I am using the windows 7 rc right now and planning on upgrading should I get
ultimate? or just home premium. What's the advantage?

No one can tell you which one to get. Look at what each one has. Decide your
main uses of the operating system. Then see which O/S best matches what you
want to use the computer for.

Your question is similar to your asking; should I buy a Ford or a Toyota. No
one can tell you.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"John" <linton@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I am using the windows 7 rc right now and planning on upgrading should I
>get ultimate? or just home premium. What's the advantage?

Richard Urban wrote:

> No one can tell you which one to get. Look at what each one has. Decide
> your main uses of the operating system. Then see which O/S best matches
> what you want to use the computer for.
>
> Your question is similar to your asking; should I buy a Ford or a
> Toyota. No one can tell you.
>

I can tell him, he should get a toyota!

As for flavors of windows7, I always get the best.

PS> vista was the worse!

ok,

John wrote:

>
> I am using the windows 7 rc right now and planning on upgrading should I
> get ultimate? or just home premium. What's the advantage?

Doesn't Home Premium make it sound like it's better than Home Plain, or
Home Substandard? How do they know what you do at home?

Split the difference, and buy Home Pro.....

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"John" <linton@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I am using the windows 7 rc right now and planning on upgrading should I
> get ultimate? or just home premium. What's the advantage?

"John" <linton@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I am using the windows 7 rc right now and planning on upgrading should I
>get ultimate? or just home premium. What's the advantage?

No need to get Ultimate if you want want to go higher than
Home Premium. Get Professional. Professional is Ultimate
without BitLocker and 35 built-in languages. That's why
Ultimate is only $20 US more than Professional. However,
until July 11 in Canada and USA, you can pre-order Home
Premium and Professional upgrade versions for half price.
Win 7 includes both 32 and 64 bit versions in all retail
packages.

Off the top of my head: get Professional, but only because it sounds better
than 'Home Premium' and you will be taken more seriously. Windows 7 Ultimate
will be almost identical to Windows 7 Enterprise. Those two will have only a
few extra features over Professional, constellating around security and
features of worth only in corporate environments. Ultimate will probably
*not* be offering future downloads of extra goodies and games this time
'round, so in all likelihood you will want Professional and it will be the
cherry.

Each version 'up' is a superset of the one below i.e. it Professional
includes everything in Home Premium PLUS extra Professional features.

Here's a good comparison chart:

[Windows 7 Product Editions: A Comparison - WinSuperSite]
http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/win7_skus_compare.asp

Saucy


"John" <linton@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I am using the windows 7 rc right now and planning on upgrading should I
> get ultimate? or just home premium. What's the advantage?

Afaik, Windows 7 RC is Ultimate only. You won't be able to upgrade to Home
Premium unless you do a fresh install.

Earle

"John" <linton@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I am using the windows 7 rc right now and planning on upgrading should I
>get ultimate? or just home premium. What's the advantage?

For my desktop I plan on Professional. Windows Ultimate and Enterprise -
which are almost identical this time - have some corporate features over
Professional such as bitlocker, but that's about it. This time 'round it is
unlikely there will be any Ultimate extras - no games to download, nor any
dream scenes etc. etc. So I'm going to run Professional not Ultimate this
time. I've already pre-ordered a copy at about 50% off from Amazon.

[Windows 7 Product Editions: A Comparison - WinSuperSite]
http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/win7_skus_compare.asp

[Pre-order Windows 7: Find participating online retailers in the US -
WinSuperSite Blog]
http://community.winsupersite.com/bl...in-the-us.aspx

Saucy


"TheBiG" <kah@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Richard Urban wrote:

>> No one can tell you which one to get. Look at what each one has. Decide
>> your main uses of the operating system. Then see which O/S best matches
>> what you want to use the computer for.
>>
>> Your question is similar to your asking; should I buy a Ford or a Toyota.
>> No one can tell you.
>>

>
> I can tell him, he should get a toyota!
>
> As for flavors of windows7, I always get the best.
>
> PS> vista was the worse!