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Microsoft Windows 7 Professional |  | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $299.99
Buy New: $250.00
as of 9/8/2010 21:11 EDT details
You Save: $49.99 (17%)
New (19) from $250.00
Seller: MN Valley Media
Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 58
Format: DVD-ROM
Platform: Windows 7
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: 131
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.1
MPN: FQC-00129
Model: FQC-00129
UPC: 882224883436
EAN: 0882224883436
ASIN: B002DHLVII
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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 |
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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 to company networks effortlessly and more securely with Domain Join. With all the exciting entertainment features of Windows Home Premium, it's a great choice for home and for business. Need to use multiple languages on your PC or help protect your data with enhanced BitLocker security? Get Windows 7 Ultimate.  More work, more play, and more of everything in between. Click to enlarge. |  Manage lots of open programs, documents, and browser windows easily with thumbnail and full-screen previews of open windows. Click to enlarge. |  With Snap you can arrange two windows side-by-side just by dragging them to opposite sides of your screen. Click to enlarge. |  Open files you use regularly in just two clicks with Jump Lists on the improved taskbar. | Everything you need for work and home Simplifies everyday tasks
- Improved desktop navigation features like Snap, Peek and Shake, make it easier to manage all of your open windows.
- Creating a home network has never been easier. You can even share files and printers with all the PCs with Windows 7 on the network.
- Find virtually anything on your PC – from documents to songs to email – just by typing a word or two with Windows Search.
Works the way you want
- Designed to make your PC sleep and resume quicker.
- Takes full advantage of the power and multi-tasking capabilities of the latest 64-bit PCs.
Makes new things possible
- Watch, pause, rewind and record TV with Windows Media Center.
- Includes integrated video and Dolby audio codecs.
Simplifies Everyday Tasks Simple to use Preview
Manage lots of open programs, documents, and browser windows easily with thumbnail and full-screen previews of open windows. Pin
Open files and get around your PC faster with the improved taskbar. You can easily pin programs you use often to the taskbar and launch them in just one click.  Windows 7 lets you peek behind open windows to get a quick look at your desktop. Click to enlarge. |  Instantly locate and open virtually any file on your PC right from the Start menu with Windows Search. Click to enlarge. |  Turn your PC into a TV with Windows Media Center, and enjoy your favorite videos and music with Windows Media Player. Click to enlarge. | Jump Lists
Open files you use regularly in just two clicks with Jump Lists on the improved taskbar. Snap
Windows 7 has simple new ways to manage open windows. For example, with Snap you can arrange two windows side-by-side just by dragging them to opposite sides of your screen. Peek and Shake
Windows 7 lets you peek behind open windows to get a quick look at your desktop. Windows Search
Instantly locate and open virtually any file on your PC, from documents to emails to songs, right from the Start menu, with Windows Search. Easy to connect  Setting up wireless connections is easier with consistent, one-click connections to available networks. Click to enlarge. |  Enjoy the photos, music, and videos on your home PC when you're away from home with remote media streaming. Click to enlarge. |  Manage Backup and Restore and other features through Action Center. Click to enlarge. |  Search, organize, and edit files across a network in the same way you would a single folder.Click to enlarge. | Wireless setup
With Windows 7, setting up wireless connections is easier with consistent, one-click connections to available networks, whether those networks are based on Wi-Fi, mobile broadband, dial-up, or corporate VPN. HomeGroup
Connect Windows 7 PCs on a home network in just four clicks and easily get to the photos, music, and files on each one--even share printers--with HomeGroup. Easy to browse the web Internet Explorer 8
Visual search helps you quickly find the information you want by adding visual cues and previews to search results from top search providers including Live Search, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Amazon, and others. Internet Explorer 8
Use Web slices to conveniently keep up with changes on frequently updated websites, like eBay auctions or traffic sites, directly from the IE8 toolbar. Easy to communicate and share Windows Live Photo Gallery
Windows Live Photo Gallery makes share your photos to your favorite photo site easy. Windows Live Mail
Windows Live Mail makes managing multiple email accounts easy. Windows Live Family Safety
Keep your child safe by managing what sites they can visit and who they can send/receive emails and im communications from. Note: Windows Live components need to be downloaded separately. Works The Way You Want Faster and More Reliable Resume from sleep
We designed Windows 7 to help PCs sleep and resume from sleep more quickly by improving the way Windows 7 manages drivers, programs, and power. Faster and more reliable
We reduced the amount of memory your PC needs for open windows and to execute commands to help it be more responsive to commands. Fewer clicks and less interruptions
Makes New Things Possible Media on your terms Windows Media Center
Turn your PC into a TV with Windows Media Center. Windows Media Center
Watch shows for free when and where you want with Internet TV. DirectX 11
DirectX 11 technology delivers breathtaking game graphics so real, it's unreal. New ways to engage Windows Touch
Windows Touch makes PCs with touch screens easier and more intuitive to use. Media on your terms Windows Media Player
More and more consumer electronics, from TVs to digital photo frames, can be connected to home networks. With Play To in Windows 7, you'll be able to easily send music, photos, videos from your PC to a networked device throughout your home. You can enjoy the photos, music, and videos on your home PC when you're away from home with remote media streaming. Work anywhere Location Aware Printing
Windows 7 will automatically pick the right printer for you when you move from home to work networks. Work anywhere with less effort. - Get connected in three clicks wherever there's a wireless network connection.
- Keep documents on your PC and on network servers in sync automatically.
- Your PC will automatically use the printer you prefer for whatever network you're on.
- Simplify making presentations special settings that keep your PC from sleeping and turn off messages, notifications, and screen savers.
- Instantly locate virtually any file, email, or document on your PC just by typing a word or two.
- Get around your PC faster with the improved taskbar.
- Open programs you use regularly in one click and files you use regularly in just two.
- Manage lots of open programs, documents, and browser windows easily with thumbnail and full-screen previews of open windows.
- Manage multiple email accounts, including Hotmail, Gmail, AOL, and Yahoo! Mail Plus, all in one place with one simple program.
- Get to the files, photos, and music on any PC with Windows 7 in the house from any other.
- Print to any printer in the house from any PC with Windows 7 in the house.
Safeguard your hard work. - Advanced Backup and Restore makes it easier to keep your work safely backed up to external or network drives and accessible if you need it.
- File encryption helps keep proprietary and confidential information on a PC secure if it is lost or stolen.
- Preserve your investment in programs designed for Windows XP with Windows XP Mode.
- Windows Internet Explorer 8 helps keep your PC safer from malware and you safer from fraudulent websites designed to fool you into divulging private information.
- Easily add your PC to a secured, managed, network with domain join capabilities.
- Group policy controls help administrators more easily and effectively manage the security and configuration of multiple PCs.
Choose the Windows 7 Edition That Is Best For You
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 Windows is windows is windows September 6, 2010
K. Gorelick
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you need to use Windows then there is no longer any choice--you need to buy Windows 7. No matter what they do to it, it is still windows. As if you could only buy good humor and it only made one flavor--dirt. But you could buy your dirt ice cream on a stick, in a cone, or in a cup.
Calling Windows 7 the best windows ever is like calling the spaghettios the best spaghettios ever. True, but pointless.
More Confusing than Linux (sorta) August 28, 2010
David Cloutman (Oakland, CA United States)
I've used Windows since 3.1 and can't say I've ever been a fan. But until recently, I felt that it gave the best desktop experience around. Vista was a huge disappointment. I never bothered with the flashy Aero interface, nor have I with Windows 7, so I have little to say on the matter except the more I can make my GUI look like Windows 95, the happier I am.
What ticks me off most about the post XP OSes, and to a lesser extent with the previous releases, is that the OS fundamentals; security, user management, file management, networking, etc. don't make a lot on sense. Too much complexity and a slavish refusal to remove crufty features have created an OS that is more legacy than new. And that's a huge problem, because the system is too difficult to learn and properly maintain, even for a computer expert.
For instance, I have to click through three dialogs just to figure out who owns a file. Permissions are granted through a completely opaque process, and I have yet to figure out what is special about a junction, and why we need them vs. the classic shortcuts. All I know is I have icons on my system for which I theoretically have privileges as an administrator that I can't access without of going through all sorts of strange hoops. Ironically, in my experience, the Linux security model is really quite a bit simpler and more intuitive to use.
Like many, I had hoped Microsoft would have fixed Vista's problems with Windows 7, but they opted for building DVRs and eye candy and all sorts of things into an operating system that don't belong, instead of focusing on managing the basic functionality of a computer.
 It's Windows August 4, 2010
Matt Galvin
Eh, it's Windows. It is at least an improvement over XP and Vista but its still overpriced. I use Windows 7 via Bootcamp on my MacBook Pro for gaming. It works flawlessly.
If you need to run Windows, the upgrade is worth it.
 Win 7: Works but lacks joy July 29, 2010
Roaming Seer (USA)
In the Windows realm, I've used everything from 3, 3.11 Workgroup, 95, 98, XP, Vista and now Win7. Win7 is equivalent to XP with a better gui but more bloat. MS has included the best of Vista while allowing one to tone back Vista's nanny warnings. My PC is setup as an HTPC. It runs pretty well with occasional driver problems but that's a catch-22: lots of vendors (s/w and h/w) making stuff gives you a lot of choices but the cost is occasional program freezes- not a complaint, just reality.
Overall I'm okay with Win7 X64, so why am I only giving it 3 stars? Because this OS makes incremental improvements on XP with a nice GUI that you never enjoy using. A lot of hardware and software is supported, and that along with XP's pending obsolescence are the two biggest reasons to buy it. In fact, all of the current mainstay operating systems could use fresh new replacements to be more intuitive, faster and easier to maintain, but backward compatibility limits, both previous user's familiarity and older program compatibility, limits what's possible.
Overall...
+ Better looking GUI than XP/Vista
+ Better security features than XP
+ Generally responsive
+ X64 bit support is good with a broad range of support for hardware/software
+ Power on and shutdown are faster than Vista, just 12 seconds to turn off.
- Not intuitive. If you do get a problem, google it- don't waste time on Windows help.
- Slow: Cold boots takes 70 seconds to Windows beep prompt, 1:30 until Windows Media Center (set to autoload) ready w/ a 3GHz E8500 Core2Duo, 4GB & 7200rpm Medium-Fast SpinPoint SATA drive. Of course this would improve a lot with a SSD...
- Windows Media Center occasionally locks up even with all the updates.
- OS doesn't play well with others: Tedious to get it to do simple high speed transfers w/ other OSs.
 Windows 7...FANTASTIC!!!! July 19, 2010
Roger (USA)
Having suffered through Vista, and not wanting a chance of even a vestige of that vile product on my system, I first installed a new hard drive! Then, booted to the Windows 7 install disk. Piece of cake!! I installed the 32 bit version. All of the drivers were there. The install took maybe an hour and a half. Perfect. Love Windows 7!!! If you have been using Vista, Win 7 is the equivalent of a drowning man surfacing for air. I kid you not. Get Windows 7 today!!
Also, I attempted to order from CDW and got a couple of knuckleheads on the phone with them who knew absolutely nothing about the product. Was trying to decide on a version, etc. So, just did my own reseach on the Microsoft site and ordered from Amazon, a reliable source.
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