Windows Vista Ultimate Edition Features
Windows Ultimate is unique in that it not only features all the features of the other Windows editions, but also includes downloadable Windows Ultimate Extras. Available through Windows Update, they are slated to include some pretty incredible software. Microsoft bills them as cutting edge utilities and applications.
Flip 3D is a cool way to breeze through the open applications on the Windows desktop. Plain-old Flip is the new name for the Alt+Tab combination that shows your open applications and lets you choose from among them. Now, however, you can also use the Windows key with Tab to present a 3D view of your open applications. The applications also show whatâs going on inside them. This Aero feature is both nifty and handy.
Windows Vista Ultimate is the first operating system to live up to its name. It truly is the ultimate in desktop operating systems. This book guides you through the new features with a strong focus on multimedia and gaming, as well as shows you how to install Windows Vista fresh or upgrade your legacy Windows installation; how to network multiple computers in a home environment;
how to get the most out of your movies, photographs and music; and how to leverage the new gaming features to your advantage; and thatâs just the beginning.
Windows Vista Ultimate is designed for multimedia and gaming, and it boast a host of new features to make audio, video, and interactive experiences better than ever before. Besides the Games folder, mentioned earlier, it incorporates a bunch of other nifty upgrades.
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March 10th, 2010 at 8:27 am
Windows Vista?
Since Windows Vista is being released January 30, 2007; I’ve started some researching about the features that is contained within each version and have narrowed it to 2 different versions; Vista Home Premium; or Vista Ultimate. I need some advice on which version is worth it’s money (upgrade pricing) and are the features even useful for a computer enthusiast.
Vista Home Premium is cheap to begin with (159.99) and it has some of the features I want. But Vista Ultimate has every feature I want but its 259.99, and i’m wondering if it’s really worth the money to pay 100 dollars more for the "ultimate edition."
March 10th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
I don’t think the ultimate is worth the premium. Our company beta tested Vista and I am going with Home Premium.
Be aware Vista will be slower then XP in most functions. It does better on dual core systems but still gets dogged down by overhead.
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March 10th, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Just think about the difference between XP PRO vs. Home. Pro is virtualy limitless, you can do so much cool stuff Home just isnt capable of. Pro is like the "do whatever you want OS". Go for the better version, the best available version always.
Its worth the money. You will regret getting the lesser version, just as all those people regretted getting media center edition when they realized it was a joke.
IMO, I dont see why people want to waste their money on vista. It doesnt do that much more than XP, and it has many more limitations. Why buy Vista when you can buy a mac and get OSX, which is so much better. No comparison.
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March 10th, 2010 at 1:33 pm
This is just my opinion, but if you really want the ultimate version, I think you should spend the extra money, and just buy it. If you get the home premium, you will probably not be happy with it, because you want the features of ultimate. If you decide later that you want ultimate, then you will have to start over, and buy the full version of ultimate anyway..Do what makes you happy..Good Luck..
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March 10th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
i know the desire of wanting to be on the cutting edge and wanting the latest version of everything. especially since we haven’t had an OS in 5 years now. i also know that when i have to work with windows xp home or media center edition, i get this urge to toss the computer from the top of sears tower because it’s missing just the one feature that i want to use right now. i’d definitely go for the ultimate.
having said that, if you are wondering if $100 is worth it for the operating system, you probably don’t have the latest and greatest graphics card, cpu, and amount of ram. and if you do, then you already know that nvidia doesn’t have complete working drivers for it yet. remember when windows xp first came out? what were the hardware requirements? would you run a computer, today, with hardware from 2001/2002?
similarly, vista is very resource intensive; in as little as 6 months to a year, you will want to upgrade your hardware. so now, do you want to re-install the vista on the new machine? or would you rather buy a brand new computer with vista pre-installed?
consider that in about 6 months we will have ddr3 (toss out your current memory and motherboard!), (hopefully by now you upgraded your graphics to pci-express), and the latest generation of graphics cards is about to go retail in just a few months.
have you examined your current applications for compatibility issues? there’s still a few lurking around….i’d seriously not upgrade yet.
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March 10th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
I just wonder if at $260, it wouldn’t be worth spending a couple hundred more and getting a brand new Mac Mini, complete with an OS that has all of the Vista features, but is at this point more mature.
Not that I don’t trust that Microsoft will put out a quality product the first time……
Also, Vista is definitely a very expensive home OS, and as people who have beta tested can attest to, it’s going to be slow due to excessive overhead.
edit: you mean most PC’s don’t already come with PCI express graphics???
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March 10th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
soon you will be able to download the version you want from this site. http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/results.aspx?text=vista&tabid=2
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