Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate FULL VERSION DVD OLD VERSION
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- Mobility-based operating system meets all computing needs whether you're working from home, working on road, or searching for entertainment options
- Combines all the features of a business-focused operating system,
- All the efficiency features of a mobility-focused operating system,
- And all of the digital entertainment features of a consumer-focused operating system
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Package Dimensions : 7.4 x 5.3 x 1.5 inches; 12 Ounces
- Item model number : 66R-00002
- Date First Available : August 15, 2006
- Manufacturer : Microsoft Software
- ASIN : B000HCTYTE
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,169 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
- #139 in Operating Systems (Software)
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Product Description
Windows Vista Ultimate is the flagship edition of Windows Vista across consumer and small business desktop PCs and mobile PCs. The primary user of Windows Vista Ultimate is the individual, such as a small business owner, who has a single PC to use both at home and at work. This edition includes all of the features available in Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows Vista Enterprise. Windows Vista Ultimate is the first operating system that combines the advanced infrastructure of a business-focused operating system, the productivity of a mobility-focused operating system, and the digital entertainment features of a consumer-focused operating system. For users who want their PC to be great for working at home, on the go, and at the office, Windows Vista Ultimate is the no-compromise operating system that provides it all.
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The most comprehensive edition of Windows Vista, Windows Vista Ultimate (DVD-ROM) is the first operating system that combines all of the advanced infrastructure features of a business-focused operating system, all of the management and efficiency features of a mobility-focused operating system, and all of the digital entertainment features of a consumer-focused operating system.
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 Flip 3D to navigate through open windows using the scroll wheel on your mouse. View larger.
Compare Windows Vista editions.
Use Instant Search to quickly find the information you need. View larger.
Windows Vista Aero provides spectacular visual effects such as glass-like interface elements that you can see through.
The redesigned Windows Media Center in Windows Vista lets you enjoy your media throughout your home, even on your Xbox 360. View larger. For the person who wants one operating system that is great for working from home, working on the road, and for entertainment, Windows Vista Ultimate is a no-compromise operating system that lets you have it all.
Easier, Faster Access to Information
Windows Vista Ultimate 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. And for those businesses that do work in other countries, Windows Vista Ultimate supports all worldwide interface languages.
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.
Work From Home
Windows Vista Ultimate includes all of the features that make it easy to remotely connect to business networks. This means that when you're working from home, you'll have advanced networking capabilities, such as the ability to join a domain, support for Group Policy, and access to features such as Remote Desktop. Windows Vista Ultimate also includes Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption that provides improved levels of protection against theft for your important business data whether you are at home, on the road, or in the office.
More Entertainment Options
Windows Vista Ultimate delivers all of the entertainment features available in Windows Vista Home Premium, and includes everything you need to enjoy the latest in digital photography, music, movies, analog TV, or even HDTV. Ultimate also has helpful tools such as Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Movie Maker to ensure that you have everything you need to collect, manage, and edit your digital content. It also includes Windows Media Center for turning your PC into an all-in-one home entertainment center.
Versatile Operation
Windows Vista Ultimate truly lives up to its name by delivering all of the features both business and home users want and need. It is the ideal solution for both a small-business owner who wants a single PC that he or she can use at the office, on the road, and at home, and for someone who wants a home PC that will be used primarily for entertainment purposes but that can also be used for business purposes such as connecting to a corporate network.
From the Manufacturer
Get EVERYTHING that Windows has to offer. Windows Vista Ultimate is the most complete version of Windows Vista. It includes all the features available in Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows Vista Enterprise. In this version, you get the best of advanced innovation for business usage scenarios, advanced productivity for mobility-focused usage, as well as the top of the line digital entertainment features that you can enjoy at home. You will love how Windows Vista Ultimate transforms your PC to be simply amazing for your home, on the go, or at the office.
Keep Your PC and Your Family Safer Online
Help keep the entire family safe online with Parental controls. Windows Vista also helps you protect your PC from the impact of viruses and spyware by alerting you when potentially dangerous software is trying to run on your computer. Windows Vista Ultimate uses Windows Defender to help protect your PC by regularly scanning your computer and offering to remove any spyware or other unwanted software that it finds.
All the Right Tools You Need to Work More Effectively
Now, Windows Vista Ultimate makes working from home or remotely more efficient because it includes all the advanced networking, security, and productivity features included in Windows Vista Business. It keeps your data more secure even on shared computers by encrypting the files of each user, provides flexible, integrated faxing and scanning capabilities that make it easier to send and receive faxes, scan documents and images, and share those resources with other people. Windows Vista Ultimate also helps boost your PC performance and makes it more responsive by caching key system information on a USB flash drive or other flash memory form factor. (This speeds performance because the flash memory can often be accessed more quickly than the hard disk). It also helps improve PC responsiveness and helps make system performance more consistent by tracking which applications are used most often and preloading them into memory for quick access.
Everything You Need to Be Fun and Creative at Home (or Even on the Go).
Sit back and enjoy your favorite television shows on your own time with Windows Media Center. Watch, pause and record your favorite TV or premium high-definition (HD) cable television content, find the program you want using the built-in television guide, listen to your favorite music and share your photos with family and friends in a slideshow set to the soundtrack of your choice--all on your PC or a TV screen. With Extender devices like the Xbox 360 connected to your home network, you can even enjoy all the digital media you have on your PC virtually anywhere in your home. With Windows Vista Ultimate, retain high-definition (HD) quality as you capture, edit, and publish movies from your HD camcorder and create professional-looking DVDs complete with transitions and chapters that you can enjoy in your home DVD player.
Features in Windows Vista Ultimate
The greatest Windows Vista experience available.
- Windows Aero--features stunning visual effects, including helpful animations, transparent glass menu bars, and live thumbnail previews of open programs.
- Windows Flip 3D--enables you to dynamically flip through your open programs in a three-dimensional, stacked view.
- Instant Search--Find anything on your PC and on the internet with search technologies integrated throughout Windows Vista.
- Windows Ultimate Extras--get new and exclusive software and services available only for Vista Ultimate customers.
- Use your PC in multiple languages--can run in a different language for each user. Safer
- Windows Defender--helps safeguard your PC against spyware and security threats.
- Dynamic security protection--helps you browse the web more securely.
- Windows Backup and Restore Center--helps schedule automated backups of your important files and settings.
- Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption--helps to better protect your data against loss or theft if your mobile PC is ever lost or stolen.
- Anti-phishing technology--helps protect you from fraudulent websites that attempt to steal your personal information.
- Internet Explorer protected mode--helps prevent unwanted malicious software downloads.
- Parental Controls--manage the rules for your children's computer use including web access and games. Entertaining
- Windows Media Center--Watch, pause and rewind live TV or enjoy your entire digital entertainment library on your PC or television.
- Windows DVD Maker--burn your photo slide shows and home movies to DVD.
- Extend Windows Media Center--enjoy your digital entertainment on TVs throughout your home with an Xbox 360 or other media extender.
- Games for Windows--are available on your PC or online for every age and ability
- DirectX 10 --enables Windows Vista to run the latest, most graphically advanced PC games in the market.
- Windows Games Explorer--helps you install, manage, and enjoy all of your games in one easy-to-access location.
- Three new premium games--includes Mahjong Titans, Chess Titans, and InkBall,
- Windows Movie Maker--helps you capture, edit, and publish your digital home movies in standard or high-definition format.
- Windows Media Player 11--new features are designed to help you manage your library of digital music, photos, and video and synch with a variety of portable players. Mobile
- Fast Sleep and Resume--Pause and resume your computer session in just seconds while conserving your battery life in sleep mode.
- Network and Sharing Center--helps you more easily and securely connect to wireless networks.
- Windows Mobility Center--saves time by giving you quick access to key mobile system settings.
- Remote Desktop--connect more easily with remote PCs.
- Windows Fax and Scan--helps you send, organize and share faxes and scans.
- Domain Join--it's easier than ever to confidently connect with company or school networks.
- Windows Meeting Space--helps you wirelessly connect your mobile PC to a friend's PC for sharing files--even when you're not connected to the Internet.
- Sync Center--helps keep your portable devices synchronized with your PC.
- The best version of Windows for notebook PCs with enhanced Tablet Technology.
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Initially, I didn't like Vista because of all the redundancies built into its GUI, particularly in the Control Panel. When you open a section of the Control Panel, there are all these links that didn't exist in XP, but when you click them they all go to the same place. It just confused the heck out of me. I don't need a half-dozen ways to access something. I just need one. What I like about Vista as compared to XP is that the Control Panel items themselves haven't changed since XP. Win 7 on the other hand added more features that contain even more redundancies. Don't get me started with how much more complicated Win 7 is with its Libraries & home sharing. It's not like I don't know how to use it. In fact I do, but Vista & Windows Media Player 11 can do the same thing without them. And what's up with Microsoft putting "My" in the folder names of Win 7 again like in XP, but when you click in the address bar to type the directory location, there's no "My" there?! Lastly, the Win 7 color scheme is just awful. It's so hard to tell which is the active window by looking at the task bar & the grey/white font color on a white or nearly white background makes it extremely difficult to read text.
People don't really love XP, they just hate all the clutter that was added to Vista & 7. Those old enough to have used Win 2K, ME, & other older OS thought that XP was cluttered. Vista & especially Win 7 trumps XP in this regard.
I like Vista because it retains some of the relative simplicity of XP & is very XP-like. What makes Vista better than XP is its Windows Search. I use it all the time. Win 7 screwed up Search by making it more complicated. The other feature that sets Vista apart from XP is its power management settings. Hybrid sleep, once set up properly, will save lots of time when waking up the computer.
Yes, Vista is bloated out of the box & doesn't show its benevolent side at first, but once you go thru the Control Panel & customize all the settings & uninstall & disable unnecessary software & processes, & even edit the Registry, you can make Vista run faster & exactly the way you want it. The part I don't understand is that why are all the useful features hidden by default? It took me countless hours to setup.
Before buying this full version of Vista, I had already purchased the full version of Windows 7, something I regretted later. Windows 8 at first glance appears to be heavily geared towards "content consumption" rather than user input directed computing. So unless I buy a tablet, I'm gonna stick with Vista as long as I can.
computer. this made me worry right out the door and can cause big problems for those who dont have alot of money in there pocket windows 7 is not for you. the buget of 3000 and under.
then i saw this microsoft windows vista ultimate full version and i remember using vista on my sony vaio laptop it came with vista HP 64-bit. of course vista has a wei scale but for max it does not take a arm and a leg to figure out that this os needs more ram.
as soon as i heard that i was like hell ya. why not have a computer with 32gb of system ram with the wei being at max of 5.9
and 2 amd radeon HD 6770 1gddr5 cards rated at max 5.9 and my hard drive. say good bye to having to go to SSD for max proformace this version of windows fully uses hard drive with the 3gb/s line. which it grades it at 5.9 the amd FX 8 core 8150 is also rated at 5.9 max
have you ever seen a golden flag by your wei i have and you get this with this version of microsoft windows. never again do i have to worry about not having the latest video cards ever again vista makes it worry free.
and also for a gamer its a native 64-bit platform and vista just got full support for directx 11 (like the good old days when windows allowed users to upgrade to the new directx version for the os. 95/98/me/2000 days)
and this version of windows is a networking heaven if you know what your doing vista is your best friend. there is so much sercuity with this version it makes it hard to say no too. i hope this review make clear of my choice of OS from microsoft. this version of windows happens to be one of my favorites.
People have been complaining about the User Account Control setting and "if they turn it off, they will be missing the main purpose of Vista". I got sick of it myself and turned it off. No, I didn't just blow away 400 dollars for doing that. I also do not get more viruses, trojans, malware, etc. because I know how to use a PC and I know what to stay away from and I do not need an OS to tell me otherwise.
LINUX may the best for some poeple but if I have to read 50 webpages about installing device drivers and plug-ins, I'd rather deal with the Microsoft 'crap' everyone else seems to complain about.
Apple may have a better looking and more stable OS, but I do not want to spend thousands on a PC that I do not need. If I were a graphic artist, movie producer, or some artsy fartsy hippie, I would also be on every forum backing up Apple and how great they are.
All in all. Bill Gates is smarter. Is a better 'business man'. And if you and I were in the same position he was in when these companies first started, we would have done the same thing...boohoo Stevie Jobs.
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Vista OS is not that bad, but there are better Operating Systems on the market now.




