Microsoft Windows Vista Business

Introduction: Well love it or hate it Microsoft's new operating system, is starting to get a foothold on everyday computers now. Since support for XP is going pretty much stop now, and Vista is due to become standard, I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon. You may be wondering why I have business edition. Well I'm a student, doing a Software Engineering course, my university is part of Microsoft's Academic Alliance. This allows me to freely download certain software, such as Vista, Visual Studio 2005 etc. Vista Business was the only version I'm allowed. If you can do this, I would, it's a great ... more

I run small business server on my small network, however on my back-up laptop which is not part of the LAN I am now using MS Vista Business. It is very good and stable, and many users complain that there is all sorts of bus etc.. I can remember the same said of Windows 3.1, 95, and many computer magazines wrote some very nasty comments about Windows 98 before the SE edition was launched. Windows 2000 was a good system from day one, whereas lets forget ME. Windows XP suffered from the same sort of problems that Vista has. namely, lack of drivers for peripherals, graphics and expansion cards ... more

Vista is the future!! It might suck, be slow, be full of bugs but it is great! Pros and cons: Pros: Vista is going to be the main operating system, It has new fantastic features and amazing grapfics. A bit of a copyright issue with Apple but what the hell still makes it look great. Does what its told to do... almost. Runs quite a lot of XP software but i strongly recommend that you wait for the service pack to be released. I'm not sure whether vista business is suitable for businesses because there are a lot better software to use for small businesses. BUT it does offer a lot of support and ... more

Looks great, but performance really suffers. I recently upgraded to Vista business having always been an early adopter for Operating systems, however this is the first time ive considered downgrading. Im running this on a "Vista Ready" Centino Duo laptop and i have had to turn all settings to the lowest possible in order to get remotely copeable performance out of it. My boot up time has increased by approx 40 % and shut down time has increased as well Ive also noticed that my pc wont hibernate since installing vista - it will always crash when trying to wake up. Programs generally run a lot ... more

Windows Vista Business Edition, is the best option to go for if you want everything but cant afford Ultimate. Be warned though, Vista does carry rather hefty recommended requirements if you want to run it with all its bells and whistles, however, I'm running it fine on a Pentium 3 1GHz, with 512MB RAM, 30GB HARD DRIVE and a 4MB AGP video card. Obviously I don't get the nice looks of the nice new Aero interface and it runs a tad slow, but it is still very much usable. Vista Business Edition does lack Windows Media Centre which is included in Home Premium and Ultimate, but it is afterall ... more