- Windows 7 Professional (includes 32 & 64-bit versions) lets you run Windows XP productivity programs in Windows XP Mode, recover data easily with automatic backups to your home or business network, connect to company networks effortlessly and more securely
- Make the things you do every day easier with improved desktop navigation; start programs faster and more easily, and quickly find the documents you use most often
- Make your web experience faster, easier and safer than ever with Internet Explorer 8
- Watch, pause, rewind, and record TV on your PC
- Easily create a home network and connect your PCs to a printer with HomeGroup
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With Microsoft Windows Pro 7 Operating System Software Professional, you’ll be able to run many Windows XP productivity programs in Windows XP mode* and recover your data easily with automatic back-ups to your home or business network. You’ll be able to connect to company networks easily and more securely with Domain Join. And with entertainment features like Windows Media Center, it’s great for home as well as for business.Amazon.com Product Description
With Windows 7 Professional, fewer walls stand between you and your success. You can run many Windows XP productivity programs in Windows XP Mode and recover data easily with automatic backups to your home or business network. You can also connect t… More >>
The low rating is not a reflection of the quality of the installed experience; rather a rant about the lack of ability to install.
Specifically the Professional version, which seemed to best match my feature needs will not upgrade Vista Home or Premium editions…ONLY Vista Business. I found documentation to this point buried on Microsoft’s website only after buying and trying to install (and failing…well, I COULD have chosen to wipe my drive and do a full install and then re-install all my applications…no thanks!)
The frontline marketing and promotion of this upgrade manages to neglect this key point. Anyway, Amazon is accepting the return and I’m ordering Ultimate…but just a word of caution to those who might go down a similar path.
We should all boycott Microsoft products because Microsoft lays off American engineers and replace them with foreign H1Bs who are cheaper and willingly enslave themselves to the corporation in order to stay in the U.S. That makes the working conditions more difficult for American as well. The H1B program has also discouraged a new generation of American students from studying science and technology because they don’t want to graduate with a large educational debt and no job prospect.
I was waiting since June 23, 2009 for this new OS. Checked upgrade advisor every week for any problems. Only problem was my printer needed a new driver. HA! I got my Windows 7 yesterday and immediately went to installing it. SURPRISE – the Intel (R) 82801ER SATA RAID Controller Driver would not be recognized by the Windows 7. Spent 8 hours yesterday and another 5 hours today trying to install (clean) and find a solution, nothing. Called Microsoft and 40 minutes later they said it was Dell’s problem. Well, I’m stuck with Windows XP………. Maybe MAC? Really dissapointed!
I believed the hype from Microsoft that Windows 7 was ‘better’ or ‘fixed’, ‘more stable’ … whatever, so I bought it. First it is sooooo different from XP that it is difficult to navigate. I had to search the internet for instructions to do the simplest of tasks.
I’ve been running 7 for about 3 or 4 months. I get a blue screen of death about every week or two. The most recent example was yesterday morning. I started to upload a youtube video, went away to have breakfast and came back to a blue screen of death. It’s not like I was doing anything complicated, just one IE window open and one upload happening. I’m so disappointed.
Speaking of Internet Explorer, it crashes more than in XP. It just stops working, dims, shows that it’s thinking and won’t let you do anything for minutes. A company that can not even get a web browser to work right has no business selling an operating system. It’s time to upgrade to Firefox.
XP is pretty good. I use that at work everyday. I bought a laptop with Vista. That sucked soooooo bad that I ditched Vista completely and installed Ubuntu. I’ve had no problems with Ubuntu. I’m going to upgrade to Ubuntu on my desktop(the one with Windows 7 on it now). I will also never be purchasing another Microsoft product, hardware or software. I can’t financially support a company that charges for such crappy products.
Ubuntu and Firefox are where it’s at.
I really looked forward to Win 7 after all the positive reviews. Here is my experience so far. The startup and overall performance of my computer, with 4Gb of RAM, a 1.83 GHz Intel core duo CPU and a 64-bit version of Win 7. While working on a Word and Excel doc, the computer spontaneously rebooted after installing new updates (without warning me it was about to reboot, or informing me it was installing updates, it just did it in the background so I had no idea it was doing so). After rebooting and restoring the Word and Excel session I was working on, I discovered, to my horror and frustration, the hyperlinks I had on my Excel doc, links to files on my external hard drive, had been edited to link to non-existing locations on my C: drive. How did this happen?? I spent hours having to re-edit the links on those cells to point to a folder on my external HD.
Unbelievable!
Also, my Gateway laptop trackpad seems incompatible with Win 7. When I move my finger across the trackpad the scrollbar scrolls down spontaneously, uncontrollably. I had to buy an external wireless mouse to deal with this, although honestly this may be a Gateway issue that they need to address. I’ve tried updating the trackpad/mouse driver from Device Manager, but I get a message saying I have the latest driver installed. Hopefully Gateway issues a fix, this is a VERY ANNOYING BUG!