Windows 7

Only a week to go now folks.  So the big question is will Windows 7 really fix your Vista woes or will you be stock piling those Windows XP licences.  Well in anticipation of this conversation with our helpdesk we thought we would take a look.

Over the next few weeks we will explore the pro’s and cons, and the features of Windows 7 to begin to build a picture that will give you the best possible overview of the latest edition to the Windows family.

So where to be begin.  Well first there is the edition you want.  Like Vista there a multitude of product versions to choose from:

Home Basic is not available outside of emerging markets like India so we don’t need to say any more

Starter is a low end product designed for Netbooks.  Along with only being 32-Bit Microsoft have stipulated a few requirements for the platform it’s on.  It must have an Intel Atom processor, 1Gb or less of RAM, and 256GB or less of hard disk space.

Enterprise is only available to Enterprise volume licence customers.  So if you buy your PC’s with Windows already on them (OEM) then ignore this one two

That leaves three Windows versions which is going to make this choice a lot easier.  The charts below give you an overall feature comparison and in the next entry of this series we’ll start to discuss some of these features in more depth

Hardware Support

Enterprise Features

In the next edition we will be looking at migration and upgrade options