What version of Microsoft Windows 7 is right for my Computer?
by Edward November 16, 2010
There are three version of Microsoft Windows 7 for your computer and then there is one special version I will talk about last. As with previous versions of windows there are the three that we are somewhat familar with:
- Home Premium
- Professional
- Ultimate
All differ in price with Ultimate being the most expensive. The same holds true of Windows 7. For Microsoft Windows 7 there is:
- Home Premium
- Professional
- Ultimate
- Starter
Let's talk a look at Home Premium first.
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
- Main features are improved desktop navigation.
- Start programs faster.
- Find most used documents quicker.
- Safter web experience with Internet Explorer 8.
- Watch TV shows with Internet TV.
- Easily create a home network and connects PCs to each other and a printer.
Easier to use features:
Shake
Ever need to cut through a cluttered computer desktop ans quickly focus on a single window? Just click a pane and give your mouse a shake. Voila! Every open window except that one instantly disapers. Jiggle again and your windows are back. (Who says the old computer mouse can't learn a new trick?)
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/features/shake
Jump List
Jump Lists are new in Windows 7. Jump Lists take you right to the documents, pictures, songs or web sites you turn to each day. To open a Jump List, just right click a program icon on the Windows 7 taskbar. (You'll find them on the Start menu)
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/features/jump-lists
Snap
Snap is a quick (and fun) new way to resize open windows, simply by dragging them to the edges of your screen. Depending on where you drag a window, you can make it expand vertically, take up the entire screen, or appear side-by-side with another window. Snap makes reading, organizing and comparing windows a...well, you get the picture.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/features/snap
Entertainment
Watch, pause, rewind and record TV on your computer with Windows Media Center.
Watch your favorite DVD movies. Includes integrated video and Dolby audios.
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
- Run programs in XP Mode, full system backup and restore.
- 64-bit mode.
XP Mode
The new windows XP Mode lets you run older Windows XP business sotware right on your Windows 7 desktop.
Designed primarily with small and medium-sized businesss in mind, Windows XP Mode comes as a seperate download and works only with Windows 7 Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise. Windows XP Mode also requires virtualization sofftware such as Windows Virtual PC. Both are available free on the Microsoft web site.
To download Windows XP Mode or learn abouts is system requirements, visit the Windows Virtual PC web site.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/features/windows-xp-mode
64-Bit Mode
If you've gone PC computer shopping lately, you've probaly noticed more computers with 64-bit processors and you may have wondered what advantages they offer.
Put simply, a 64-bit PC computer can handle larger amounts of information than a 32-bit system. Since it can use more memory (RAM) 4 GB and up. A 64-bit computer can be more responsive when you've running lots of programs at once.
Whichever system you choose, Windows 7 is ready. All packaged retail editions of Windows 7 (except for Home Basic) includes both 32 and 64 bit software.
Wondering whether a program or devise works with your 64-bit PC computer? Look for products that carry the "Compatible with Windows 7" logo shich means they were tested on both 31 and 64 bit versions of Windows 7. Or visit the Windows 7 Compatibility Center to search a regularly updated list of programs and devices.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/features/64-bit-support
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Contains all the features of the previous versions of windows plus the following:
- Bitlocker that helps protect data and portable storage devices
BitLocker
How can you help protect your data from loss, theft or hackters? The answer: BitLocker.
Improved for Windows 7 and availabe in the Ultimate and Enterprise editions, BitLocker helps keep everything form documents to paswords safer by encrypting the entire drive that Windows and your data reside on. Once BitLocker is turned on and file you save on that drive is encrypted automatically.
BitLocker To Go is a new feature of Windows 7 that gives the lockdown treatment to easily misplaced portable storage devices like USB flash drives and external drives.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/features/bitlocker
Microsoft Windows 7 Starter
And finally there is the last version called Starter. Starter has features lik Jump Lists, Pin, Snap ans Search. also provisions for making connecting to a wireless network easy and fast. Starter also comes with Internet Explorer 8 for improved safty when browsing the internet.
Product comparisons for all Microsoft Window products:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/compare