Microsoft Windows 7 Professional

January 18, 2010
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  • 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

Product Description
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 >>

Microsoft Windows 7 Professional

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7 Responses to “ Microsoft Windows 7 Professional ”

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  2. David Langendoen on January 18, 2010 at 1:55 am

    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.

  3. SiliconValleyEngineer on January 18, 2010 at 4:54 am

    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.

  4. K. benford on January 18, 2010 at 5:31 am

    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!

  5. E. Garcia on January 18, 2010 at 8:20 am

    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!

  6. Pedo on January 18, 2010 at 9:09 am

    In two days, I’ve experienced more system crashes than I should. 7 is very pretty, but it still performs like a beta software. I won’t go into full details here, but I wanted to list some of the problems I’ve had.

    1) My wireless connection cuts out periodically, but it doesn’t come back unless I unplug/replug the adapter. Normally, it’ll cut out here and there, but it usually comes back by itself. Now I have to replug it manually.

    2) When watching DivX movies from an external HD, the system’ll restart randomly. However, when I transfer the file to an internal HD first, no problems. Something tells me there’s a USB transfer problem with extended read.

    3) Lots of random system hangs where the software/internet explorer hickups.

    4) Currently, there are multiple “important” Windows updates daily. Sounds like Microsoft is discovering these problems very recently upon product launch. This still feels like a beta software.

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