Windows 7 Pro

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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 to company networks effortlessly and more securely with Domain Join. With all the exciting entertainment features of Windows Home Premium, it's a great choice for home and for business. Windows 7 is the easiest, fastest, and most engaging version of Windows yet. Better ways to find and manage files, like Jump Lists and improved taskbar previews, help you speed through everyday tasks. Faster and more reliable performance means your PC just works the way you want it to. And great features like HomeGroup and Windows Touch make new things possible. Get to know Windows 7, and see how it can simplify just about everything you do with your PC.

Everything you need for work and home:

• Simplify your PC with new navigation features like Aero Shake, Jump Lists, and Snap.
• Customize Windows to look and feel the way you like by changing themes and taskbar programs.
• Easy to network (with or without a server).
• Back up your complete system over a network.
• Designed to make your PC sleep and resume quicker.
• Takes full advantage of 64-bit PC hardware and memory.
• Connecting to wireless networks is fast and easy.
• Windows XP Mode gives you the business flexibility you need.
• Watch, pause, rewind, and record TV with Windows Media Center.
• Watch your favorite DVD movies.
• Includes integrated video and Dolby audio codecs.

Windows 7 makes the basics easier than ever. With HomeGroup, it's simple to share music, documents, printers, and everything else with the other PCs running Windows 7 in your house. Better taskbar previews give you a great view of what's open, and Jump Lists show you recent files with a single right-click. It doesn't matter how many neat tricks your PC can do if it's not running as smoothly as you expect. So we designed Windows 7 to help your PC sleep and resume faster. The new Action Center puts control over system messages where it should be: with you.

Once you've got that simpler, faster PC, some cool new features would be great. Here you go: You'll be able to connect to networks-home, work, coffee shop-with a couple of clicks, and with Windows Touch (and the right hardware), you'll soon be using your fingers to flip through files, work with pictures, and even "paint."

Windows XP Mode.
Windows XP Mode is the combination of two features. The first part is a pre-packaged virtual Windows XP environment. The second is Windows Virtual PC, which is used to run the virtual Windows XP environment. Customers can install their applications into Windows XP Mode using typical installation processes such as downloading from the Web or using the product CD. Once installed, the applications are automatically available on the Windows 7 Start Menu and can be launched just like any Windows 7 program. Optionally, these Windows XP applications can be pinned to the Windows 7 Task Bar and launched using just a single click from the Windows 7 desktop. Windows XP Mode is best suited for older business and productivity applications such as accounting, inventory and similar applications. Windows XP Mode will be available to Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate customers via download.

DirectAccess
DirectAccess enables remote users to access the corporate network anytime they have an Internet connection, without the extra step of initiating a virtual private networking (VPN) connection. Find out how to use DirectAccess to provide a more secure and flexible corporate network infrastructure in which computers on and off the network can remain healthy, managed, and updated.

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Editor's Review

Windows 7 Professional is Microsoft's latest operating system release, and one that's generated a lot of praise for the company. A vast improvement over Windows Vista, Windows 7 Professional boasts a range of impressive user interface upgrades, a significantly improved search system, and performance that makes even the sluggish PC feel lightening fast. Designed from the ground up to address concerns and complaints from Windows Vista, Windows 7 Professional is a completely refreshed, optimized operating system.

The most visible change to Windows 7 is the new interface. Built as a streamlined version of Vista's user interface, Windows 7's new UI is significantly more user-friendly and convenient than before. 'Aero Peek' functions allow users to easily juggle multiple windows and applications without confusion, while modified and improved taskbar buttons increase productivity and make multitasking much more simple.

Alongside Aero Peek' Windows 7 has several other productive interface features on offer. 'Aero Shake', a convenient mouse gesture function, allows users to easily minimize excess windows by focusing on their current task and shaking it with the mouse. While slightly cumbersome for notebook users, Aero Shake is brilliant for single-tasking and direct focus, allowing users to easily isolate certain tasks and auto-minimize excess windows.

Microsoft's toolbar changes create a more user-friendly environment in Windows 7, with windows able to be arranged as large icons for quick accessibility. Mac users will feel significantly more comfortable on Windows 7, which offers a range of OS X-style taskbar productivity and task management features. Excess applications can easily be arranged in a pop-up menu, which is attached to the standard Windows taskbar for quick access and productivity.

On the performance side, Windows 7 features a range of improvements from Vista and XP. Application launces are smooth and simple, and the driver problems that affected early Vista users are almost entirely eradicated. Applications install quickly and easily, and despite the lack of Microsoft standard applications, the bundled Microsoft programs such as Media Center are significantly improved over their Windows Vista counterparts.

As an all-round operating system, Windows Vista offers some huge improvements over Vista. A definite recommendation for PC users, Windows 7 Professional is aimed at small businesses, enterprise users, and at-home professionals.

Microsoft Windows 7 Professional: What We Liked

UI is improved from Vista, and once 'tacked-on'; features now feel natural and user-friendly.

Performance is improved for high-end PC users.

Taskbar and window management tools are more intuitive and user-friendly.

Microsoft Windows 7 Professional: What We Didn't Like

Performance is poor on low-end PCs, and some small compatibility issues from Windows Vista remain.

Microsoft Support

Microsoft offer a wide range of online and offline support options. Windows 7 Professional includes a detailed product manual and user guide, while further documentation and support is available on Microsoft's website. Phone support is available for registration and licensing issues.

About Microsoft

A true giant of the software world, Microsoft are headquartered in Redmond, Washington and have been responsible for some of the PC world's most important and popular operating systems and applications. Founded in 1975, Microsoft employs over 90,000 people spread across over 100 countries.

Reviewed by Software.com

Windows 7 Professional is fast, secure, stable, visually appealing and fun

Advantages

Windows 7 Professional offers a fast startup and performance, is much more stable and has
improved networking, power management & security

Disavantages

Windows 7 Professional User Account Control is still annoying and is an expensive program.

4 stars
By Anonymous
On 24 Sep 2010

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