Windows 7 Ultimate = $219.99
Windows 7 Professional = $199.99
Windows 7 Home Premium = $119.99
It's more like the equivalent to U.S.$350 for Ultimate and $200 for Home Premium here where I live...
My favorite Windows 7 editions is Home Premium, because I use Windows 7 only for home use. Windows 7 Professional is for work use. Windows 7 Ultimate is for both home and work use.
Not necessarily. Those are just
trade names. If you are a home user with some use for more than 16 GB RAM or need a multilingual interface, for example, you need Ultimate. Corporate networks need either Professional or Ultimate because of the need to authenticate the workstation in network domains. But a small business with a peer-to-peer, workgroup-based network (or none at all) could perfectly use Home Premium or, where available, Home Basic or even Starter. Likewise, a freelance professional working from home can perfectly use one of the lower editions for his/her work.
You only know Windows 7 is just an operating system, nothing special. It can crash, BSOD and unbootable easily.
True. The same applies to any other OS.
For example, I bought Windows 7 Ultimate. After I install Windows 7 Ultimate on my PC, suddenly my PC crashed. Safe Mode, Startup Repair and even tech support can't solve the problem. Because of this, I wasted $219.99 for nothing
A clean reinstall after reformatting the system drive or partition usually works, even though the data that were there can't be recovered, unless you have a backup. Otherwise, you should post a specific question to the forum and maybe people can help you. Windows 7 has been shown to work even in very old PCs with very slow and outdated hardware by today's standards, as long as you have at least 1 GB RAM (I used to run it smoothly on my old PC from 2005, which had an Athlon 64 single-core processor and 2 GB RAM, and it was faster than XP), so I doubt it's a basic hardware problem. Drivers, perhaps?
Consider using Windows 7 Starter because it's very cheap and not wasting money, but it's too bad because Windows 7 Starter only designed for pre-installed netbooks. Windows 7 Starter is used for very basic tasks. Example, use Office 2007 for homework, get information by Google in Internet and use up to 3 most favorite programs at once.
Apart from the 3-program limit (no way that would be enough for me) and only legal OEM availability, Starter also only comes in 32 bits and this is a no-no if you have 4 GB RAM or more. Starter was meant for netbooks with underpowered processors and little RAM, for which the other versions might have been too heavy. But now the netbook market has all but evaporated, eaten away by tablets, and Starter wasn't that much lighter after all, so Windows 8 won't have such an edition.
I once saw a work colleague using a netbook with an Atom 1.5 GHz processor that was running Windows 7
Ultimate. Response times were pretty satisfactory. So, it seems that the real purpose of Windows 7 Starter is to lower the burden of the license cost for OEM systems manufacturers, so that they can offer cheaper products, but it's not really any technical limitation, at least not to a significant degree.
Where available (only in developing and "emerging" countries), Windows 7 Home Basic can be an interesting option for casual, unambitious users with basic computers. Otherwise, Home Premium is sure to meet the needs of 99% of home users and probably 90% of small business users. Windows 7 Professional's features are very specifically tailored for corporate workstations and it's definitely a waste to use it outside of that environment.
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