Microsoft Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade
- Move up to Windows 7 Professional from Windows 7 Home Premium with Windows Anytime Upgrade
- Watch, pause, rewind, and record TV on your PC
- Easily create a home network and connect your PCs to a printer with HomeGroup
- Run many Windows XP productivity programs in Windows XP Mode
- Connect to company networks easily and more securely with Domain Join
Product Description
Windows 7 Professional includes all the Home Premium features you love and the business features your work demands. Connect to company networks easily and more securely and share files across the various PCs in your home. In addition, you can 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.Amazon.com Product Description
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Microsoft Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade
July 28th, 2010 at 11:34 am
I bought the first Windows 7 Premium and learned that you can’t open 2 windows at time. Then I purchased Windows 7 Pro thinking I could open 2 or more windows at a time, but you can’t. I’m not sure what Windows 7 level one has to purchase to be able to open more than 1 window at at time.
Rating: 1 / 5
July 28th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
I waited to buy a windows 7 laptop to avoid the hassles of upgrading a vista machine and all the baggage with reinstalling operating system, but try to find a laptop with windows 7 pro pre-installed??? They ain’t there! So now I needed to buy a $100 software to upgrade a new laptop that I just recieved after holding out for two months to get 7 home “premium”. It’s like microsoft stripped the features from the ultimate to force people to upgrade to pro when then dont pre-install on machines. Operating system is really good and way better than vista, that is the only reason I give it two stars. Otherwise I would have scored it lower.
Rating: 2 / 5
July 28th, 2010 at 5:05 pm
I’m very disappointed, because I bought this upgrade to run my XP applications, and I figured out AFTER my purchase that I would need hardware to run a virtual machine. Of course, I don’t have this and I think Microsoft should have warned for this need before selling this upgrade.
Microsoft Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade [Home Premium to Professional]
Rating: 1 / 5
July 28th, 2010 at 7:08 pm
I used to have two systems happily running XP Professional.
Now I have a laptop running VISTA that will not run many XP programs and a new 64bit desktop that came with a ‘free’ Windows 7 upgrade. Now I have pay for an upgrade the Desktop to Pro just to get back to the capabilities I started with and I still don’t have a good solution for the Vista laptop.
In my view Microsoft ought to at least have made all Vista and Windows 7 upgrades backward compatible with XP applications. All Vista users should be entitled to a free upgrade to Windows 7 Pro.
Office 2007 was another fiasco – far worse than 2003 or 2000.
Rating: 1 / 5
July 28th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
I recently purchased a new desktop with Vista 64 bit home premium (and a free upgrade to Win 7 home premium), and a new laptop with Win 7 64 bit home premium. I didn’t need the additional features included in either Win 7 Pro, or Ultimate….I thought. Turns out that Win 7 home premium isn’t eligible for the add-on pieces that are required to run Win XP Compatibility. What does that mean???? It means that many of the programs that I run on my older Win XP Pro desktop probably won’t run correctly under my version of Win 7. So…I only have 3 choices…..spend $180 ($90 per machine) to upgrade both to Win 7 Pro operating systems….or, spend many hundreds of dollars for newer versions of some business programs that currently meet all of my needs…..or possibly, just use both of my new PCs to surf the internet, and keep my older PC for all other tasks. Microsoft doesn’t even offer a “family pack” to do these upgrades. Thanks Microsoft for ripping us off again. BTW…If I could have purchased both of these new PCs configured with Win XP Pro, I would have done so. At least that system works with all of my existing hardware…the jury is still out as to how many of my existing external drives, burners, printers, etc., will even work under Win 7.
Rating: 1 / 5