Vista Business vs Home Premium?

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I've finally decided to take the plunge and upgrade to Vista from XP in the next few weeks.

The upgrade advisor application suggested Vista Business which surprised me a little as the system I will be installing to is fairly decent and has a dual core processor, 2GB memory and a reasonable graphics card (HD3850). I was expecting Home Premium to be the recommended version.

Could anyone tell me if there are any advantages of getting Vista Business over Home Premium (or the other way around) and if one version is more demanding on system requirements than the other?

Thanks for any replies :)
 
Cheers. I think I'm probably inclined to go for Home Premium as the better all round package if there are not significant differences in system requirements compared with Vista Business?
 
As long as you have dual core and 2gb of memory (which you do) I imagine any edition will run the same.
 
Could be worth doing that Brian. To be fair XP SP3 does everything I need to at the moment so I could hold on a while. Then again if I come across Vista Home Premium at a good price I might just be tempted to go for it.

Am I right in thinking that Vista will be supported by Microsoft until something like 2017? If thats the case then Vista is unlikely to become obsolete overnight when Windows 7 is released.
 
Unless you need to join the computer to a domain, get Home Premium.

Personally at this point in time, as others have suggested, I would wait for Windows 7 which basically comes in Home and Pro flavours.

Vista Business doesn't come with any of the Media Center goodies, whereas Windows 7 Pro comes with all the entertainment bits PLUS the enterprise functionality. It was a bit stingy of them to take them out of Vista Business but I suppose you could argue it was bloat.
 
Spooter said:
Install vista from friends CD and run as trial mode for 120days* and buy Windows 7 when its out. If you do buy now get Home Premium. Pointless getting Vista Business unless you want to join a domain or use group policy?????!!

*http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/extend-windows-vista-trial-to-120-days/
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Before the forum's MS EULA enforcers jump all over you, I should point out that there is no "trial" mode as such, it's just a grace period before you have to activate.

Incidentally, the rumour mill suggests that Windows 7 RC1 will be out on April 10th, and if it has the same expiry date as build 7057, you could use it until March 2nd 2010 (by which time the full release should have been on the shelves for some time). Just another thought. :)
 
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