Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Upgrade
| Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Upgrade |
Upgrade to Windows 7All editions of Windows XP and Windows Vista qualify you to buy an upgrade license.1. Choose your edition of Windows 7 Explore key features and choose the edition that's best for you. Be sure to check the expanded list of extended features in Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, and Windows 7 Ultimate. System requirements vary for each edition of Windows 7 because some features might require special hardware. 2. See if your PC has what it takes to run Windows 7 In general, if your PC can run Windows Vista it can run Windows 7. To make sure, download and run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor to do a quick check. If you want certain features, such as HomeGroup or Windows Media Center, check to see if your PC has the hardware that's needed. 3. Check which operating system your PC is currently running How you make the move to Windows 7 depends on your current operating system.
Everything you need for work and homeEasiest Windows to use ever
Faster and more flexible
Best PC entertainment experience
Simplifies Everyday TasksSimple to usePreview Manage lots of open programs, documents, and browser windows easily with thumbnail and full-screen previews of open windows. Pin Open files and get around your PC faster with the improved taskbar. You can easily pin programs you use often to the taskbar and launch them in just one click.
Jump Lists Open files you use regularly in just two clicks with Jump Lists on the improved taskbar. Snap Windows 7 has simple new ways to manage open windows. For example, with Snap you can arrange two windows side-by-side just by dragging them to opposite sides of your screen. Peek and Shake Windows 7 lets you peek behind open windows to get a quick look at your desktop. Windows Search Instantly locate and open virtually any file on your PC, from documents to emails to songs, right from the Start menu, with Windows Search. Easy to connect
Wireless setup With Windows 7, setting up wireless connections is easier with consistent, one-click connections to available networks, whether those networks are based on Wi-Fi, mobile broadband, dial-up, or corporate VPN. HomeGroup Connect Windows 7 PCs on a home network in just four clicks and easily get to the photos, music, and files on each one--even share printers--with HomeGroup. Easy to browse the webInternet Explorer 8 Visual search helps you quickly find the information you want by adding visual cues and previews to search results from top search providers including Live Search, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Amazon, and others. Internet Explorer 8 Use Web slices to conveniently keep up with changes on frequently updated websites, like eBay auctions or traffic sites, directly from the IE8 toolbar. Easy to communicate and shareWindows Live Photo Gallery Windows Live Photo Gallery makes share your photos to your favorite photo site easy. Windows Live Mail Windows Live Mail makes managing multiple email accounts easy. Windows Live Family Safety Keep your child safe by managing what sites they can visit and who they can send/receive emails and im communications from. Note: Windows Live components need to be downloaded separately. Works The Way You WantFaster and More ReliableResume from sleep We designed Windows 7 to help PCs sleep and resume from sleep more quickly by improving the way Windows 7 manages drivers, programs, and power. Faster and more reliable We reduced the amount of memory your PC needs for open windows and to execute commands to help it be more responsive to commands. Fewer clicks and less interruptions Makes New Things PossibleMedia on your termsWindows Media Center Turn your PC into a TV with Windows Media Center. Windows Media Center Watch shows for free when and where you want with Internet TV. DirectX 11 DirectX 11 technology delivers breathtaking game graphics so real, it's unreal. New ways to engageWindows Touch Windows Touch makes PCs with touch screens easier and more intuitive to use. Media on your termsWindows Media Player More and more consumer electronics, from TVs to digital photo frames, can be connected to home networks. With Play To in Windows 7, you'll be able to easily send music, photos, videos from your PC to a networked device throughout your home. You can enjoy the photos, music, and videos on your home PC when you're away from home with remote media streaming. Work anywhereLocation Aware Printing Windows 7 will automatically pick the right printer for you when you move from home to work networks. Work anywhere with less effort.
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 Rating:  - Not ready for prime timeI have a reasonably peppy 18-month-old Dell OptiPlex that has, with a few hiccups, been satisfactorily running Windows XP. Yet I was lured by the reviewers who have heaped praise on Microsoft's new release. And I thought it would solve some of the annoyances in my XP set up, like the propensity of my speech recognition software (Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10) to crash at odd moments. So, I bought a Windows 7 Professional (64-bit) upgrade, backed up my data and took the plunge. At first, things went swimmingly. The Windows Easy Transfer tool worked as advertised moving all my data files and settings. I found drivers for all of my peripherals and then I started reinstalling all my programs. (One big mistake: I did not make a "system image" when I had Windows 7 up and running with all the new drivers installed. You'll see why in a moment.) I was delighted that I could use Dragon without a system crash. So far so good. Then, somewhere in the process of installing my other programs, things started going haywire. First, the "sleep" function stopped working. My system wouldn't "wake up" and I had to manually turn it off and on again. I tried going back to a restore point, but the restore procedure failed, and it wiped out all of my other restore points. Since I had not made a system image earlier, I was out of luck. Things quickly went from bad to worse. Programs started freezing and the trusty old control-alt-delete would not terminate them. When I tried to reboot, the system got stuck on a black screen and would not go forward. In short... I went through many hours of computer hell. Finally, I gave up and went back to XP. Fortunately, I had made a disk image backup of my old system with Acronis True Image 2009, and within an hour I was back to my old, not so trusty XP system. So what are the morals? 1. Make sure to make a disk image of your current system with a product like Acronis so you can go back to xp if you have to. (Note, on my system Acronis True Image 2009 worked fine, but the 2010 version crashed my xp system, and seemed to make my W7 problems worse.) 2. Once your W7 system is up and running, use the system backup software to make a disk image, so you don't have to rely on the flaky restore point system. 3. Make more system images along the way, so you can roll it back if installing your software breaks something. My next computer will be a Mac. Rating: - DO NOT UPGRADEI bought both Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional pre-release. Disregard all of the hype of the last 6 months - Windows 7 is NOT worth the cost, the time, the risks, or the hassles of upgrading. My most reliable computer is still my Windows XP. In addition - if you have the Vista Home Premium - you can NOT use the Windows 7 Professional upgrade. With Windows 7 you get slight improvements on the task bar and interface - however - you risk losing your data, having to do a complete reinstall of ALL of your programs, and then - when you finally have it installed - many of your programs will crash with Windows 7. DO NOT UPGRADE - if you have a working system. The improvements are very marginal. Rating: - Disastrous!I bought the computer for which this was destined three years ago. I'd intended to upgrade that machine to Vista, so I added a nice video card. Then Vista was released, and it proved to be disastrous. I passed. In the mean time, I doubled the RAM in my computer, and I watched when MS released the beta of Windows 7 as tech writers hailed the new OS as a huge improvement. With this in mind, I decided to take advantage of an offer to purchase the Windows 7 Pro upgrade for $100. After a few days, I finally got around to installing the 32-bit version of Windows 7 on my computer. What a mistake! First, I had difficulties locating drivers for components made by well-known manufacturers: ever heard of Linksys? Belkin? Some of these I never found. Then, in the first week, I was getting the blue screen of death (BSOD) more than a half-dozen times per day, often in the middle of the night when no one was working on the computer. So much for stability! The BSOD issue prompted me to install the 64-bit version. In this case as well, I have been unable to find drivers (including for network cards). Now, contrast my Windows 7 experience with my Ubuntu 9.10 experience. I installed 64-bit Ubuntu. All the drivers were available, and the operating system is fast and stable. It's also free and easy to use, looks great, and includes tons of terrific free applications (including OpenOffice, the first office suite to give MS Office a run for its money). I only have a few reasons to run Windows: I'm a software developer, and some of the applications I develop use technologies targeted at Windows. I also have other software (e.g., Quicken and the music notation program Sibelius) for which Linux versions aren't available. My solution will be to run Windows in a virtual machine. Otherwise, I'm going to stick with Ubuntu for the rest of my computing needs. My recommendation: download Ubuntu and, if you're still a bit nervous about a new operating system, pick up a book like this: Beginning Ubuntu Linux, Fourth Edition. As for Windows? Don't even go there. Rating:  - To the People who don't understand the upgrade path from MicrosoftThe upgrade works fine if you follow the upgrade path that Microsoft has taken the time to outline and document. [...] If you are trying to upgrade a "home" version of Vista to Win 7 Professional it's not going to work the way you expect, you have to get the "ultimate" upgrade and then it will work, without having to re-install your applications. I'm very pleased with Windows 7 and it appears to be a good, logical next step in Microsoft's evolution of operating systems. I have experience over the past 25 years with Windows, Mac OS, Linux, DOS, so on so forth and think this is a solid entry into the market. Anyways, I hope this post helps clear some of the confusion I'm seeing in these reviews. Rating: - GARBAGE!HELLO, why can't you make the taskbar show behind windows? Why is there no quick launch, why was MSPaint turned into a confusing cluttered mess? Why is that annoying user account control garbage still there to annoy the hell out of everyone whenever they want to install a program? Why the hell is the network manager so stupid: you're forced to view it in the corn of ur screen when trying to access it, and forced to watch it try to connect to a single connection instead of being allowed to try and switch it on the fly. I CAN'T BELIEVE VISTA IS BETTER THAN THIS THING. IT'S INSANE! The only noticeable improvement is the SDHC scanning speed and auto-finding of drivers for your laptop/PC, but Vista can do that too. Well I'm not going to use Linux, it's nerdware, and will probably go back to Vista, ironically. I don't, like most other people, how a company that is worth and makes billions, can't come out with an OS, and GUI, after getting tons of complaints about Vista, that doesn't anger the majority. If we want to be angry we can all just go to Linux, ok Microsoft? At least linux, apple and microsoft aren't the only alternative os', I'll keep searching for something better that isn't stuck the way it is because of companies that are paranoid about showing their source to anyone. 
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