{"id":5960,"date":"2009-02-04T23:08:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T17:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=5960"},"modified":"2020-05-24T10:18:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T04:48:35","slug":"windows-7-editions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2009\/02\/windows-7-editions\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Windows 7 Editions Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced that the upcoming <strong>Windows 7 will boast of six editions<\/strong> &#8211; Starter, Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise. But unlike Windows Vista, upgrading to a higher, more featured version will <em>not <\/em>result in loss of existing features from the lower version. Also Windows 7 is designed to be more hardware compatible and will run easily on small netbooks as well as power packed gaming desktops.<\/p>\n<h3>Windows 7 Editions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Windows Starter? edition <\/strong>&#8211; offered <em>pre-installed by an OEM<\/em>, this edition is available only in the OEM channel on new PCs limited to <em>specific types of hardware<\/em>. Which means you cannot buy is directly from the market.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Windows 7 Home Basic <\/strong><strong>edition <\/strong>-? available <em>only in emerging markets<\/em>, for customers looking for an entry-point Windows experience on a full-size value PC. Which means you cannot buy it in the US.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Windows 7 Home Premium<\/strong> <strong>edition <\/strong>&#8211; Gives full-function PC experience and a visually rich environment in everything from the way they experience entertainment to the way they connect their devices. Recommended for all consumers, like you and me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Windows 7 Professional <\/strong><strong>edition <\/strong>&#8211; Recommended for small businesses and people who work at home but have to operate in an IT-managed or business environment where security and productivity are critical. Vista Business users will prefer this version.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Windows 7 Ultimate <\/strong><strong>edition <\/strong>&#8211; designed for PC enthusiasts who want it all and customers who want the security features such as BitLocker found in Windows 7 Enterprise edition. This would really be loaded with features Windows7 will boast about.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Windows 7 Enterprise <\/strong><strong>edition <\/strong><strong> <\/strong>&#8211; Offers advanced data protection, lower cost compliance and IT tools to streamline PC management and help save costs, while enabling access to information from anywhere for business users. It will <em>not be available at retail or by OEMs for preinstallation<\/em> on a new PC. So you cannot buy it from stores.<\/p>\n<p>Till these Windows 7 editions are available for sale in the market, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2009\/01\/download-windows-7-beta-software\/\">download Windows 7 beta<\/a> software for free right now, and load it up with some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2009\/01\/download-antivirus-software-for-windows-7\/\">antivirus software for Windows7<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced that the upcoming Windows 7 will boast of six editions &#8211; Starter, Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}