There's a lot more to Vista than the few items you mentioned. I fail to see how Basic is all that limiting. I have the Home Premium edition but have never used the features that set it apart from Basic. I turned Aero off because I found it too distracting.
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail)
In other words, Vista Basic has none of the "features" that make Vista a newOS and is very limited in how you can use it.
