What Vista will you buy?

[directhex]

I presume that's OEM Office?

I went for VIsta Busines,, purely because it was on MSDNaa and therefore free, but I'm thinking of forking out for Home Premium, because I want the Media centre.

Will wait for a while, though.

nope.

retail msoffice 2007 home & student. £120 in hmv.

[Choo Choo]

You can get Office 2007 Home and Student for £99 at PCWorld, and you can get it cheaper if you buy it with a retail version of Vista.

I ended up buying the retail Vista Home Premium and Office Home/Student at the same time.

[darrensen]

It's a shame Outlook 2007 is not included with this package.

You can get Office 2007 Home and Student for £99 at PCWorld, and you can get it cheaper if you buy it with a retail version of Vista.

I ended up buying the retail Vista Home Premium and Office Home/Student at the same time.

[Splash]

Have you tried Windows Mail and Windows Calendar? You may be pleasantly surprised... Things have moved on nicely from Outlook Express.

[redlight]

Have you tried Windows Mail and Windows Calendar? You may be pleasantly surprised... Things have moved on nicely from Outlook Express.

Yes a great improvement. I am sure I will find many more things about Vista I like. At 48 it takes a little longer to get my head around new things.

[digit]

Have you tried Windows Mail and Windows Calendar? You may be pleasantly surprised... Things have moved on nicely from Outlook Express.

Amen to that! On my first install of vista I gave Windows Mail a go and the inbuilt spam filter is so much better then that built into thunderbird and of the limited usage I have had of third party spam filtering software. Its a nice slick interface, quick and easy to get up and running. PLesantly surprised how much things have changed. Agggh I'm tempted to get office 2007 now. It will fit into the shiny aspect of vista quite nicely

[afraser2k]

I'll be buying the Vista Home Premium retail unless the Ultimate extras are worth it. I'm waiting about a year though to see how things work out with the new operating system and my cash flow before I upgrade.

I'll be trying to get the business edition ASAP at work once they sort out what version they're getting.

[Howard]

Unless someone can convince me that it's radically better (not different, better) than XP, with a whole host of new useful features (not just a couple), and until the driver and software support is better, I'll stick with XP

[speardane]

I've looked at the features and the driver support.

I just can't see why I'd want to.

Couple Linux with vmware - look at their free vmware player and now their free tool to extract an image from a running machine and I can get everything I currently get, plus better perfromace and stability. I've paid my microsoft tax - but given how often I need to re-install windows, I've escaped from their built in hassle regading re-installs.

[bomber999]

i'll buy the ultimate OEM edition of vista, once they have released service pack 1 for it, because of the driver issues atm, theres no point. so probably in about 6 months ill get it.

[Koolpc]

Vista works like a dream for me!

[Splash]

I have it running fine on my new e6300 build, anyone with older hardware may find driver support somewhat lacking at the moment.

[Splash]

I've looked at the features and the driver support.

I just can't see why I'd want to.

Couple Linux with vmware - look at their free vmware player and now their free tool to extract an image from a running machine and I can get everything I currently get, plus better perfromace and stability. I've paid my microsoft tax - but given how often I need to re-install windows, I've escaped from their built in hassle regading re-installs.

Your post title suggests a pro Windows viewpoint, contrary to the content...

[cdpuk]

I'll probably be buying Home Premium OEM. For about £45 more, according to the MS site, I can get:

Windows Hold’em, a poker game for players of all skill levels - Don't care about that
Language packs for Windows multi-language interface - English is fine, thank you
Secure Online Key Backup - Useless for the amount of stuff I have, storage is cheap enough these days
BitLocker Drive Preparation Tool - To me, this seems that if Vista breaks I won't be able to use Linux to recover files from the Vista partition, which I've done with XP before.
Windows DreamScene - Huh? Pointless?

I think there's some other extras like Remote Desktop that you get, but again, I use VNC all the time which is free anyway.

Are there any other good reasons to buy Ultimate over Home Premium?

-Chris

[Mr Flibbles]

Does anyone know what the differences between the enterprise edition and the rest of the packages are? I can get this through work but if it's no good i'll buy the Ultimate version.

Thanks

[Splash]

Enterprise edition requires that the software be validated by a KeyServer every (if I recall) 120 days.