Choosing The Right Vista(Windows Vista Chart/Features)

HardOCP ^ | 11/24/2006 | Steve

[Echo Talon]

Choosing The Right Vista

VIA Arena has a very good guide to choosing the right Vista for your needs. There is a handy chart that shows you which features are in the different versions of Vista and what they mean to you. This is good reading for those of you planning to upgrade to Vista.

At a glance, here is a list of features that are not in every edition of Windows Vista. If the table cell is highlighted in blue then the corresponding features are in the corresponding edition of Vista. This should be your first place to look. If there are features you need or want you'd better get the edition that has them.

[Echo Talon]

PS, Echo is right... he's not a Mac guy.

Yea, i figured that I should send him to the person that would know about it. :)

[rdb3]

Those?

Yeah, "those." You know. A Zero bar...

;-)

[Uncle Hal]

Has anybody tried this. It is suppose to make XP look like Vista.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=162

[Echo Talon]

I haven't tried "this" exact one but have used other ones in the past and didn't like them...(this one may be OK, I'm just scared to try it because i had problems with previous versions, not just problems using it but also problems with uninstalling it AND other issues) make sure you do a back-up before you try this just to be on the safe side.

[antiRepublicrat]

I can see it now. In the future people will be comparing computers with Home Basic against Macs, claiming Macs are too expensive, when OS X looks to be the closest equivalent of Vista Ultimate, which costs $200 more.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Well, they're not going to have a choice at some point.

That'll be the day that I go to Linux. Vista ain't happening inside my domicile.

[antiRepublicrat]

It is very ODD to me that Vista Business will NOT have parental controls... wouldn't businesses WANT those features?

OS X Leopard (due just after Vista) has parental controls for web sites, computer use times, and application usage. You get the full version, no functionality locked out to try to force you to upgrade, whether you buy the low-end or high-end Mac.

[Echo Talon]

OS X Leopard

But then you have a POS mac.

[antiRepublicrat]

But then you have a POS mac.

What about it is POS? Remember, we're talking quality here, not the extent to which you can tinker.

In any case, the point is that Microsoft shot for OS X Tiger (the current version) when finalizing Vista, but as usual Apple already has the next leap ahead in the works. You'll always be behind when you copy instead of innovate.