Microsoft Windows Vista Anytime Upgrade From Home Basic to Home Premium

Windows Vista Home Basic to Home Premium is simply the best system for giving you everything you need to enjoy home entertainment, with easy ways to manage your photos, videos, music, and even TV and movies. And all within a brilliant new interface that makes it fun to use.

With Windows Vista Home Premium, you'll enjoy an elegant user interface, advanced entertainment capabilities, convenient mobility, and valuable data protection at home and on the go. Simply put, Windows Vista Home Premium improves everything you do -- sending email, communicating with friends, managing digital memories, watching TV & movies, gaming and enjoying music. It's simply more engaging, more social, and more capable! And with Windows Anytime Upgrade Pack, you have everything that you need to start enjoy everything Windows Vista Home Premium has to offer.

MICROSOFT WINDOWS ANYTIME UPGRADE:

With Windows Anytime Upgrade (WAU), Microsoft has built a simple and convenient way for customers to upgrade from a lower edition of Windows Vista to a higher one, when they discover they want or need more out of their current operating system.

With the introduction of the WAU model for upgrades, customers can now upgrade to a higher edition of Windows Vista without losing any data or functionality. With the good, better, best concept of Windows Vista, upgrading simply means adding more functionality to what was available in the lower edition.

• Breakthrough Windows Vista Experience - Designed to help you feel confident in your ability to view, find, and organize information and to control your computing experience, all editions of Windows Vista introduce a breakthrough user experience. The visual sophistication of Windows Vista helps streamline your computing experience by refining common window elements so you can better focus on the content on the screen rather than on how to access it. The desktop experience is more informative, intuitive, and helpful. And new tools bring better clarity to the information on your computer, so you can see what your files contain without opening them, find applications and files instantly, navigate efficiently among open windows, and use wizards and dialog boxes more confidently.
• Innovative User Interface - Vista Home Premium has a new user interface named Windows Aero, which is both efficient and visually stunning. This new interface makes it easier than ever before to find your way around the operating system; it even makes it a snap to accomplish multiple tasks at once by providing a three-dimensional, real-time, animated view of all of your open applications and documents. Additionally, Vista Home Premium helps you quickly find and organize large collections of documents, pictures, movies, videos, and music. By integrating search throughout the operating system, this software helps you quickly find exactly what you are looking for.
• Improved Mobility - Vista Home Premium makes it easy to take your home computing experience with you wherever you go. For example, the system includes Windows Tablet and Touch Technology that enables you to interact with your Tablet PC-compatible computer with a digital pen or your fingertip instead of having to use a keyboard. Computers that include Vista Home Premium and an auxiliary Windows SideShow display will also allow you to access key data even when your computer is off. You'll even be able to share files between other PCs in your household and to manage your laptop computer settings to more securely connect to your favorite Wi-Fi hotspot.
• More Entertainment Options - Vista Home Premium has the power to improve every aspect of your digital entertainment experiences, including viewing and sharing photos, video, TV, movies, music, games, and more. For example, you can create your own DVDs and edit your own high-definition movies. The most exciting news, however, is that Vista Home Premium includes all of the Windows Media Center capabilities for turning your PC into an all-in-one home entertainment center so you can enjoy your music, photos, and DVD movies. You can also use Windows Media Center to record and watch your favorite TV shows (even HDTV) and to access new kinds of online entertainment content. You will also be able to connect Windows Vista Home Premium to your Microsoft Xbox 360 to extend your Media Center experience to multiple rooms in your home.

Microsoft Windows Vista: Compare Editions

• 1-gigahertz (GHz) 32-bit (x86) processor or 1-GHz 64-bit (x64) processor
• 1 GB RAM
• 40-GB hard disk that has 15 GB of free hard disk space
• Internal or external DVD drive
• A Windows Aero-capable graphics card : Supports a Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) driver, Has a DirectX 9-class graphics processor unit (GPU) that supports Pixel Shader 2.0, Supports 32 bits per pixel, Passes the Windows Aero acceptance test in the Windows Driver Kit (WDK)
• DVD-ROM drive
• Internet Access Capability
• Audio Output Capability

Windows -- Minimum supported requirements
Certain product features are not available with minimum supported requirements.

• 800 MHz processor and 512 MB of system memory
• 20 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
• Support for Super VGA graphics
• CD-ROM drive
• SVGA (800x600) graphics card and display

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