Microsoft Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade

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February 18th, 2010 by admin

Move up to Windows 7 Professional from Windows 7 Home Premium with Windows Anytime Upgrade
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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

5 Responses

L. G. Reid writes:
February 18th, 20104:40 pmat

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
John M. Walin writes:
February 18th, 20107:39 pmat

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
Jesterboomer writes:
February 18th, 20108:41 pmat

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
tribaltat writes:
February 18th, 201011:35 pmat

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
Mr. Adventure writes:
February 19th, 201012:26 amat

You buy a new computer to replace the old one, and it comes with a new operating system (Windows 7 Home Premium) that won’t run all your software. Then Microsoft suggests that you but this product for $[. . . ] in the hope that it will let some of your old stuff still work.

In classical Microsoft fashion, there’s no documentation to explain the big picture plan for Windows 7, the reasons we’re supposed to see these interface changes as improvements, just a lot of “not better, just different”. Especially funny: the 64 bit version of Internet Explorer 8 won’t run the Microsoft Windows 7 website!

In fairness, the OS appears to function well, with good performance, excellent memory management, and it seems to run most applications perfectly. But it’s an old Microsoft style that would force the purchase of an “upgrade” (with only 3 features: XP mode, backup, and connecting to a domain) on a brand new operating system, just so you can see if it solves some of the problems (check out the discussion thread that follows this review).

Among the things Microsoft has orphaned in Windows 7 is the software for my less than 2 year old Canon multifunction printer. The printer works on standard drivers, but without some of the the higher features (the text recognition application in the scanner, for example).

The good news is that Win 7 Pro has backup capability. The bad news is the “. bkf” files used in the Windows XP backup application are not compatible with Windows 7 Professional backups! Microsoft hasn’t grabbed the idea that the purpose of BACKUP is to be able to RESTORE, and that could very likely be on some new computer that arrived yesterday from Amazon with still another bright new OS idea from Microsoft. Microsoft users should never count on Microsoft software for backups!

The causes and effects among the Windows 7 products and the new multiprocessor architectures are hard to figure out, and Microsoft is not speaking plainly to the issues that are raised. I’m of the opinion that the Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade provides only features that a responsible operating system vendor should have provided as part of it’s most basic release. And, personally, I wish I’d stayed with a Windows XP machine.
Rating: 2 / 5