| WHICH WINDOWS 7 IS BEST FOR YOU? | HOME PREMIUM | PROFESSIONAL | ULTIMATE |
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Makes the things you do every day easier with improved desktop navigation.
The new taskbar gives you a better view and more control of windows on your desktop; and new navigation features like Snap, which makes it easy to compare the contents of two windows side by side. |
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Faster and easier to launch programs and find the documents you use most often.
Windows 7 keeps the things you use most right in front of you. Type a word or two to find virtually anything on your PC, from documents to songs to email. And with just two clicks, access files, programs and tasks you use most — a faster way to resume your last music playlist, visit recently viewed websites, or compose a new email message. |
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Make your web experience faster, easier and safer than ever with Internet Explorer® 8.
Internet Explorer 8 helps you do what you want online, faster. With innovations to the address bar, search, tabs, and the Favorites bar, Internet Explorer 8 brings you more information, with less effort. |
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Watch many of your favorite TV shows for free when and where you want with Internet TV.¹
Watch your favorite shows for free when and where you want. Internet TV in Windows Media Center lets you tune in to hundreds of hours of programming — full length episodes of TV shows, concerts, movie trailers, news and sports clips, and more. |
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Easy to create a home network and connect your PCs to a printer with HomeGroup.
HomeGroup makes connecting the computers in your home a painless process. Now, sharing files across the various PCs in your home — and many other devices — is as easy as if all your data were on a single hard drive. |
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Run many Windows XP productivity applications in Windows XP Mode.²
Windows XP Mode provides you with the flexibility to run many older Windows XP applications right from the Windows 7 desktop, helping to extend the life of your software library. |
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Connect to company networks easily and more securely with Domain Join.
Connect PCs quickly and more securely to your wired or wireless domain network with Domain Join. |
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Recover your data easily with automatic backup to your home or business network.
Help protect and secure your data. Advance Backup lets you schedule a periodic backup to save data or an entire system image to a network location or a local drive. You can easily restore previous versions of files that you've accidentally deleted or changed. |
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Help protect your data on your PC and portable storage devices against loss or theft with BitLocker™.
BitLocker Drive Encryption, introduced in Windows Vista, helps protect sensitive data from being accessed by unauthorized users who come into possession of lost, stolen, or improperly decommissioned computers. Windows 7 extends BitLocker protection to USB storage devices while making the original functionality even easier to use. |
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Work in the language of your choice or switch between any of thirty-five languages.
Windows 7 Ultimate is available in thirty-five languages — simultaneously. If you have a multilingual household or are learning a new language, you can install as many languages as you want and even switch between them as easily as logging off and back on again. And if your family shares a single PC, each family member can use his or her preferred language to interact with the PC. |
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| ¹ | Internet access required. Free Internet TV content varies by geography. Some content may require additional fees. |
| ² | Requires download of Windows XP Mode (which runs on Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate) and virtualization technology such as Windows Virtual PC. Customers can download Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC free-of-charge from www.windows.com/business/downloads when available. |
