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Imserba Webstore - Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Upgrade
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List Price: $199.99
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Manufacturer: Microsoft Software
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Microsoft
EAN: 0882224883443
Feature: 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
Format: DVD-ROM
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Label: Microsoft Software
Manufacturer: Microsoft Software
Model: FQC-00130
Platform: Windows 7
Publisher: Microsoft Software
Release Date: 2009-10-22
Studio: Microsoft Software
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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
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Editorial Reviews:
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Microsoft Win Pro 7 English Version Upgrade US Only DVD Use to upgrade from XP Pro or Vista Pro to Windows 7 Pro. ********** If upgrading from XP......must do a back-up of all data PRIOR to the install as the upgrade will clean the system completely.**********
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Summary: $189.00 just thrown away
Comment: Don't buy this unless you have Windows Vista Business. Any other Windows (XP, Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium or Ultimate) will not allow you to automatically upgrade!!! You will have to do a "clean install." I would NEVER have bought this product if I had known it wasn't a simple upgrade!!!!!!! The advertising for this product should make it WAY more clear what you're getting into if you buy this. If buying info had been more clear, I would have chosen the Windows 7 Ultimate for just a few dollars more. Now I'm stuck with software I can't use, and I just lost nearly $200 :( I can't return it even though I never actually installed it, as I opened the package before discovering this upgrade issue. I can't sell it to anyone either, because who's going to want opened software. I phoned Windows customer service to see if they could help me exchange it or provide me with a way to guarantee to another purchaser that I had never used the license key, but they would not help me with that.
Don't make the same mistake I did!!
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Summary: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Upgrade
Comment: I am an eightyone year old man and if I can do it you can but I would not buy anythang less than Microsoft Windows 7 "Professional" Full or Upgrade.
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Summary: Not ready for prime time
Comment: I have a reasonably peppy 18-month-old Dell OptiPlex that has, with a few hiccups, been satisfactorily running Windows XP. Yet I was lured by the reviewers who have heaped praise on Microsoft's new release. And I thought it would solve some of the annoyances in my XP set up, like the propensity of my speech recognition software (Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10) to crash at odd moments.
So, I bought a Windows 7 Professional (64-bit) upgrade, backed up my data and took the plunge.
At first, things went swimmingly. The Windows Easy Transfer tool worked as advertised moving all my data files and settings. I found drivers for all of my peripherals and then I started reinstalling all my programs. (One big mistake: I did not make a "system image" when I had Windows 7 up and running with all the new drivers installed. You'll see why in a moment.)
I was delighted that I could use Dragon without a system crash. So far so good.
Then, somewhere in the process of installing my other programs, things started going haywire. First, the "sleep" function stopped working. My system wouldn't "wake up" and I had to manually turn it off and on again. I tried going back to a restore point, but the restore procedure failed, and it wiped out all of my other restore points. Since I had not made a system image earlier, I was out of luck.
Things quickly went from bad to worse. Programs started freezing and the trusty old control-alt-delete would not terminate them. When I tried to reboot, the system got stuck on a black screen and would not go forward. In short... I went through many hours of computer hell.
Finally, I gave up and went back to XP. Fortunately, I had made a disk image backup of my old system with Acronis True Image 2009, and within an hour I was back to my old, not so trusty XP system.
So what are the morals?
1. Make sure to make a disk image of your current system with a product like Acronis so you can go back to xp if you have to. (Note, on my system Acronis True Image 2009 worked fine, but the 2010 version crashed my xp system, and seemed to make my W7 problems worse.)
2. Once your W7 system is up and running, use the system backup software to make a disk image, so you don't have to rely on the flaky restore point system.
3. Make more system images along the way, so you can roll it back if installing your software breaks something.
My next computer will be a Mac.
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Summary: DO NOT UPGRADE
Comment: I bought both Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional pre-release. Disregard all of the hype of the last 6 months - Windows 7 is NOT worth the cost, the time, the risks, or the hassles of upgrading. My most reliable computer is still my Windows XP.
In addition - if you have the Vista Home Premium - you can NOT use the Windows 7 Professional upgrade.
With Windows 7 you get slight improvements on the task bar and interface - however - you risk losing your data, having to do a complete reinstall of ALL of your programs, and then - when you finally have it installed - many of your programs will crash with Windows 7.
DO NOT UPGRADE - if you have a working system. The improvements are very marginal.
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Summary: Disastrous!
Comment: I bought the computer for which this was destined three years ago. I'd intended to upgrade that machine to Vista, so I added a nice video card. Then Vista was released, and it proved to be disastrous. I passed. In the mean time, I doubled the RAM in my computer, and I watched when MS released the beta of Windows 7 as tech writers hailed the new OS as a huge improvement. With this in mind, I decided to take advantage of an offer to purchase the Windows 7 Pro upgrade for $100.
After a few days, I finally got around to installing the 32-bit version of Windows 7 on my computer. What a mistake! First, I had difficulties locating drivers for components made by well-known manufacturers: ever heard of Linksys? Belkin? Some of these I never found. Then, in the first week, I was getting the blue screen of death (BSOD) more than a half-dozen times per day, often in the middle of the night when no one was working on the computer. So much for stability!
The BSOD issue prompted me to install the 64-bit version. In this case as well, I have been unable to find drivers (including for network cards).
Now, contrast my Windows 7 experience with my Ubuntu 9.10 experience. I installed 64-bit Ubuntu. All the drivers were available, and the operating system is fast and stable. It's also free and easy to use, looks great, and includes tons of terrific free applications (including OpenOffice, the first office suite to give MS Office a run for its money).
I only have a few reasons to run Windows: I'm a software developer, and some of the applications I develop use technologies targeted at Windows. I also have other software (e.g., Quicken and the music notation program Sibelius) for which Linux versions aren't available. My solution will be to run Windows in a virtual machine. Otherwise, I'm going to stick with Ubuntu for the rest of my computing needs.
My recommendation: download Ubuntu and, if you're still a bit nervous about a new operating system, pick up a book like this: Beginning Ubuntu Linux, Fourth Edition. As for Windows? Don't even go there.
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