Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
November 8, 2009 | Posted by admin 
- (Includes 32 & 64-bit versions) Combines remarkable ease-of-use with the entertainment features of Home Premium and the business capabilities of Professional–get it all with with Windows 7 Ultimate
- 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
- Run many Windows XP productivity programs in Windows XP Mode; watch, pause, rewind, and record TV on your PC
- Easily create a home network and connect your PCs to a printer with HomeGroup; connect to company networks easily and more securely with Domain Join
- Recover your data easily with automatic backup to your home and business network; help protect data on your PC and portable storage devices against loss or theft with BitLocker
Product Description
With Microsoft Windows 7 Operating System Software Ultimate, 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
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Categories: Windows 7 | 
Tags: Microsoft, Ultimate, Windows | 
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Ok so Microsoft released Windows 7 to ‘move’ their XP users to it and Vista users to shut-up about how horrible Vista is… Well it fails to do both things and this is why:
1) XP Mode is HORRIBLE, it requires you to install Virtual PC (Microsoft provides XP Pro free of charge), it requires apps to be installed into XP’s virtual machine environment (and as every IT person knows that if this was to be done via imaging problems would occur) and ran through that. Well guess what, in what world does a IT tech want to do all that additional work? They DON’T!
2) Windows 7 is the SAME as Vista, it boasts improvements but if you really watch all Microsoft is boasting is the new taskbar; which is impressive but not worthy of buying a whole new OS over. The only real improvements with Windows 7 is the User Interface is build for MAC-tards. As if it wasn’t easy enough in XP or Vista it gets even easier with additional steps to get your things done, isn’t this great in the corporate environment, less productivity so your employees have to do more to get things done!
3) Windows 7 just like Vista is memory hog, memory may be cheap however that does not mean you take full advantage of it. The more memory an OS consumes; stability, performance, and security take a hit. Which is a failure with Vista which is no doubt a failure with Windows 7 (I’ve currently had two crashes on and my laptop officially supports Windows 7). I optimized the startup services and the so called ‘necessary’ tasks upon boot. Yes the drivers are official from HP.com.
4) Windows 7 is yet again an attack at Mac OS and a rip off of KDE (statement). There is nothing impressive at all with Windows 7. There is absolutely no innovation in this product at all. Everything in this product is a rip-off of another product that is a failure to market. For example Internet Explorer 8, MSN, Bing, Windows Media Player… Need I go on?
5) All of the so-called problems that Vista had should’ve been fixed free of charge. For example the WiFi problems that Vista has should be fixed free of charge after all you wouldn’t buy a NEW car that only comes with half a transmission would you, and if you did you’d want it fixed right rather than paying for a brand new version of that car right? Basically when you buy Windows 7 you’re buying a whole new car because of Microsofts shoddy business model.
6) One improvement with Windows 7 from Vista is that upon installation Windows 7 doesn’t use nearly as much disk space (but wow shouldn’t that be normal for an OS?)
7) The Aero Peek functionality can become annoying at times especially if nudge your mouse or your slightly touch your touch pad on your laptop. What happens is it does it’s Aero Peek and your screens disappear, this is more of an annoyance than anything…
9) Sometimes when you pin a program to the taskbar and have it autostart it’ll open up 2-3 different icons of that program in the taskbar (which is incredibly annoying)
10) The new ‘awesome’ technology that Microsoft has been boasting about calling their “Program Compatibility Assistant” “more improved than ever” is shoddy. It will constantly nag you about your application installation (even after you ask for it to stop) warning you that it didn’t install correctly (when it did).
11) The system defaults to NOT allowing unsigned drivers (an annoyance that I have to fix).
Rating: 1 / 5
I can’t get wireless Internet any more since installing Win 7 (I spent $400 to get wirelss Internet with XP with Netgear s/w and h/w for several computers, each one of them costing $100 for a card and the accompanying s/w at CircuitCity). I’m ready to erase it and go back to XP. It’s not that much faster at all. I notice no difference in speed with anything. It’s not that much space-saving. If anything it takes more. The learning curve is HUGE and Ultimate doesn’t even have the some of the same helpful features that XP has. The first discs I stuck in the drive to install were XP programs but Win 7 rejected them hands down, all of them. I’ve been working on it at least 48 hrs. now and so far only have the o/s installed and a couple of programs that work. I’ve been on the phone with Dell for hours and Microsoft for hours and have been reading Microsoft tutorials and downloading patches and virtual and XP mode software all day. So much for compatibility mode. Save your money and stick with XP. If you want to buy my copy of Win 7, it will probably be on Amazon this week for $150. There are enough people who seem to love it. Probably computer experts who don’t have a hard drive to lose or h/w and s/w to replace. Those who seem to hate it are those with the same types of problems I’ve had with it. Very disappointed.
I finally got a call from Microsoft, who had to escalate my problem clear up to the top somewhere. They couldn’t get XP mode installed on my machine. After they finally did it, it installed some programs, but most of them didn’t work. It won’t install even HP printer drivers, so you can’t print. I tried to install a DVD/CD burning software in XP Mode, but it won’t burn to any of my 3 burners. It creates and saves an image on the HD somewhere. Fully half of my programs don’t work in XP Mode or directly on the Windows 7 o/s. Am I supposed to cough up 1 or 2 grand to update all my s/w? Probably so. Huge hassle. Huge. I’ve never been this frustrated with anything in my life.
Rating: 1 / 5
Just downloaded Windows 7. It works a little faster than Vista, but not by a whole lot. There is definitely a learning curve if you are coming from XP. It looks almost EXACTLY like Vista, which is why I don’t understand the hype.
Someone told me that if you rewrite your hard drive with Windows 7 it will take up much less space than Vista. For some reason this is not true. After doing a re-write I still have 180GB of hard drive space left out of 320GB which is ridiculus since I have only the Operating System on the hard drive and a Windows.old Folder(most of which I deleted).
I initally was going to do an upgrade from Vista to Windows 7. However, I had problems Ugrading my computer from Vista to 7, so I did a rewrite. I knew that it would erase everything I had previously, but I figured I could re-install all of my drivers. WRONG. I have an HP Pavillion Special Edition Entertainment Notebook. HP’s are very user friendly. I can go on the website and reload any drivers for my specific computer. For some reason none of the drivers I’ve tried are loading well on Windows 7. NONE! I’m very frustrated because HP has very unique features, for example I can start my computer sort of like a PS3 just by swiping my finger instead of pushing a button. I cannot do that now after downloading Windows 7. I’ve tried both to download these drivers from what’s left of my hard drive and both at HP’s website and no luck. Not even my Web Cam driver will install. Sort of frustrated with my first hours of Windows 7. Windows 7 has turned what was a very interactive computer into an empty shell.
If you have a regular desktop computer with no special features, then a complete re-write may be the best bet. However, if you have a specialized PC try an upgrade. If you don’t want to risk an upgrade then SAVE YOUR MONEY and stick with Vista.
Rating: 3 / 5
Apparenty a number of people are being paid for their reviews.
Windows 7 is fine but boot up is 2-3 times longer than with XP, resume from hibernate is much longer and opening programs takes longer. Some simple programs don’t work well under Windows 7 unless I install XP emulator, which makes me wonder I would bother to upgrade from XP (I had vista on a new laptop that I upgraded). The emulator is 500 MB by the way, so that negates any space advantage Windows 7 offers.
If you have Vista and use it professionally, 7 is better. If you have vista and use the computer for internet applications, e-mail, entertainment, don’t bother upgrading. If you have XP, be happy that you currently have the best Windows operating system to date and save your money.
Rating: 1 / 5
Simply, Windows 7 is by far the most, reliable, easy to use, faster, goodlookin OS microsoft has ever released
.. I love this one 
GO GO GO Microsoft
Rating: 5 / 5