Advantages of upgrading from Home Premium??

Just wanted to know is there many advantages to gain from upgrading to Ultimate from Home Premium.

Im pretty happy with what I have now but is there much to gain?

What is the main differences and is it worth the money?

Hello Graemzy,

You can use the tutorial below and the links at the top of this tutorial to help compare the features between the two to see if it may be worth the additional costs to you or not. It just really depends on if you need these extra features or not versus the cost.

Compare Windows 7 Editions

Hope this helps some,
Shawn

Well, I doubt there are many benefits here for you. Home was made for the home user, pro for business, and ultimate for the guys who want it all. However, I would wager to say vista ultimate provided more than win7's ultimate, as it had a few games and a background movie player, among other things free to offer.

While win7ultimate has added security through bitlocker, if you don't use it (or don't know how), than I would stick to home. Especially due to the higher prices.

Pro (and ultimate) has one huge benifit, and that is virtualized xp mode. However, it doesn't do well with graphic intensive programs (games), but it is great for those programs that seem to ONLY work on XP. But if you don't have any such programs, you really don't need pro

Now there are other things that are offered in upgrading, but most of which you may never use or need. You would have to follow Brink's link and check it out yourself

Oh, looking through this I noticed some aero features only come with pro ( and ultimate). Now I am finally glad I got pro for the first time :)

DustSailor said:

Well, I doubt there are many benefits here for you. Home was made for the home user, pro for business, and ultimate for the guys who want it all. However, I would wager to say vista ultimate provided more than win7's ultimate, as it had a few games and a background movie player, among other things free to offer.

While win7ultimate has added security through bitlocker, if you don't use it (or don't know how), than I would stick to home. Especially due to the higher prices.

Pro (and ultimate) has one huge benifit, and that is virtualized xp mode. However, it doesn't do well with graphic intensive programs (games), but it is great for those programs that seem to ONLY work on XP. But if you don't have any such programs, you really don't need pro

Now there are other things that are offered in upgrading, but most of which you may never use or need. You would have to follow Brink's link and check it out yourself

+1 and you can't store a backup disk image on a network location using home edition which isn't a big deal really. I bought home edition knowing that I wouldn't need any of the added features. It's geared for businesses.

DustSailor said:

Oh, looking through this I noticed some aero features only come with pro ( and ultimate). Now I am finally glad I got pro for the first time :)

Uh...I'm not aware of any aero features on Pro or Ultimate which are not on home premium. Which aero features are you talking about?

pparks1 said:

DustSailor said:

Oh, looking through this I noticed some aero features only come with pro ( and ultimate). Now I am finally glad I got pro for the first time :)

Uh...I'm not aware of any aero features on Pro or Ultimate which are not on home premium. Which aero features are you talking about?

I just checked again and I was mistaken. Now I'm sad I got pro all over again lol (Just because I don't need it, but I guess it was only 30$ more).

What I find significant is the End of support life cycle.

Starter 2015.01.13
Home Basic 2015.01.13
Home Premium 2015.01.13
Professional 2020.01.13
Ultimate 2015.01.13 <--- this one seems very strange to me
Enterprise 2020.01.14