware that some of the drivers may not be included in the upgrade. I spent a couple of hours with Compaq chat technicians to help me locate the drivers for the wireless network card, and about 4 other items that did not function after the upgrade. I expected this to occur, but felt it was worth getting the functionality for our network from Vista Business rather than staying with Vista Home. I briefly considered XP Pro, but having had experience trying to get a new OS platformed laptop to 'go backwards' to an old OS, I decided that staying in the Vista family was preferable. Another consideration when moving to Vista (especially from XP or W2K) are printer drivers. We had a terrific, newer HP all-in-one (copier, printer,fax) which lost its photo software after we moved from W2K to Vista. The copier/printer/fax operations worked, but I had no photo processing software and HP said they were sorry, but had no plans to provide a Vista version. |
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| Did not work with my system: Rating: 1/5 |
The product did not work with my system.
I don't know if I can return it. |
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| Don't waste your money: Rating: 1/5 |
| As an upgrade, this version just does not work. It hogs all the CPU power your system can put out. I wasted alot of man-hours on this version and regret buying it. I recently bought a new Mac Pro with 2 quad core Xeon CPUs, and tried installing vista on the Mac with Boot-Camp, and to my suprise, vista finally works. However most people do not have a Mac Pro, so again, I would say "don't WASTE your money". Either stick with XP, or buy a Mac. |
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| SERIOUS MISTAKE TO UPGRADE TO VISTA FOR BUSINESS: Rating: 1/5 |
My business software did not work with Vista and it is rigged to make it impossible or difficult to downgrade without buying a new Windows XP.
There are serious speed and compatability issues with Vista. Count on some of your software not running at all and if your computer is less than brand new it will probably slow dramatically as Vista is Processor and memory heavy.
No one therefore should be considering upgrading a less than brand new this year computer to Vista and would be putting their business at risk with compatability issues. Wait at least a year and check all of your hardware and software for compatability issues. |
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| The system delivers too little and wastes your time: Rating: 1/5 |
| I have the "business" version installed. I depend on a reponsive systemfor my livelyhood. VISTA does not deliver. WHomever designed does not have the end user in mind. It forever is going into a heavy disk activity mode and freezes the user out during this period. in esence you are not able to do any work until it gets done doing "what ever". XP-pro is a more dependable application. Maybe if Microsoft ever gets this worthless system to work I will use it until then Goodbye Microsoft VISTA. Maybe Apple has something to sink my teeth into. |
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