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_{Windows Vista Business Upgrade 32-bit is the definitive choice available to students and their families (home use only) that enables them to learn new computer skills appropriate to best business practises.}


STUDENTS: Be prepared for workplace computing

<sub>Windows Vista Business is the first Windows operating system designed specifically to meet the needs of small businesses. As a user, learn to work more efficiently with a stunning and improved, simple-to-use interface that makes it easier to search and find the information you need quickly and easily, both on your PCs and on the web.

With powerful new safety features, you're in control and can better protect the key information that is the life of your career.</sub>


Enjoy easier connectivity than ever before!

<sub>And, for the future young professional who will always be on the go, the mobile computing enhancements make it easier to stay connected to your career, both in and out of the library or office.

Windows Vista Business makes all of this work for you while helping you spend less time on technology support-related issues—so you can spend more time making your career successful.

Windows Vista Business simply makes it easier to manage networking and to ensure you get more out of your PC, both in and out of the library or office. Be future-ready and lay the IT foundation that your career needs for today and tomorrow.</sub>

	More efficient for your career Get more power, mobility, and increased security.			Get more done Get more from your PC and the web. Find things faster and make them look great.
	Easier It's faster and easier than ever to find, use and share information.			Safer Relax, your PC's security and health is automatically maintained.
	Better connected Connect and share with your friends and family on the go.

Features & Screenshots

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Windows Vista Business Information

_{Microsoft Windows Vista Business helps to give students an insight into how OS software can have a huge impact on day-to-day computing issues in the workplace.}

_{For any household with more than one computer or internet capable device (desktops, laptops, xbox, etc), Vista Business ensures that setting up and running your own local network is incredibly easy and simple to do.}

<sub>Designed to keep your network running smoothly and securely without excessive reliance on IT support, Vista Business is the primary edition of Windows Vista for business desktop and mobile PCs. Ideal for organizations of all sizes, this software provides dramatic new infrastructure improvements, enabling users to spend more time doing what they want and less time troubleshooting glitches.

Vista Business also offers powerful new ways to organize, find, and share information, while helping people stay better connected in the library, home office and on the road.</sub>

_{Easier, Faster Access to Information
Vista Business features Windows Aero, a new interface that delivers higher levels of efficiency for any business user. This easy-to-use interface makes it a snap to navigate through the operating system and from application to application. Most importantly, Windows Aero helps you juggle multiple tasks at once by providing a three-dimensional, real-time, animated view of all your open applications and documents.}

_{In addition to these navigation improvements, Vista Business makes it easier than ever to manage huge volumes of business documents. By integrating search throughout the operating system and providing new ways to organize files, this software helps you quickly find exactly what you are looking for.}

_{Collaborate and Communicate More Effectively
Vista Business helps your work teams collaborate and communicate more effectively, regardless of their location. By helping users find and use information quickly and easily, this software can dramatically improve how people in your organization access and apply essential knowledge and resources on PCs, in e-mail, from corporate servers, and on the Internet.}

_{Improved Security and Compliance
Protecting your business information and complying with regulations places increased demands on your IT staff. Vista Business' more sophisticated data protection and auditing capabilities help simplify IT management and can help lower costs for regulatory compliance. In addition, with features like the Encryption File system, Windows Vista helps organizations manage security risks by protecting information and services in a more controllable and secure environment.}

_{Safe Operation
For businesses of any size, Vista Business makes it possible for your IT department to configure users' systems so that they can log onto their PCs as standard users instead of as administrators. This helps minimize compatibility and usability issues that might have occurred in previous versions of Windows, while also making those issues easier to resolve. Moreover, this new capability significantly reduces the likelihood of a malicious attack causing damage to your organization's PCs.}

_{Keep Your Network Running Smoothly
For small businesses, Vista Business includes new technology and tools to ensure your PCs are always up-to-date, more secure, and running smoothly. For instance, this software helps make your PCs safer with built-in protection against malicious software, or malware. And because Vista Business warns you of impending hardware failures early on, you don't have to worry about the devastating loss of any important business data. No matter what potential problems arise, an array of sophisticated new backup technologies helps protect your information even in the event of a catastrophic hardware failure. When it comes to management, features like Domain Join and Group Policy support improve the efficiency of your workgroups.}

_{Small Business Resources
And for those who are not full-time IT professionals but have roles that require them to support their organizations' PCs, Vista Business includes Small Business Resources. This built-in how-to guide leads you through everyday tasks and troubleshooting in easy-to-follow, non-technical language. By giving you the ability to solve problems as they arise, you can help keep your business efficient. Vista Business also provides business specific features like fax and scan that increase productivity.}

_{Image-Based Installation
For larger organizations, Vista Business has been designed from the ground up to improve the deployment and management of the central operating system. For instance, image-based installation is now the default method for installing the Windows Vista operating system, and the images are no longer hardware-dependent. These two key design principles enable your organization to dramatically reduce the number of images you are required to manage and streamline the process of deploying new PCs and updating existing PCs. The end result is faster, easier operation than ever before, which helps improve the overall productivity of your project.}

System Requirement Details

To use Microsoft Vista Business Upgrade, you need:

• 1 GHz 32-bit (x86)  processor
• 1 GB of system memory
• 40 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
• Support for DirectX 9 graphics with:
  • WDDM Driver
  • 128 MB of graphics memory (minimum)
  • Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware

  • 32 bits per pixel

• Support for DirectX 9 graphics with:
• Audio Output
• Internet access (fees may apply)

Additional items or services required to use certain features:

• TV tuner card required for TV functionality (compatible remote control optional)

• Windows Tablet and Touch Technology requires a Tablet PC or a touch screen

• Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption requires a USB Flash Drive and a system with a TPM 1.2 chip

PLEASE NOTE:

1. This product is not suitable for Vista Home Premium users who wish to add Business features, please upgrade to Vista Ultimate instead.

2. We strongly recommend customers check the health of their hard disk BEFORE installing any upgrade. Software4Students are not responsible for any system crashes or HDD failures during install on faulty hardware.

Actual requirements and product functionality may vary based on your system configuration.

Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor can help you determine which features and edition of
Windows Vista will run on your computer.

Visit Microsoft.com for more details.

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