So there are 4 versions of vista.

Which one do you use at home and why.

Is ultimate really better and what is missing in home premium that you regularly wish you had or was in XP Pro?

I'm thinking Home premium or the Business edition at the moment?

I take it nothing for gaming etc is missing from the business edition.

Ta

EDIT: Has anyone loaded Viata onto a Flash disc/CF card and if so what sort of capacity was needed. I'm seeing 20GB banded around for the OS :eek:

You get Texas hold-em on ultimate thats worth the extra cash.lol

Windows Vista: Edition Comparison

Looking at that, basically bitlocker and a backup tool and that's about it.

The DVD R comes with Nero and a RAID 1 mirror and a manual drive image should do the trick for the rest of it.

Just can't believe you can't fit vista onto a 4GB flash card.

there's no media extender's in the business edition and things like windows movie maker are missing if you were looking at using that.

I have several licenses from my MSDN subscription to use on desktops for business edition (cough, hint)

Hmm your cough sounds contagious...

Vista Home Premium is all normal people should need

Vista Home Premium is all normal people should need

yeah, we've got home premium on our desktop, and suits us just fine.

although my laptop does somehow have business installed on it...maybe it's catching :confused:

Home editions dont support RDP which is annoying.. business editions have shadow copy and previous versions, autobackups etc but dont have media centre and movie maker

ultimate has it all

I use Vista Business on my machine as I don't care about the media centre tat

Got Vista Home Premium with the new computer, works fine for me.

Got Vista Home Premium about 7 or 8 months ago and had a few bugs with it. After several updates from MS these issues are nearly all sorted (there was a swine of a problem with connecting to the Internet when coming out of sleep mode, but this has now had a fix) hopefully there will be a SP1 along soon. I don’t get blue screens of death, but so get the occasional…….’ XXXX has stopped working and had to close down, Windows will inform you of a fix if we can ever be bothered’ flashing up on occasion.

Home editions dont support RDP which is annoying.. business editions have shadow copy and previous versions, autobackups etc but dont have media centre and movie maker

ultimate has it all

Home editions of Windows (XP and Vista) come with an RDP client, it's "just" the server they're missing. but there are ways around that, and there's always VNC

You say business doesn't come with the Media tools....

How extremely handy

Home editions dont support RDP which is annoying.. business editions have shadow copy and previous versions, autobackups etc but dont have media centre and movie maker

ultimate has it all

home versions are a waste of space the lack of RDP cripples them. I use ultimate.

ive got the bulk standard entry level, prepfer xp personally but it was cheaper. only use it for vag com, email and surfing so not to much bother to me.

Thanks guys, hopefully made the right choice on this one then

It's only to run along side Linux anyway, but the games prefer windows oddly enough

I've got Vista Business OEM on a disk.

I don't use it, I thought it was less than good.

It's no slower than XP when you get it tweaked up and it's faster to boot but it runs down laptop batteries too fast. The lappy fan was never off with Vista.

I would say home premium, I'm in the process of pricing to upgrade a friends O/S and some hardware and Vista hp seems to be the best bet. Ultimate isn't worth all that extra dough for Mr standard PC user IMO.

I'm still running XP on the XPS laptop as the upgrade I was sent was home basic - tight ********!