Windows 7 - Why update?

Microsoft designed Windows 7 to be more reliable, more responsive and to make the things you do every day easier.

Find out why you'll love Windows 7

• Find files quickly
• Easier wireless set-up
• Personalize your PC

Windows 7 Home Premium makes it easy to create a home network and share all of your favorite photos, video, and music. You can even watch TV programs for free, whenever and wherever you want. If you like media, Home Premium is for you.

Home Premium specifically offers:

• The ability to create a HomeGroup—to share photos, video, and music across your home network.
• An enhanced Windows Media Center—watch many TV shows for free with Internet TV. You can also watch, pause, rewind, and record TV on your PC. Remember to tell your customers that Internet access is required for free Internet TV, and that Internet TV content is only available to US customers. Additional hardware may be required.
• View and switch between all open windows--open favorite programs in just one click by pinning them to the Taskbar.

Windows 7 Professional gives you all the entertainment features of Windows 7 Home Premium and the business features for your work demands.

• Easily connect to company networks with Domain Join.
• Recover data easily with automatic backup and send files to a remote location safer with Encrypting File System.
• Easily print to the right printer with Location Aware Printing.

Windows 7 Ultimate is designed for people who want it all...

Windows 7 Ultimate is the most versatile and powerful edition of Windows 7. It combines remarkable ease-of-use with the entertainment features of Home Premium and the business capabilities of Professional, including the ability to run many Windows XP productivity programs in Windows XP Mode. For added security, you can encrypt your data with BitLocker and BitLocker To Go. And for extra flexibility, you can work in any of 35 languages. Get it all with Windows 7 Ultimate.

	XP	Vista	Home Premium	Professional	Ultimate
Windows Search quickly locates files and programs for better productivity		•	•	•	•
Faster and easier to launch programs and find the documents you use most often with Pinning and Jumplists			•	•	•
Make the things you do every day easier with improved desktop navigation with Aero Shake and Aero Peak			•	•	•
Watch, pause, rewind and record TV on your PC with Windows Media Centre	Media Centre Edition only	•	•	•	•
Watch TV shows for free using Internet TV			•	•	•
Support for Windows Multi-Touch enabled hardware		•	•	•	•
Easily create a home network and connect your PCs to a printer with HomeGroup			•	•	•
Personalise your PC with Aero Background desktop slideshow			•	•	•
Connect to company networks easily and more securely with Domain Join	Pro +	Business +	•	•	•
Unprecedented compatibility with many programs designed for Windows XP	•			•	•
Work in the language of your choice or switch between any of thirty-five languages		Ultimate only			•
Help protect data on your PC and portable storage devices against loss or theft with BitLocker					•