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upgrading Vista home basic
we have Home Basic is it worth investing in an upgrade to Premium or Ultimate, or would we better of waiting till windows 7 is fully up & running?
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If you dont know exactly what you hope to gain by upgrading, and just feel it would be a good thing to do, then dont bother.
Home Basic lacks the Media Centre, and I dont think it can work with an XBox, and there are a few other things, but probably nothing you could not gain by downloading a free utility from the web.
While I always say to people go for Home Premium over Home Basic on a new PC, I dont think it is worth the cost to upgrade, and for a home user I dont think it is worth upgrading to Ultimate anyway.
Here is a compariosn list that Microsoft put together
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista /compare-editions/default.aspx
If you dont know exactly what you hope to gain by upgrading, and just feel it would be a good thing to do, then dont bother.
Home Basic lacks the Media Centre, and I dont think it can work with an XBox, and there are a few other things, but probably nothing you could not gain by downloading a free utility from the web.
While I always say to people go for Home Premium over Home Basic on a new PC, I dont think it is worth the cost to upgrade, and for a home user I dont think it is worth upgrading to Ultimate anyway.
Here is a compariosn list that Microsoft put together
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista /compare-editions/default.aspx