- (Includes 32 & 64-bit versions cd-rom) Combines remarkable ease-of-use with the entertainment features of Home Premium and the business capabilities of Professional–get it all with with Windows 7 Ultimate
- Make the things you do every day easier with improved desktop navigation; start programs faster and more easily, and quickly find the documents you use most often
- Run many Windows XP productivity programs in Windows XP Mode; watch, pause, rewind, and record TV on your PC
- Easily create a home network and connect your PCs to a printer with HomeGroup; connect to company networks easily and more securely with Domain Join
- Recover your data easily with automatic backup to your home and business network; help protect data on your PC and portable storage devices against loss or theft with BitLocker
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With Microsoft Windows 7 Operating System Software Ultimate, you’ll be able to run many Windows XP productivity programs in Windows XP mode* and recover your data easily with automatic back-ups to your home or business network. You’ll be able to connect to company networks easily and more securely with Domain Join. And with entertainment features like Windows Media Center, it’s great for home as well as for business.Amazon.com Product Description
Upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate. 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. … More >>
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Windows 7 sounds great, but I am not pleased with the upgrade pricing. I purchased a new laptop 14 months ago and paid the premium to have vista ultimate as my os. Microsoft needs to look at ending the pricing penalty currently built in that gives users no credit/discount for their previous purchase.
Rating: 3 / 5
I’m sure Windows 7 is a good OS. I’ve run the release candidate and it has been much better than Vista. In fact it’s what Vista should have been.
My complaint is the upgrade pricing.
I supported Microsoft by purchasing Vista Ultimate and upgrading from XP for several hundered dollars just a year and a half ago.
And what did I get?
I got to be an unpaid beta tester for their unfinished OS. I got to waste countless hours dealing with Vista problems. And now that most of Vista’s issues seem to have been resolved, I get to pay another couple hundred dollars for the fix know as Windows 7.
And not only that, I get to pay the same amount as those who never purchased Vista, who never had to be an unpaid beta tester for MS, who never had to lose hours of productivity for using an OS that was clearly not ready and should never have been released as it was.
Thanks Microsoft for showing me how you reward your long time loyal customers.
Edit: If you really want to see how ridiculous MS is in their pricing, Google “Windows 7 OEM” and you will find the full (non-upgrade) OEM version of Windows 7 sold by a number of resellers for less than the price of the retail upgrade version.
Rating: 1 / 5
I have Vista 64 Ultimate and ordered the upgrade to Windows 7.
After 2 hours and several reboots I get an error saying:
“This version os Windows could not be installed…”
I ran the upgrade advisor, I checked the online upgrade advisor from the Upgrade DVD and there were no issues.
The setup did not object and I have more than 50GB free space on the C: drive.
Yet, it fails.
Now I have to hunt down the elusive, and often crappy, MS support.
What a waste of money.
If this is M$ “flagship” OS I am not impressed.
Same old MS BS, some old crap.
Get Ubuntu and save yourself $$$.
Rating: 1 / 5
Windows 7 Ultimate has nothing noticeably new. It’s 99% similar to Vista Ultimate. I upgraded my Windows Ultimate Vista to Windows 7 Ultimate and let me tell you, DON’T DO IT! I’m still searching for new things on Windows 7 and after a week of searching, still found nothing new.
Windows 7
will take off the Dreamscene,
will not be compatible to old games,
will take longer to load at start,
has Aero that is very annoying will automically control windows even though you don’t want for it to do that,
will not be compatible to OneCare, but will give you Microsoft Security Essential, which is a downgrade of OneCare,
will remove Tinker and Hold’em games from Vista Ultimate,
and still Windows Media Center does not support Blu-Ray.
I already found problems with it:
you can’t move files by dragging in folders, they are organized forcefully
and most downloads that take long always get runtime error.
If you have Vista Ultimate, keep it. It’s way more better. If you upgrade to Windows 7, it will be like DOWNGRADING. Plus, it will be very hard to go back to Vista Ultimate once you have upgraded to Windows 7. I DEFINITELY don’t recommend Windows 7. Just wait until the next OS comes out, maybe it will be the one who would have the noticeable upgrades.
Rating: 1 / 5
If you’re looking at Ultimate, chances are it’s for one of these three reasons:
1) You have Vista Ultimate and don’t want to lose all your programs/settings (more on this in a moment)
2) You want BitLocker hardware-level encryption (and you’ll need to have hardware that supports it)
3) You regularly work in multiple languages and need to easily switch from one to the other
Unlike Vista Ultimate, Windows 7 Ultimate doesn’t offer DreamScenes or any other eye candy different from its cousins Home and Pro. In fact, if you were a fan of the Windows Vista DreamScenes, you should know that you will be losing them when you step up to Windows 7.
Some very important things you need to know about upgrading:
1) There are two types of upgrade: “in-place” (where a Vista machine upgrades to 7 and you get to keep all your programs) and “clean” (where you lose all your old programs and settings).
2) Anyone going from XP to 7 will have to go “clean”.
3) Anyone going from a different Vista to 7 (for example, Vista Home up to 7 Pro, or Vista Ultimate down to 7 Home) will also have to go “clean”.
If you have to do 2) or 3), all is not lost–I’ll explain in a moment.
Before you even buy a 7 upgrade for your machine, stop by Microsoft’s website for two things:
a) download and run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor. Run it with every device connected to the machine that you’ll ever want to use in 7. It’ll thoroughly examine your machine for any roadblocks and give you good advice about upgrading. Even very new machines will have one or two programs that need some checking.
b) Go to the Windows 7 Compatibility Center and double-check anything that came up negative in the Upgrade Advisor (or didn’t show up at all). This site lists detailed compatibility info on a LOT of different devices.
Anything major, like a video card or sound card driver, I’d recommend double-checking with the manufacturer’s website to be sure. This almost burned me on two of the machines that I upgraded.
Last, make a backup. There’s a free tool called Macrium Reflect that can do this for you.
Do you have to do a “clean” install, but just want to carry over your user accounts and settings? Microsoft makes a program called Windows Easy Transfer that’s already in Vista (and XP users can download it from Microsoft) that will export your accounts and settings and let you import them back again. It’s very easy to use and does a good job of putting your accounts back together again, even going from XP to 7.
Do you have to do the “clean” install, and you don’t want to reinstall all your programs? Laplink has an offer for $19.95 that will let you use a special version of their program “PC Mover” to upgrade one machine one time. Read the documentation in detail.
The most important thing to doing a “clean” install is that in the Upgrade setup you choose “Custom”. Windows will take all of your major files and place them in a folder called “Windows.old”. PC Mover and the Easy Transfer program will use this folder to reconstruct your system from, so this is VERY important.
I wish I had more space to go into detail here…bottom line is, if you plan ahead a bit, upgrading to 7 will go very easily (and if it doesn’t, you’ll have something to fall back on).
Rating: 4 / 5