so today I am going to be unboxing Microsoft Windows 7 now I realize
there's not really a a whole lot to unbox here there's a lot of uh text
about um making sure that you agree to all of this stuff before you open it so
uh let's get started basically Windows 7 what does it
bring to the table well we've got the Home Premium Edition here today and
there are a couple other editions there's professional and yeah
professional is back folks it's no longer called business and then there's
also the ultimate edition so so with our home premium here we get welcome to your
PC simplified this OEM software may not be delivered under blah blah blah unless
companied okay so we're going to lift pick up these there's your Windows 7
Home Premium it comes in a jewel case that is sealed as per this so uh let's
find out what is in the documentation first so then we'll talk a little bit
about Windows 7 itself it's uh it's about a simpler PC from day one okay
that's great three easy steps let's get personal awesome so they're giving you a
couple little Basics about how to use the OS and they talk through they
actually we should show this I think they talk about a lot of the stuff that they've done to make things better so
first of all the taskbar has been improved you can have multiple Windows
that just pop up to show you all of the different things that you have open in
for example Internet Explorer so you've got three IE Windows open you can
preview them and then click the one you want that's pretty useful they've also
got these uh what are these called jump lists so that gives you common tasks
that you do according to what you use this program
for so they're using Windows Media Player as an example so you frequently
do this and then they're giving you some standard ones as well and then there's
also the desktop preview which is really useful so you drag your mouse down to
the very bottom right and then one of the other things that I really like
about it is Arrow shake so basically all you need to do is shake a window it'll
maximize and then if you shake it again I believe it
minimizes and if you use the arrow snap
you actually just drag a window to the left to the right or to the top to
maximize so if you drag it to the right it takes up the right half of your
screen if you drag it to the left it'll go to the left half of your screen so
that's a pretty cool feature as well oh here's the desktop preview one so it
just makes all of your Windows translucent and you can see the desktop
if you click it then you'll go to the desktop just like the show desktop
button on Windows Vista and Windows XP so Windows Media Center is one of the
big features included with Home Premium and let's talk a little bit about the
differences between Home Premium professional and ultimate so our diss
looks like just our standard uh Windows DVD it's a 64bit Edition here you can
buy it in 32 or 64-bit I'd really recommend going 64-bit at this point
though Windows 7 Professional okay
Windows 7 Professional gives you a couple of options that you don't have
with Home Premium first of all you get XP Mode so XP Mode means that you can
run any XP application in 100% compatibility mode you do need a
virtualization ready proc processor so make sure that you have that but it
looks like a really cool feature the other thing you get with both XP Pro
with XP Pro with seven professional and seven ultimate is the ability to
downgrade to Vista business Vista ultimate respectively or to Windows XP
Pro all you have to do is install Windows XP Pro enter any old serial you
can find it doesn't even have to be a valid one to be perfectly honest with
you then you go to activate it'll fail you call up Microsoft you say Hey I'm
downgrading them you get your Windows you give them your Windows 7 key they'll
give you a valid Windows XP key to use until you're ready to go back to Windows
7 so thank you for checking out my unboxing of Microsoft Windows 7