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Windows Home Premium 7 English Version Upgrade DVD Family Pack

Windows Home Premium 7 English Version Upgrade DVD Family Pack
From: Microsoft
Category: Software

List Price: CDN$ 199.99
Buy New: CDN$ 198.99
as of 3/11/2010 09:18 CST details
You Save: CDN$ 1.00 (1%)



Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 21 reviews
Sales Rank: 3

Format: DVD-ROM
Platform: Windows 7
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Home Upgrade
Operating System: Windows 7
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 1.1

MPN: GFC-00235
Model: GFC-00235
UPC: 882224898232
EAN: 0882224898232
ASIN: B002MT21N6

Release Date: October 22, 2009
Shipping: Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 weeks

Features:
  » Install Windows 7 Home Premium on up to three PCs in your household
  » Windows 7 Home Premium makes it easy to create a home network and share all of your favorite photos, videos, and music--you can even watch, pause, rewind, and record TV
  » 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
  » Easily create a home network and connect your PCs to a printer with HomeGroup

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Editorial Reviews:

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Get three Windows 7 Premium licenses in one convenient package. Windows 7 Home Premium makes it easy to create a home network and share all of your favorite photos, videos, and music. You can even watch, pause, rewind, and record TV. Get the best entertainment experience with Windows 7 Home Premium. Do you use your PC for work, run Windows XP programs, or require enhanced security? Consider Windows 7 Professional.

The Windows 7 Home Premium Family Pack

Today, most homes have more than one PC in them. When you run Windows 7 on more than one PC on a home network, you can do more with features like HomeGroup. HomeGroup allows people to connect to PCs on their network and share files, music and photos with the whole family--easily. The Windows 7 Family Pack is an easy and affordable way to get all your PCs in your household running Windows 7 through licensing to install Windows 7 Home Premium on up to 3 PCs.

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.

The best entertainment experience on your PC

Easiest Windows to use ever

  • Simplify your PC with new navigation features like Aero Shake, Jump Lists, and Snap.
  • Customize Windows to look and feel the way you like by changing themes and taskbar programs.
  • Setting up a home network and connecting to printers and devices is easier than ever.
  • Windows 7 Home Premium supports the latest hardware and software.

It's faster

  • Designed to make your PC sleep and resume quicker.
  • Takes full advantage of 64-bit PC hardware and memory.
  • Connecting to wireless networks is fast and easy.

Best PC entertainment experience

  • Watch, pause, rewind, and record TV with Windows Media Center.
  • Blu-ray read/write support for data files.
  • Includes integrated video and Dolby audio codecs.
  • Offers large screen support.

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.

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.

Product Comparison




Customer Reviews:
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5 out of 5 stars Windows 7 Home Premium   March 10, 2010
Andre Kocsis (Clinton, ON, CA)
Installation is a breeze. Bought item to install on my wife's, daughter's and an aunt's computer, upgrades were quick and painless.


4 out of 5 stars Great OS   March 2, 2010
LS1PWRD (Ottawa, ON)
Easy and fast to upgrade from XP . Definitely overpriced as far as Operating Systems go but what can you do? Microsoft has us over the proverbial barrel.


1 out of 5 stars WARNING!!!!   February 24, 2010
Elie Zakaria
Windows 7 Home Premium only supports a system with single CPU, it could be multicore no problems, but if you have two physical CPU's it will only detect one and disregard the second crippling your system.
Only professional and Ultimate support two physical CPU's.

This is false advertising because no where on the box does it mention single or dual CPU support.

Buyer beware!



4 out of 5 stars Windows 7 Home Premium Family Pack   February 12, 2010
Scott G. Graham
It's sad that Microsoft optioned to make this a temporary offering. It's perfect for the home with 3 installations.


2 out of 5 stars Be warned if upgrading from XP   February 12, 2010
PNug (Seattle)
When upgrading from XP to Windows 7, be aware that the instructions included with the upgrade have you do a "Custom" install. This wipes the drive clean and installs the new OS.

What Microsoft fails to tell you is that the authentication key supplied only works for upgrades - which means to authenticate, the machine has to recognize that you previously had XP on the system. Even though you started the upgrade with XP happily running, Windows 7 overwrote all that and you now have the clean install of 7.

I'm currently trying to get Microsoft to fix this problem, but I'm having little luck. I'm not interested in paying for support when I don't need support, I just need their system to recognize that I had XP on my machine at the start.



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