VISTA BUSINESS or HOME PREMIUM?

What is the main difference between vista business and home premium?
I might be buying a Dell M1210 and for $10 Australian extra i can get vista business rather than vista home premium and i was just wondering which would be better.

also, which would have less bloat ware?

anyones thoughts would be most appreciated lol

 

a quick reference:
http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/27/microsoft-gets-official-on-vista-versions/

cheers ...

 

No media centre in business.

 

Personally for home use, Vista Home Premium is better than Vista Business because Business lacks some of the features home users would like and vice versa Business has some features which companies or employers would like to have.

 

If you shell out the dinero for Ultimate you get everything from business and home in one

 

I have Vista Home Premium and it appears to omit secpol.msc, so there is no way to blank out the last logged on user like in XP. I presume Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate retain this capability.

 

I’d get Business. You can find a detailed feature comparison here.
Vista business is missing few multimedia applications but IMO they are not important at all. But it has several essential features over home premium like the ability to join a domain and Terminal server. In addition several security options and IIS are also found in business ed.

 

I will rather get Home Premium rather than Business. It has the cool media center which i missed during the beta testing programme.

For a detailed comparision, check out this page. http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winvista_02.asp

 

I'd say Home Premium. I got Vista Business for free from my college's engineering department (through the MSDNAA program), but I would have preferred Home Premium. Business has a bunch of extra stuff designed for networking computers together in an office-type environment, but I use my computer for regular home use (gaming, web browsing, word documents and whatnot), so all that extra stuff is pretty much worthless to me. With Home Premium, it might be fun to play around with Media Center or Windows Movie Maker, plus the support for Xbox360 Media Extender (even though I don't have an Xbox360...).

I'd say get Home Premium by default (plus, it's cheaper), unless Business has some specific feature that you need.

 

The most annoying thing on business is they dont have complete codec to play your DVD movies. MPEG-2 codec have to bought separately or you can use another player (free or paid) other than WMP.

 

Home Premium...unless you plant to use this machine in a domain enviroment. The only thing Home premuim lacks is encryption....or EFS....not that I have ever used it with XP

 

Dude, if you're getting a Dell, you're getting a crapload of bloatware either way.

I'd go with Vista Home for home use and Vista Business for business use. But that's just me.

 

As the above poster said, if you're using this in a business and office environment, especially in an office network, go with Business edition.

If you only plan to use it for home entertainment, get Home Premium. One thing to mention though - the various multimedia features of Vista Home can all be accessed from free 3rd party software that often does the same thing far better. It's not as convenient (you'd have to do some research, and all that), but you won't lose out on functionality.

 

I simply don’t understand why people are so obsessed with the insignificant media applications bundled with home premium. Windows Media Player is still there in Business. If you have missing codecs then all you need to do is install them. k-lite codec pack is a free codec installer that will install all the codecs you’ll ever need. Besides, players like Media Player Classic and VLC have features that Windows Media Player and Media Center users can only dream of. Only thing they are missing is a fancy bulky full screen GUI .

 

Media Center sounds nicer than Windows Media Player.

Having the codecs right in the OS is better than having to download and install it.

And Home Premium is cheaper than Business.

 

I dont care for media center myself, its worse on resources and feels too flashy, you have to go thru alot of loops rather than just hit file --> open --> play

Its somthing that would be well suited for microsofts new tech "surface" I tried the onine TV thing with it and it took FOREVER to load things and was slow even on my super fast ISP and system.


as for the whole thing in general any power user would use winamp for audio, and VCL or MPC for video, they are better than windows media player and use less resources.

Your one stop for all your codec and video/audio player needs:

http://www.cccp-project.net/

has EVERY codec you ever knew of and the ones you didnt know of (often used in anime and other riped content you find on the web) and includes the two main players that power users would use. They have much more options than WMP and are more friendly.

If you intrested in winamp and how to set it up to sound 5x better than WMP I can cook up links to that too, you can get 24bit quality at 192khz

 

If you get Ultimate you don't have to make the choice!

 

Regarding bloatware... bloatware is installed by the computer manufacturer, so which operating system you choose won't have any effect on it.

Matt

 

No you just have to live with yourself overpaying massivly for almost nothing....

 

Overpaying for Ultimate extras which still has nothing NEW after 5 months. *sigh*

 

The only reason I'd ever buy Ultimate is to get DreamScene... one of many features that was meant to be implemented into Longhorn but was dropped. They screwed up Vista (Longhorn) so badly...

Matt

 

But I got Ultimate when I purchased my system and it was the only OS offered. I chose to install Ultimate on my other 2 laptops.

 

I found the registry entry for this, so I did set it in Vista Home Premium to blank the last logged on user.