Windows Vista Home Premium Service Pack 1 is the perfect OS for private users and for a home desktop / notebook PC.
Vista comes with completely new user experience, 3D animated interface and some major security enhancements.
The new interface is stunning and delivers a whole new user experience: translucent menus, smooth window transitions, shadows, reflections and all that in 3D format.
Search your PC for emails, documents, videos, music and other content via one central search console.
Windows Vista Home Premium SP 1 supports more devices and software ensuring a higher degree of reliability and compatibility. The Service Pack 1 includes some stability issues fixes too. While some of the previous versions of Vista rendered crashes upon various system operations, this SP 1 addresses all known stability issues. Windows Vista Home Premium Service Pack 1 also includes support a selection of technology standards that was not present in the previous version of Vista.
Included is Windows Internet Explorer 7 that contains enhanced phishing filters and some major security flaw fixes. Use built-in parental control tools to set content access rights to your children.
Vista is designed with more fun in mind. The Premium SP 1 edition comes with Windows Media Center lets you connect to Xbox 360 via wireless to exchange files, manage and view videos, DVDs, music, photos and images. You can also author DVDs and burn CDs with the builtin Windows DVD Maker without the need of buying any third-party product.
Manage your pictures with Windows Photo Gallery by adding meta information, tags, creation date and time, star rating and more information to easily group, catalog and find your media files.
Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 is well suited for those on the go. Synchronize your files and emails, manage power saving options of your laptop, connect to wireless access points with ease, draw and type on your tablet PC without mouse or keyboard.
When it comes to security, Vista is allegedly less prone to virus attacks by 60% compared to Windows XP with Service Pack 2 due to a completely new OS design. The anti-phishing filter that is included in IE7 protects from forged, fake websites designed to steal your passwords and credit card number. Vista includes the Windows Defender facility that automatically scans for threats any incoming file.
Creating backups on Vista is effortless. You can create archives to be stored on removable media, local disks or network disks using the Scheduled and Network Backup facility that is built in.
Vista boots significantly faster than Windows XP on the same system configuration. The handy sleep, resume and hibernation features are also included.
Vista features interactive desktop gadgets showing live information right on your desktop such as latest news, stock market updates, weather information and more.