Why do you want to upgrade to Vista? If what you have is working well for you, why spend the money when you (like most of us)are on a budget? I have vista premium on my new laptop, and XP on my desktop. Vista has some cool gadgets, but I would ot spend the money for the upgrade unless there was a specific reason.
I currently have an older HP Pavilion 514n PC running Windows XP professional. That machine is networked through my router by cable to an iMac and wirelessly to two Windows laptops. Microsoft's evaluation software tells me the Pavilion can easily run Vista's ultimate edition. Unfortunately I'm on a retired persons limited budget. Vista home premium would cost me about $100 less to upgrade from my windows XP professional. But I have a couple of questions:
I will need Vista to allow me to operate my home network as least as easily as Windows XP does. For that I believe I will need Vista to include its Networking Center software. This comparison chart available at Microsoft's site http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/choose.mspx seems to indicate the Networking Center software is NOT included in the Vista home premium edition. But this link at Microsoft's site http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/homepremium/default.mspx seems to indicate the software IS included in the home premium edition. Which is it?
I understand another difference between the Vista ultimate edition and home premium edition is that the latter does NOT include support for a Web server. But I currently don't use the Windows XP Web server, IIS II. I instead use the Apache server. I assume I will be able to install and use the Apache server under Vista's home premium edition. Does anyone know anything which might conflict with this assumption?
Thank you in advance for your comments on these issues.

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