Do you need more than Windows 7 Home Premium?

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:03 AM EDT

Article Source: blogs.zdnet.com

technology, apple, microsoft, windows, osx, operating-system, windows-7

One of the most frequent questions I get these days comes from people who've been running the Windows 7 beta and RC and are planning to upgrade to the final version when it's available on October 22. "Which edition of Windows 7 do I need?"

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jedipunk

This appears to be a pretty good breakdown of features and I like how it include OSX in there for feature comparison. My dad is always saying, "Mac does this. Mac does that." and he has never even owned one.

Regardless, this article is just in time for the pre-orders of windows 7.

I currently use vista home premium on 2 pcs and 1 laptop. One of the PCs is hooked to the tv and works great. The other is my personal and test machine. The laptop is the wife's and is a little flaky sometimes.

I plan on upgrading the 2 PCs.

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#1 - Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:07 AM EDT

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sacheson

I'm a certified geek (really - I even have my certification cards to prove it! ;-) ) and develop in both Windows and Mac environments. And from my howevermanyyears of using both OSs, I have no complaints about how feature rich Microsoft's OSs are - I can argue in many instances where MSFT has bested Apple with core functionality. The problem with Microsoft is the user interface.

Once Balmer and the gang make the break from the eversostupid "Start" menu, reduce some of the ~billion senseless user "customizations", and get lay-people to write / proof the messages presented to users they'll start to bridge that divide. Until then Apple will eek out precious users because it's "easy".

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#2 - Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:09 PM EDT

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Florida_kes

Actually, no one NEEDS anything more than XP Pro SP3. Now if you want to talk about WANTING bells and whistles for no better reason than just because they're cool/neat/whatever....then you can talk about Windows 7. (or Vista or Firefox for that matter)

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#3 - Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:59 PM EDT

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