so today I have an unboxing that is actually a leadin into something more
interesting okay so I have a copy of Windows 7 Professional this is a retail
copy it is an upgrade designed for
Windows Vista to be upgraded but it says right on the side all the additions of
Windows XP and Windows Vista qualify you
to upgrade you must accept the enclosed license terms it's got some system
requirements all that good stuff so let's get this thing open and the reason
I'm opening this is because I want to test if you can install an upgrade copy
of Windows 7 without actually having
another operating system already installed and no one seems to know yet
whether you have to actually install Windows Vista or whether you just need
to put in your product key when you're installing Windows 7 so you slide the
retail box out of the uh the little slip here which also shows you all the
differences between the different editions of Windows 7 so Home Premium
professional ultimate with professional you get run many Windows XP okay you get
Windows XP Mode you get support for a domain and you can recover your data
easily with automatic backup to your Homer business Network then with
ultimate you get bit Locker encryption and you also get your choice of 35
languages okay there we go so then we have a little uh seal on the top which
is made in Puerto Rico okay we've got our Windows 7 Logo there Microsoft okay
it's fairly fairly bog standard I would say so let's rip that baby open all
right here you go if you are upgrading from Windows XP run the Windows upgrade
advisor save your files to an external hard drive you will need to manually
reinstall your programs and you want to select custom Advance this to me
indicates that there's a pretty good chance that we can just install the
upgrade fresh because they're telling you if you are installing from Windows
XP you will need to completely reformat your computer okay so that's a that's a
that's a good indicator all right then welcome to your PC simplified this is
the little uh sure about Windows 7 some
of the key new features all that good stuff there's your product key and then
there are two Windows 7 discs one with
32-bit software and the other with 64-bit software thank you for checking
out my video blog on my Windows 7 Professional upgrade unboxing