Microsoft Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade [Home Premium to Professional]

Microsoft Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade [Home Premium to Professional]
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Product information Brand: Microsoft
Publisher: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Model: 7KC-00040
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Features
  • Move up to Windows 7 Professional from Windows 7 Home Premium with Windows Anytime Upgrade
  • Watch, pause, rewind, and record TV on your PC
  • Easily create a home network and connect your PCs to a printer with HomeGroup
  • Run many Windows XP productivity programs in Windows XP Mode
  • Connect to company networks easily and more securely with Domain Join
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Product Description: With Microsoft Windows Pro 7 Operating System Software Professional, 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: If you want more features than you currently have in your existing edition of Windows 7, you can upgrade to another edition using Windows Anytime Upgrade. Upgrades from Windows 7 Home Premium edition to Windows 7 Professional edition.

With Windows Anytime Upgrade, you can upgrade to a more advanced edition of Windows 7 in as little as 10 minutes. Click to enlarge.

Windows Anytime Upgrade

No disks, no delays. And no leaving the house: With Windows Anytime Upgrade, you can upgrade to a more advanced edition of Windows 7 in as little as 10 minutes. That way, you get to take advantage of extra features while keeping your current programs, files, and settings intact.

In the past, upgrading Windows could be a bit of a hassle. In Windows 7, the software you need comes preinstalled. All you have to do is purchase an upgrade key from Microsoft or another authorized retailer to unlock those shiny new features.

Get more now. Move up to Windows 7 Professional.

Windows 7 Professional has everything you need for work and home. Run many Windows XP productivity programs in Windows XP Mode2 and keep important information safer with file encryption and automatic back-ups. Connect to business networks and move more easily between business and home networks. And with all the great entertainment features of Windows Home Premium, like Windows Media Center, it’s great for home as well as for business.

Simplifies everyday tasks

  • Improved desktop navigation features like Snap, Peek and Shake, make it easier to manage all of your open windows.
  • Creating a home network has never been easier. You can even share files and printers with all the PCs with Windows 7 on the network.
  • Find virtually anything on your PC--from documents to songs to email--just by typing a word or two with Windows Search.

Works the way you want

  • Designed to make your PC sleep and resume quicker.
  • Takes full advantage of the power and multi-tasking capabilities of the latest 64-bit PCs.
  • Windows XP Mode gives you the business flexibility you need.

Makes new things possible

  • Watch, pause, rewind and record TV with Windows Media Center.
  • Includes integrated video and Dolby audio codecs.

* Requires either OEM pre-installation or post-purchase download of Windows XP Mode (which runs on Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate) and a virtualization technology such as Windows Virtual PC. Customers can download Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC free-of-charge from http://www.windows.com/business/downloads/ when available.


Windows 7 Professional. Everything you need for work and home.

With Windows 7 Professional, fewer walls stand between you and your success. You can run many Windows XP productivity programs in Windows XP Mode and recover data easily with automatic backups to your home or business network. You can also connect to company networks effortlessly and more securely with Domain Join. With all the exciting entertainment features of Windows Home Premium, it's a great choice for home and for business. Need to use multiple languages on your PC or help protect your data with enhanced BitLocker security? Get Windows 7 Ultimate.

More work, more play, and more of everything in between. Click to enlarge.

Manage lots of open programs, documents, and browser windows easily with thumbnail and full-screen previews of open windows. Click to enlarge.

With Snap you can arrange two windows side-by-side just by dragging them to opposite sides of your screen. Click to enlarge.

Open files you use regularly in just two clicks with Jump Lists on the improved taskbar.

Simplifies everyday tasks

  • Improved desktop navigation features like Snap, Peek and Shake, make it easier to manage all of your open windows.
  • Creating a home network has never been easier. You can even share files and printers with all the PCs with Windows 7 on the network.
  • Find virtually anything on your PC – from documents to songs to email – just by typing a word or two with Windows Search.

Works the way you want

  • Designed to make your PC sleep and resume quicker.
  • Takes full advantage of the power and multi-tasking capabilities of the latest 64-bit PCs.

Makes new things possible

  • Watch, pause, rewind and record TV with Windows Media Center.
  • Includes integrated video and Dolby audio codecs.

Simplifies Everyday Tasks

Simple to use

Preview
Manage lots of open programs, documents, and browser windows easily with thumbnail and full-screen previews of open windows.

Pin
Open files and get around your PC faster with the improved taskbar. You can easily pin programs you use often to the taskbar and launch them in just one click.

Windows 7 lets you peek behind open windows to get a quick look at your desktop. Click to enlarge.

Instantly locate and open virtually any file on your PC right from the Start menu with Windows Search. Click to enlarge.

Jump Lists
Open files you use regularly in just two clicks with Jump Lists on the improved taskbar.

Snap
Windows 7 has simple new ways to manage open windows. For example, with Snap you can arrange two windows side-by-side just by dragging them to opposite sides of your screen.

Peek and Shake
Windows 7 lets you peek behind open windows to get a quick look at your desktop.

Windows Search
Instantly locate and open virtually any file on your PC, from documents to emails to songs, right from the Start menu, with Windows Search.

Easy to connect

Setting up wireless connections is easier with consistent, one-click connections to available networks. Click to enlarge.

Enjoy the photos, music, and videos on your home PC when you're away from home with remote media streaming. Click to enlarge.

Windows Touch makes PCs with touch screens easier and more intuitive to use. Click to enlarge.

Wireless setup
With Windows 7, setting up wireless connections is easier with consistent, one-click connections to available networks, whether those networks are based on Wi-Fi, mobile broadband, dial-up, or corporate VPN.

HomeGroup
Connect Windows 7 PCs on a home network in just four clicks and easily get to the photos, music, and files on each one--even share printers--with HomeGroup.

Easy to browse the web

Internet Explorer 8
Visual search helps you quickly find the information you want by adding visual cues and previews to search results from top search providers including Live Search, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Amazon, and others.

Internet Explorer 8
Use Web slices to conveniently keep up with changes on frequently updated websites, like eBay auctions or traffic sites, directly from the IE8 toolbar.

Easy to communicate and share

Windows Live Photo Gallery
Windows Live Photo Gallery makes share your photos to your favorite photo site easy.

Windows Live Mail
Windows Live Mail makes managing multiple email accounts easy.

Windows Live Family Safety
Keep your child safe by managing what sites they can visit and who they can send/receive emails and im communications from.

Note: Windows Live components need to be downloaded separately.

Works The Way You Want

Faster and More Reliable

Resume from sleep
We designed Windows 7 to help PCs sleep and resume from sleep more quickly by improving the way Windows 7 manages drivers, programs, and power.

Faster and more reliable
We reduced the amount of memory your PC needs for open windows and to execute commands to help it be more responsive to commands.

Fewer clicks and less interruptions

Turn your PC into a TV with Windows Media Center, and enjoy your favorite videos and music with Windows Media Player. Click to enlarge.

Makes New Things Possible

Media on your terms

Windows Media Center
Turn your PC into a TV with Windows Media Center.

Windows Media Center
Watch shows for free when and where you want with Internet TV.

Manage Backup and Restore and other features through Action Center. Click to enlarge.

Search, organize, and edit files across a network in the same way you would a single folder.Click to enlarge.

DirectX 11
DirectX 11 technology delivers breathtaking game graphics so real, it's unreal.

New ways to engage

Windows Touch
Windows Touch makes PCs with touch screens easier and more intuitive to use.

Media on your terms

Windows Media Player
More and more consumer electronics, from TVs to digital photo frames, can be connected to home networks. With Play To in Windows 7, you'll be able to easily send music, photos, videos from your PC to a networked device throughout your home.

You can enjoy the photos, music, and videos on your home PC when you're away from home with remote media streaming.

Work anywhere

Location Aware Printing
Windows 7 will automatically pick the right printer for you when you move from home to work networks.

Work anywhere with less effort.

  • Get connected in three clicks wherever there's a wireless network connection.
  • Keep documents on your PC and on network servers in sync automatically.
  • Your PC will automatically use the printer you prefer for whatever network you're on.
  • Simplify making presentations special settings that keep your PC from sleeping and turn off messages, notifications, and screen savers.
  • Instantly locate virtually any file, email, or document on your PC just by typing a word or two.
  • Get around your PC faster with the improved taskbar.
  • Open programs you use regularly in one click and files you use regularly in just two.
  • Manage lots of open programs, documents, and browser windows easily with thumbnail and full-screen previews of open windows.
  • Manage multiple email accounts, including Hotmail, Gmail, AOL, and Yahoo! Mail Plus, all in one place with one simple program.
  • Get to the files, photos, and music on any PC with Windows 7 in the house from any other.
  • Print to any printer in the house from any PC with Windows 7 in the house.

Safeguard your hard work.

  • Advanced Backup and Restore makes it easier to keep your work safely backed up to external or network drives and accessible if you need it.
  • File encryption helps keep proprietary and confidential information on a PC secure if it is lost or stolen.
  • Preserve your investment in programs designed for Windows XP with Windows XP Mode.
  • Windows Internet Explorer 8 helps keep your PC safer from malware and you safer from fraudulent websites designed to fool you into divulging private information.
  • Easily add your PC to a secured, managed, network with domain join capabilities.
  • Group policy controls help administrators more easily and effectively manage the security and configuration of multiple PCs.

Customer Reviews

What this upgrade does

by J. Jaeger 2009-11-13, 53 people found this review helpful
I don't see much commentary here about the actual product performance. There is a lot of confusion about this upgrade in the retail outlets, so I thought I'd explain to those with questions.

I researched Windows 7 before I bought my computer, and knew I wanted Win 7 Professional in case I wanted to run XP programs. Most retail outlets only had Win 7 Home Premium installed on their computers. The computer stores had the Win 7 Pro computers on backorder. Through some investigation at Microsoft, I found out that all versions of Win 7 are preinstalled, and you just need to get a key to "unlock" the higher versions. This is that key.

It took a total of 14 minutes to install this upgrade on my new computer. The hardest part was typing in the multi-digit key. (In other words, not hard!) It ran for 12 minutes, and then it was ready to go!

I haven't tried the features of Win 7 Pro to rate it, but this upgrade works as promised.

This is how you upgrade from Win 7 Home Premium to Win 7 Professional

by Roger J. Buffington 2009-12-28, 10 people found this review helpful
Most laptops/notebooks seem to ship with Windows 7 Home Premium rather than Windows 7 Professional. That is probably fine for most users. However, if you need your Windows 7 Notebook to be part of a business domain network, you need Windows 7 Professional. This upgrade is how you accomplish the change.

It turns out that Windows 7 Home Premium already contains Windows 7 Professional; it is simply not enabled. When you buy this upgrade you are getting an upgrade key. No disk, just a key sticker and very brief instructions. Key it in pursuant to the laughably simple instructions and within minutes you will be running Windows 7 Professional. One caveat: apparently you cannot upgrade from Windows 7 32 to Windows 7 64 bit. This will affect very few users as I do not believe that hardly any computers are shipping with 32 bit Windows 7. Nor should they. Windows 7 64 bit is very compatible with existing 32 bit software, and in the future we can expect lots of 64 bit software and we all want to be ready for it.

Some have criticized Microsoft for charging for the upgrade from Home Premium to Professional, but my opinion (which is only that) is that Microsoft makes its living by selling operating system software and this is one way for them to do it. At least the upgrade is easy, painless, and quick. RJB.

Super!

by Edgar H. Tan, MD 2010-01-02, 6 people found this review helpful
I have been pissed with Vista that anything else would be better....but this is not simply the case for Win7...this OS is simply awesome with features I did not regret upgrading all my vista OS to windows 7....just do it and you won't regret a bit....it is simply better, faster and makes you achieve your task faster...go go...just grab one!

Worked great for me!!!!!

by S. Gillespie 2009-12-12, 8 people found this review helpful
Purchased 2 Anytime upgrades to Windows Pro from Home Premium. Worked perfectly for both a new laptop and a new desktop. It appears that the full version of Windows Pro (and maybe Ultimate) was installed on these machines and crippled until an appropriate key is entered. No download, no agonizing conversion,--quick and easy and I love it!

well worth the price

by Robert J. Sandberg 2009-12-15, 5 people found this review helpful
Win 7's Virtual XP allowed me to run all of my old software and hardware that would not operate under Vista and Win 7 Home & Student. This upgrade worked great for me.

Very disappointed - be cautious

by Indra 2009-11-30, 36 people found this review helpful
I recently bought a laptop with Win 7 Home premium. The applications i work on, run on XP and i thought by upgrading my laptop OS to win 7 professional i'll be able to run in XP mode and install all those applications. I ordered an anytime upgrade and upgraded to Win 7 professional.
Then i started exploring how to run on XP mode. I came across a tool which checks the hardware if it is compatible to run the XP mode and to my disappointment the tool reported that my processor doesn't support XP mode.

I don't understand if an "Intel core2 duo T6660" (one of the latest) processor is not supported to run XP mode, which other processor is supported ?

I suggest those who want to upgrade from Home premium to professional, check your processor if it supports XP mode at all. I think this is the reason that the laptops are not preinstalled with Windows 7 Professional.

AARRRGGG: read the fine print

by He who spends too much 2009-11-02, 29 people found this review helpful
If you're like me you skimmed through Microsoft's own Windows 7 comparison chart, and you saw no real benefit in picking W7 Professional or Ultimate over Home Premium.

What M$ doesn't tell you on that comparison chart (or at least the 2 or 3 I saw) is the fact that you'll need the Professional or Ultimate edition to take advantage of more than one processor. I recall Microsoft pulling this same con with Windows 98/XP & NT or 2000, back when Windows was my primary OS.

I know the average home user isn't going to have more than one processor in their computer, but in a day & age when EVERY operating system under the sun *not* made by Microsoft sets no limitations on exactly how efficient/powerful your computer can be, you'd expect Microsoft to grow up and follow suit.

I like Windows 7 and I'm going to keep dual booting it on my (2x Processor/8x core) Mac Pro, but this nonsense reminded me of part of the reason why I switched to Apple & Linux/Solaris in the first place.

Windows Pro does not run XP without unique processor

by John D. Baxter 2010-02-22, 1 people found this review helpful
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Upgrade
I purchased this product based on the add that microsoft had under an HP machine with a dual core inel processor. It said I could run XP programs. I ordered both the computer and sotware and did not find out it would not run the XP programs. It turns out you can only run XP programs with the i series of intel processors which were not available in early January. I sent the whole package back to Amazon at a cost of over $100. If you want to run XP; be sure your computer has a processor that incorporates the virtual machine technology.

Worth the Money Just for the XP Mode

by S. King 2010-01-30, 2 people found this review helpful
No real problems with Win7 Pro or it's XP mode . . . yet. Had some problems at first getting the XP mode to recognize my printer/scanner. I now have an HP Pavilion dv7-3065dx laptop. It has an AMD processor. You'll want to make sure your processor works with Win7 before you buy. This box does not come with a disc. Somehow Win7 Pro is locked inside your Win7 Home Premium edition and this is just a key code to unlock it. What a rip. Just give the people Win7 Pro to begin with. The XP mode you'll have to download. Another rip, as I am on dial-up. I usually have to download large files at work where I have DSL, save to a thumb drive then install on my computer at home. Hello, Microsoft . . . are you listening? We just want to buy a disc like we use to with everything on it and have it available in case of problems. Now days you have to create all these recovery discs. But, at least I can now run those programs that ran fine under XP but do not yet have the ability to run on Win7 Pro or it's 64 bit version. Also, having never used Vista, everything that you once knew so well in XP has now changed. Get ready to learn Windows all over again for no reason.

XP users BEWARE!!! This may NOT be the "fix" you think it is.

by S. J. Morita 2010-03-09, 0 people found this review helpful
I bought this upgrade program for a newly-purchased computer because I have some well-used graphics software which only work with Windows XP. The upgrade itself was easy, but after I downloaded Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode followed by my software, I discovered that our Windows 7 compatible printer doesn't work with the programs running in Windows XP mode. I called Dell Technical support and was told that my XP Mode software applications will ONLY work with a printer which is INCOMPATIBLE with Windows 7. I hauled our old printer which I know is compatible with Windows XP back to the new computer, but it would NOT install on the new computer in XP Mode either.

I purchased a well-rated book on Windows 7 and have done some searching on the Internet and I see NO reference whatsoever to the requirement to have two printers. To say the very least, I'm more than a little disgusted.
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