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Additional features include support for Multilingual User Interface packages, BitLocker Drive Encryption, and UNIX application support. Not available through retail or OEM channels, this edition is distributed through SA. As a result, it includes several SA-only benefits, including a license allowing the operating of diskless nodes and activation via Volume License Key . Starter Edition does not allow users to run programs designed for windows XP but Home premium can do that by supporting XP mode. This is a lower version of Windows and does not have the aero glass feature and allows you to get just the basic view.
Windows 7 Home Premium is a huge improvement over Windows 7 starter edition. Home Premium can do all the things that starter edition cannot do. Users can easily create Homegroup in home premium edition which allows them to connect different PCs to a printer. This artifical limitation is purely a price thing trying to release a cheap enough windows that can compete with a free product, linux. Most of the people I train are unaware that there WERE different versions of Windows XP, much less WHAT they were.
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And one feature that is particularly annoying is the inability to change your desktop look. Windows 7 Starter Edition may be the most evil version of Windows as to date. I've seen all that - that doesn't give me any comparison or features of Starter vs Home. Home premium allows you to watch internet TV but Starter edition does not. Starter edition does not have Homegroup feature while Home premium has.
Modern netbooks are more than capable of running Win 7 HP and will simply feel throttled with Win 7 SE on. I’m waiting to buy a new netbook with Win 7 on, but I will only buy if I can get the HP version. …and the last time you purchased a netbook it had Windows XP Home Edition and cost $350, then you’re obviously going to gravitate toward the Windows 7 Starter Edition. And then you’ll probably be dissapointed at the limitations.
What is the difference between Windows 7 and Windows 10?
Microsoft does a very poor job of differentiating between versions. When people get pissed they tend to ‘take what they want’ So…. The more I read about Win 7 SE on current netbooks, the more I think it’s an utter waste of time.
I’m a software trainer, and the thing Microsoft really misunderstood with Vista is that people are stupid. They heard that Vista sucks, and they believed it. There are a variety of reasons for that , but still, it became the common knowledge that Vista was a failure.
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Besides a suite of security tools, Windows 10 also offers more features. … Unlike previous versions of the OS, Windows 10 offers automatic updates by default, to keep systems more secure. Mainstream support for all Windows 7 editions ended on January 13, 2015, and extended support ended on January 14, 2020. After that, the operating system ceased receiving further support. Professional and Enterprise volume licensed editions have paid Extended Security Updates available until at most January 10, 2023.
That was more or less okay, since the “Pro” features were more focused on IT departments and pretty seamless for the end user. Sure there will be die hard laptop folk out there that need CPU power and have no issue with the weight etc but netbooks aren’t going to satisfy those folk any day soon anyway. There will be a group of laptop users who will defect, who use the laptop like a millstone and would prefer something far more portable.
Windows 7 Starter Edition
Vista Business and 7 Pro will basically be the same except for the fact that you gain everything from Home Premium now in 7 Pro. Hell when i used a psion i often had 10 apps open at the time and people who tried it found it more responsive than win3.1 running half that amount of apps. If I installed my own OS on the linux version, that OS would also be linux. I am PETRIFIED by Microsoft offering Windows 7 Starter Edition on netbooks. The more I think about it, the more I think it’s possibly the worst decision Microsoft has ever made.
An alternative for computer makers is to install Windows 7 Home Premium, which will have most of the features users will expect of the operating system, including the ability to multitask. It will also cost more and could drive up the cost of netbooks. Which would be fine if netbooks were brand new devices. But low cost mini-laptops running Windows XP Home Edition or various Linux distributions have been around for over a year now. Windows 7 Home Premium can be sued for creating home network and you can easily share photos, videos and music.
Only Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate were widely available at retailers. The other editions focus on other markets, such as the software development world or enterprise use. All editions support 32-bit IA-32 CPUs and all editions except Starter support 64-bit x64 CPUs.
The operating system is also more secure and offers plenty of extra eye candy like live previews of running programs from the taskbar. And the beta version is based on Windows 7 Ultimate, which will be the top of the line version of the operating system. This option is always available and is required for all versions of Windows XP.
Well, whatever you mean well just take both of these into consideration. You can always buy your netbooks with Starter or Home Premium, and pay to upgrade them to another version, like Business or Ultimate, after the fact. MS is not setting up 7 Pro to be the same as Enterprise. Enterprise and Ultimate will now be the same, with Ultimate being the retail version of Enterprise for those that want VHD booting support, etc.
So either way you turn it, 7 is too expensive, it looks bad when you see the whole price of the netbook. So the first most important selling point in a netbook is price, which will be a no go with Windows then, unless MS really lowers their prices and comes down from their high horses. Is there a chance you can return your new computer? That’s what I would do, even if just for store credit or to exchange for something else.
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