If the answer to these question is yes, you should buy Windows 7 Professional. It's the main version for most people, for home PCs and laptops.īut ask yourself these questions: do you also take your laptop to the office? Do you need to run legacy (read: old and obscure) applications? Do you want automatic file backups built into Windows? It's the version that'll do everything you expect Windows to do: run Windows Media Centre, network your home computers and devices, support multi-touch technologies and dual-monitor setups, Aero Peek, and so on and so forth. If you're buying a PC for use at home, it's highly likely you want Windows 7 Home Premium. Which version of Windows 7 should you buy? So we're going to answer one question, once and for all: There are six versions of Windows 7: Windows 7 Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate, and it predictably transpires that confusion surrounds them, like fleas on a manky old cat. The prize for confusing the everyman goes, this year, to Microsoft.

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