Windows 7: Home Premium or Professional?

FTBoomer · 26 Jun 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by saiarcot895

x32 and x64 are in the DVD. No separate purchase necessary.

Oh, and I bought Home Premium.

Great Thanks.

zigzag3143 · 26 Jun 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by weh

While I'd like Ultimate, it would mostly be a vanity thing. And were I buying Professional at retail, the small additional charge for Ultimate would be a no-brainer. However, with Professional at half price against Ultimate at full price, that, too, is a no brainer.

Currently, I remote into several family members' PCs using Remote Desktop (they all have XP Pro). It appears that Home Premium does not have that ability.

Ergo, I'll be buying 3 copies of Professional instead of 2 Home Premiums and 1 Professional. At least it's only $300 instead of $600 . . . .

First a question then the answer.
I wonder if there will be different levels of support for home vs pro versions. Not that support has ever been M$ strong suite.

If I had to buy it Pro or ultimate would be my choice.

Ken

smarteyeball · 26 Jun 2009

If I didn't have a technet sub and the offer was available in Australia, I'd go for Home Premium.

tw33k · 26 Jun 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by smarteyeball

If I didn't have a technet sub and the offer was available in Australia, I'd go for Home Premium.

yeah i'm glad i have a technet sub. i just gotta have ultimate.

smarteyeball · 26 Jun 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by tw33k

yeah i'm glad i have a technet sub. i just gotta have ultimate.

lol, yep :)

leelord · 04 Jul 2009

I did pro. I'm not sure how many of my XP programs would run on Premium. For example Norton Save and Restore 2.0, Norton 9 Anti-Virus are most important to me. I'd rather be safe than sorry.

nate42nd · 04 Jul 2009

I'm doing a clean install on a new build and want to create system images to network drives. I have to buy Pro for image on network drives. I can find $15 more in change under my couch cushions. I don't see why someone would buy Pro unless it's an upgrade.

It's my understanding I could not use an upgrade version on a new machine because you need a previous install disk to make it work. Someone told me I could but I don't see how.

DocBrown · 04 Jul 2009

After testing Ultimate for over 8 months, I could not go with anything less.

" Doc "

Razzen · 04 Jul 2009

I choose Home Premium. Pro didn't convince me at all.

SIW2 · 04 Jul 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by myzr7

Just pre ordered Home Premium cost $54 including tax. Both x64 and x86 included in the package is what it said. I have one 64 bit and two 32 bit machines. Lets see load it three times. Thats 54 divided by 3 = 18. I can live with that if it works for me.

Quote: Originally Posted by saiarcot895

Are we allowed to load it three times?

No.

You need a separate license for each machine.

The forthcoming Family license allows 3 machines - it's more expensive, obviously - unless they do a special launch deal on that - you might be better getting 3 upgrades on the pre order deal.