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Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate OEM/OEI DSP - 32-bit Edition (PC DVD) | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft OEM Licence
Category: Software
Buy New: £130.00
New (2) from £130.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 1214
Platform: Windows Vista
Media: DVD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0.4 x 0.4 x 0.4
Legal Disclaimer: Disclaimer: This OEM product is intended for system builders and may or may not be transferrable to another PC once it is installed. This product is for New and/or Fresh Installation and is NOT Retail nor Upgrade product. The purchaser of this product is required to comply with the terms of the System Builder license, including the responsibility of providing all end user support for the software.
Model: 66R-00765
UPC: 882224348652
EAN: 0882224348652
ASIN: B000MFFIBO
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews: Read 18 more reviews...
 Slower then XP and don't you dare upgrade your hardware May 25, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Yes listen to what I have to say cause it will save you money and hassel in the long run. Vista needs just on it's own 1GB anything else you want to run on that you need extra ram so minimum you speaking about 2 GB. Another clever thing is if you upgrade the hardware that's it your copy is invalid again you have 3 days to phone microsoft and hope they activated or send you to a website and troubleshot it yourself. I would like to know what microsoft has thought about when bringing this into the market. Suppose to be more secure not in a million years it's bugy and a security risk yeah there way of calling this secure is to implement 50 security warnings pop up before you can run a program. If you don't believe me check google what businesses think of vista. They have all force Microsoft to create a service pack 3 for XP and all went back to XP. XP beats vista anytime. Conclusion it looks nice and has nice couler and themes is it a good system answer no it's to expensive and not worth the disk it is burned on. Don't waste your money stick to your XP if possible migrate to ubunto or mint they are nearly as user friendly as XP but free and more secure.
 Maybe the most underrated OS from Microsoft ever... April 3, 2008
For those who are still undecided, please download and run the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor, and compare the different editions before purchasing Vista to determine which features you want and need. Don't just trust the manufacturers bundling any odd Vista version with their hardware.
It's also very helpful to look for Vista versions of drivers for peripherals, so as not to get any nasty surprises. I knew I'd have to make a choice between Vista and my all-in-one, thanks to the Upgrade Advisor. That said, Vista comes with many many more drivers than XP did, making things a lot easier.
OK, hardware requirements for the OS itself are high but PC manufacturers have to make some money, too. If it's not them it's some well-known imaging applications, new versions of which demanded more and more resources long before Vista was even released and made me upgrade the machine I had then.
The only real problem I experienced with Vista so far was to move the user directories. Microsoft's fix didn't fix the problem, but I found a solution (cut and paste) after 3 re-installations within 1 week, and on the way there I was given a chance to familiarize myself with many of Vista's new admin features. And useful they are.
The complete PC backup especially proved a blessing in this situation - although it just decided to take all updates I had installed until then off the list of installed updates (consider this as a bug), but thankfully did not offer re-download either. It also remembers that I had switched to Microsoft Update, but does not say so in Windows Update (another small bug).
Application compatibility is a lot better than I feared. Even some DOS admin programs can be made to work nicely with a rather low effort on configuration. The only program reported to be incompatible was Norton AV 2005.
Explorer sometimes "hangs", especially when I open a folder containing large files but I blame this on my new AV with its four scanning engines. I just don't always think that Microsoft are the bad guys.
Granted, Vista isn't flawless. But no MS OS has ever been "flawless". It's not running slow on my PC (512MB graphics memory, 2 GB DDR2 RAM) and UAC is less of a nuisance than I expected after reading some reviews. If Vista stays with us for as long as XP has done (6 years after all) we won't be able to avoid it.
I chose Ultimate because I just wanted to have the ability to join my PC to a domain AND Media Center connectivity. While I don't game and therefore can't comment on it, it does as good a job on everyday office and DTP tasks as XP did.
The only thing I don't like is the much too graphical installer. I guess I'm just not a mouse person.
On an overall note I say "Well done, Microsoft". I like Vista Ultimate.
Vista Ultimate x64 January 11, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Recently used this, actually got Home Premium x64 but decided to try Ultimate. I have found that most drivers or devices will work better if you disable UAC. I have found UAC (User Account Control - if you don't know - is the thing that pops up asking you for confirmation every five seconds - people complain but don't realise you can switch it off in Control Panel, which makes a vista experience a more pleasurable one. Also used with 4GB of RAM is a pretty amazing OS.
At the end of the day you can only make a judgement if you use this yourself, but, bear in mind most driver issues now have been sorted, only devices that are very old will have problems and to be perfectly honest, if your machine is very old then stick with XP, cos chances are, you don't have a hope of running this, if you do, i recommend :D
 Buyer beware November 29, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought my OEM version of Vista Ultimate from my pc builder so it was preloaded, but the disk I got with my system was this one. Vista looks great but you should proceed with caution. The OS is very new - lots of new programming rather than just a rebuild of XP - and it has lots of problems. In effect it is more like a beta than a fully-fledged new OS.
Many of the problems seem to be caused by drivers, even ones which say they are for Vista, and there are many reports on the internet of conflicts with software especially virus detectors.
Everything I ordered for my new PC I checked in advance would work with Vista but I found that my virus software, my sound card software (especially the automatic updater) both conflicted. I also gaily used the wonderful easy transfer program to bring over all my files and settings from my old PC and I wonder now if that was a mistake.
In the event my beautiful all-singing, all-dancing new PC looked wonderful for about five minutes and then began to go wrong. I saw so many blue screens that it was like running Windows 98 all over again. I saw black screens, I saw endless hangs of OS programs like Windows Mail, and every few minutes one of the OS features like Superfetch or Search would crash and Vista would ask if it could look for a solution online. I couldn't even play the Spider Solitaire that comes with the OS.
I hunted the internet for advice and solutions and came across other people having the same problems as me - lots of them. My PC builder reported that at a rough guess about 80% of their new Vista customers were happy, and nearly 20% were having problems like me. In the end I gave up and tried to reformat my disk to reload my faithful old XP.
But Vista doesn't let you reformat your hard drive - unless you are pretty techie you won't be able to get into your master boot drive to boot from the XP disk - you get a slave boot screen instead which Vista then overrides. After weeks of increasing frustration I had to send my desktop back to the manufacturer who are kindly sorting it out and loading XP for me.
So do be warned - Vista looks gorgeous and has some wonderful features such as the built-in anti-phishing controls in Windows Mail. But it could cause you a great deal of grief. I ignored the advice of people who knew better than me to wait at least for service pack I - now they are welcome to say 'I told you so!' for they were right.
Oh, and the OEM version appears to be slightly different to the full retail version - for example Vista has drivers for my portable hard drive pre-loaded, but sometimes it can find them and sometimes it can't. When I asked the hard drive manufacturer for help they asked if I was running the OEM version of Vista - all the problems they had had calls about were from people running OEM. Coincidence? I don't think so. So yes, it's a lot cheaper, but unless you're a system builder you're not meant to buy this version, and if you have an experience like mine you'll wish you'd never wasted your money.
Windows Vista Ultimate - The WOW factor! November 27, 2007
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a reliable, sophisticated operating system. This version for system builders is very cheap considering Windows Vista's harsh price tag for home users. This works best on 4gb of ram, thats if you want it to perform optimal.
THIS IS A GREAT PRODUCT!
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