Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic with Service Pack 1, save 7%

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic with Service Pack 1 (SP1) (Upgrade Version)
Description
Windows Vista Home Basic is the edition of Windows for basic home computing needs. If you only want to use your PC for tasks like browsing the Internet, using e-mail, or viewing photos, then Windows Vista Home Basic may be the right edition for you. While it won't provide as many benefits as Windows Vista Home Premium, it will help you use your PC more easily and more safely than you could with Windows XP.

The first thing you'll notice about Windows Vista Home Basic is how easy it is to find the programs and files you're looking for. The instant desktop search feature looks across all of your documents, e-mails, photos, and other files, organising the results in the way that you want to view them. When coupled with the built-in web search of Windows Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista, you'll spend less time looking for the things that you need and more time on the activities that you care about.

Simply put, Windows Vista Home Basic provides you with just the essentials you need for home computing.

Service Pack 1
With its innovative safety and mobility features, advanced digital entertainment capabilities, and improved reliability, Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 makes using PCs safer, more entertaining, more reliable, and more rewarding than ever. Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 and improvements delivered by our hardware and software partners increase the reliability, performance, and compatibility of Windows Vista-based PCs.

Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 includes improvements that target some of the most common causes of identified system failures, giving users a more consistent Windows Vista experience. Service Pack 1 continues to improve Windows Vista security. It includes previously released updates for security bulletins that affect Windows Vista. It also improves security across many features, such as BitLocker, the Remote Desktop Connection client and smart cards.

Service Pack 1 further improves Windows Vista performance in response to customer feedback. Improvements include file-copy performance, networking performance, power transition, battery life and more!
Specifications 
Minimum Requirements
Recommended system requirements:
1GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) Processor
512MB RAM
20GB HDD Space with at least 15GB of available space
32MB Graphics Card (DirectX 9 compatible)
Sound Card
DVD-ROM Drive
Internet access
Features:
With dynamic security protection, Internet Explorer 7 helps you achieve a higher level of security protection than ever before when browsing the web
The anti-phishing technology in Internet Explorer 7 helps protect you from fraudulent websites that attempt to steal your personal information
Unique to Windows Vista is Internet Explorer protected mode, which makes browsing the web even safer by helping prevent unwanted malicious software downloads
With parental controls, you can manage the rules for your children's computer use. You can set time limits for use, and also manage their access to the web and to PC games
Using windows user accoutn control, you can confidently allow your children to use your PC, and lessen the risk that they will install malicious software or make harmful changes to the PC
Use basic backup features to safeguard your files-priceless digital photos, music, movies, documents, and more
Service Pack 1 additions:
To support current hardware innovations and anticipate future innovations, Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 does the following:
Support for Direct3D 10.1
Support to enable second generation Windows Media Center Extenders
Support for exFAT, a new file system for flash-based devices
And more
As with hardware innovations, the industry defines new, innovative standards and technologies between Windows releases. To take advantage of these innovations, Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 does the following:
Support for 802.11n wireless networking
Support for new strong cryptographic algorithms
Support for Secure Socket Tunnel Protocol (SSTP)
And more
This information is based on specifications supplied by manufacturers and should be used for guidance only.