Vista Home or Ultimate?

[Don Bouchard]

Is there any advantage to the home user to insist on Windows Vista Ultimate
vs. Home Premium? I don't wish to set up an elaborate home wireless or other
complex network.

 

[Jon]

Is there any advantage to the home user to insist on Windows Vista
Ultimate vs. Home Premium? I don't wish to set up an elaborate home
wireless or other complex network.

There's no significant advantage in having Ultimate over Home Premium imho.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Is there any advantage to the home user to insist on Windows Vista Ultimate
vs. Home Premium? I don't wish to set up an elaborate home wireless or other
complex network.

It's simply a matter of what features come with each version. Other
than the feature set, the two are identical--equally stable, fast,
etc.

For the enormous majority of home users, Home Premium is fine and the
extra features of Ultimate are unnecessary. But only you can tell what
*you* need/want. Check here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/choose.mspx

or http://tinyurl.com/3843r3

 

[Paul Smith]

Is there any advantage to the home user to insist on Windows Vista
Ultimate vs. Home Premium? I don't wish to set up an elaborate home
wireless or other complex network.

I think one of the important features Ultimate has over Home Premium is
being able to restore previous versions of files. So if you overwrite a
file accidently you can recover it.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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[Pee Jay]

Is there any advantage to the home user to insist on Windows Vista Ultimate
vs. Home Premium? I don't wish to set up an elaborate home wireless or other
complex network.

Only if you want any of the features that Ultimate has but Home
Premium does not - see here:-

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/choose.mspx

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Don

There are many more differences in features than just networking. See the
following websites for more complete information.

Windows Vista: Features Explained:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/accessibility.mspx

Windows Vista Footnotes:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/footnotes.mspx

 

[Lang Murphy]

Is there any advantage to the home user to insist on Windows Vista
Ultimate vs. Home Premium? I don't wish to set up an elaborate home
wireless or other complex network.

If you think you might -ever- want to Remote Desktop into the PC in
question, then the answer is simple: Ultimate.

Lang

 

[Jason Freeman]

I'm sure this doesn't apply to you, but if you want to join a domain, you'll
at least need Vista Business. And if you want all the Home Premium features
that go along with it, you'll need Vista Ultimate.

PS: I really don't like the way Microsoft has made created the various
versions. To me, the Home/Professional duo was perfect in XP. I know why
they changed it (more potential revenue), but it can get aggravating if you
only need certain features of certain versions.

Jason

 

[Guest]

hmm...well...i think a vista home premium edition is good enough for a
general home user...

 

[Guest]

I have "Vista Home Premium" Don, and there is one feature that is really
missing : It cannot make a disk-mage of your system.
I had to buy "Acronis True Image" to make complete backups of of my system.

 

[Steve]

Is there any advantage to the home user to insist on Windows Vista Ultimate
vs. Home Premium?

Nope, nothing significant. And Microsoft is (finally) showing signs
of embarrassment about that...