Vista choice - Home Premium or Ultimate?

So vista’s been out and about for a couple of days and its time for me to make a decision about my Vista installation. The awful Home Basic is completely out of the question. Similarly Business and Enterprise are unneccesary and unavailable to me. So that leaves Home Premium and Ultimate.

From what I’ve read, choosing Home Premium over Ultimate will cause me to lose out on the following features:

Windows Domain logon
Windows Fax and Scan
BitLocker Encryption
Ultimate Extras (hmmm)

Is it really worth the cash for the Ultimate version? Help me out! Please!

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Published:: 02.01.07 / 3pm

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edward khang 06.14.07 / 4pm

it is absolutely not worth at all to buy ultimate.the price is much higher and the reason is only for the name.well ,im using home premium.pretty good……
timkeller 06.14.07 / 10pm

Thanks for the comment! I ended up getting Ultimate because I had an OEM offer. I’m enjoying it… but would never pay the Retail price for it!

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Tim is the lead Systems Engineer at Umoya Networks in Westlake, Cape Town. He is also the CEO of OneWebStudios, a small Web Application development house which is actively working on the ChirpSchool suite of school-management applications.

He holds a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science & Psychology from the University of Cape Town, and is busy studying towards his Cisco Certified Network Associate qualification.

He speaks English, PHP, Java, Python, C++ and Objective-C quite fluently. His system of choice is Mac OS X, but tolerates both Linux and Windows when the need arises. He’s also worked as a Web Designer and Photographer over the years

Most importantly, he has a beautiful girlfriend FIANCÉ named Amy who he is completely in love with, and will be marrying on 19 December 2009!

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