Which Vista version?
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Yes, but it is hidden as an .exe file with many diryt words in the title. :omg: Happy hunting.:~
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I will upgrade to Windows Vista very soon which version should I get? There are so many to choose which version has best features and value? Thank you for help.
For personal use, home premium. For work use business. For dual use you need to check the features and decide if you can get by with one or the other, or need to shell out for ultimate. If you're willing to a buy an OS licence for
this computerinstead ofmy current computer(and *nix the old computer when you get a new one) you can get a system builder license for about 50% the cost of a retail version. What you loose in trade for the price cut is the ability to move your license to a new machine in the future. With XP it was primarily tied to the mobo and if you replaced it you had to do a phone activation and indicate you were only replacing a doa component. I don't know how vista handles hardware replacement with system builder licenses.-- If you view money as inherently evil, I view it as my duty to assist in making you more virtuous.
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I will upgrade to Windows Vista very soon which version should I get? There are so many to choose which version has best features and value? Thank you for help.
If you want to get any real work done, I recommend getting the XP version.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
I will upgrade to Windows Vista very soon which version should I get? There are so many to choose which version has best features and value? Thank you for help.
Pick up either Business (work stuff) or Home Premium (some work stuff + media pc). Only get Ultimate if you need every feature imaginable, or if you want Bit Locker. Otherwise, there's no point in getting Ultimate. As others have mentioned, getting the OEM or Upgrade licenses can save you money. Seriously, though, don't download illegal copies of it. You'll only cause yourself problems - such as getting blocked from security updates, or failing activation/validation and getting locked out of the OS. Flynn
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If you want to get any real work done, I recommend getting the XP version.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001I like it. :-> Flynn
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Ray Cassick wrote:
Talk with your pocket book.
His pocket book probably told him no.
"Find it your bloody self - immediately!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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If you want to get any real work done, I recommend getting the XP version.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/20015
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual." - Frank Herbert
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Ray Cassick wrote:
Talk with your pocket book.
His pocket book probably told him no.
"Find it your bloody self - immediately!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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Not true. If I took a $600K Ferrari with any possibility of buying, it would be considered Grand Theft Auto - a felony here in California, so stealing is stealing whether you cannot afford it or not.
"Find it your bloody self - immediately!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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Not true. If I took a $600K Ferrari with any possibility of buying, it would be considered Grand Theft Auto - a felony here in California, so stealing is stealing whether you cannot afford it or not.
"Find it your bloody self - immediately!" - Dave Kreskowiak
There is a difference between physical items and digital items. Digital items can be copied. Physical items can only be moved.
ROFLOLMFAO
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If you want to get any real work done, I recommend getting the XP version.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Windows Vista XP Edition is the best you can get.
ROFLOLMFAO
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There is a difference between physical items and digital items. Digital items can be copied. Physical items can only be moved.
ROFLOLMFAO
Making that argument on a forum largely populated by people who's livelihoods depend on creating digital items isn't likely to work. If you can't afford it - vote with your pocket. It's not likely anyone requires vista to carry on breathing. As has been said, I *want* a ferrari. As I can't afford it, I do without. I *want* office 2009.7435, but if I can't afford it, I'll do without [*]. Iain. [*] not actually true - I still use word 6 when I can - loads fast, and does everything I want it to, except load documents created more recently by other people.
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Pick up either Business (work stuff) or Home Premium (some work stuff + media pc). Only get Ultimate if you need every feature imaginable, or if you want Bit Locker. Otherwise, there's no point in getting Ultimate. As others have mentioned, getting the OEM or Upgrade licenses can save you money. Seriously, though, don't download illegal copies of it. You'll only cause yourself problems - such as getting blocked from security updates, or failing activation/validation and getting locked out of the OS. Flynn
Flynn Arrowstarr wrote:
Seriously, though, don't download illegal copies of it. You'll only cause yourself problems - such as getting blocked from security updates, or failing activation/validation and getting locked out of the OS.
To which I'll add getting rootkits preinstalled. About a year ago someone posted a study about various warez copies of windows on the net. IIRC ~80% were preinfected with malware.
-- If you view money as inherently evil, I view it as my duty to assist in making you more virtuous.
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There is a difference between physical items and digital items. Digital items can be copied. Physical items can only be moved.
ROFLOLMFAO
Ri Qen-Sin wrote:
There is a difference between physical items and digital items. Digital items can be copied. Physical items can only be moved.
Still no difference. Taking something that isn't free without paying for it is still stealing, whether it is digital or physical.
"Find it your bloody self - immediately!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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Making that argument on a forum largely populated by people who's livelihoods depend on creating digital items isn't likely to work. If you can't afford it - vote with your pocket. It's not likely anyone requires vista to carry on breathing. As has been said, I *want* a ferrari. As I can't afford it, I do without. I *want* office 2009.7435, but if I can't afford it, I'll do without [*]. Iain. [*] not actually true - I still use word 6 when I can - loads fast, and does everything I want it to, except load documents created more recently by other people.
Iain Clarke wrote:
It's not likely anyone requires vista to carry on breathing.
Yep. I am still breathing and living happily with XP.
"Find it your bloody self - immediately!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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There is a difference between physical items and digital items. Digital items can be copied. Physical items can only be moved.
ROFLOLMFAO
Ri Qen-Sin wrote:
There is a difference between physical items and digital items. Digital items can be copied. Physical items can only be moved.
There is no difference, as others have pointed out. Digital items are valued at the cost of man-hours required to build it, as are physical items, though physical items have the additional material costs to go along with. Digital may seem to be more expensive, but it is not. by comparison digital technology move much faster than engineering/built items mostly because of the material cost difference. I wouldn't recommend asking people who's jobs go into those hours that value digital titles. We're not the ones to tell you how to steal our own work.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Ri Qen-Sin wrote:
There is a difference between physical items and digital items. Digital items can be copied. Physical items can only be moved.
There is no difference, as others have pointed out. Digital items are valued at the cost of man-hours required to build it, as are physical items, though physical items have the additional material costs to go along with. Digital may seem to be more expensive, but it is not. by comparison digital technology move much faster than engineering/built items mostly because of the material cost difference. I wouldn't recommend asking people who's jobs go into those hours that value digital titles. We're not the ones to tell you how to steal our own work.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
El Corazon wrote:
Digital may seem to be more expensive, but it is not. by comparison digital technology move much faster than engineering/built items mostly because of the material cost difference.
Great point. When you have thousands of licensed copies of software out there, it lowers the manufacturing cost, whereas a $600K Ferrari like the one the owner of the place my wife works at, there are not very many of those around ( at least on the order of magnitude as software ).
"Find it your bloody self - immediately!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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El Corazon wrote:
Digital may seem to be more expensive, but it is not. by comparison digital technology move much faster than engineering/built items mostly because of the material cost difference.
Great point. When you have thousands of licensed copies of software out there, it lowers the manufacturing cost, whereas a $600K Ferrari like the one the owner of the place my wife works at, there are not very many of those around ( at least on the order of magnitude as software ).
"Find it your bloody self - immediately!" - Dave Kreskowiak
Paul Conrad wrote:
When you have thousands of licensed copies of software out there, it lowers the manufacturing cost, whereas a $600K Ferrari like the one the owner of the place my wife works at, there are not very many of those around ( at least on the order of magnitude as software ).
Are Ferrari's really any rarer than the similarly priced software like a database server licensed for a 64(?)way machine?
-- If you view money as inherently evil, I view it as my duty to assist in making you more virtuous.