Everything you need for work and home

Windows 7 Professional includes all the Home Premium features you love and the business features your work demands. Connect to company networks easily and more securely and share files across the various PCs in your home. In addition, you can run many Windows XP productivity programs in Windows XP Mode and recover your data easily with automatic back-ups to your home or business network.

This product includes both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

Reasons to buy

Use XP Mode: Run many existing productivity and business programs designed for Windows XP – additional necessary software is available for download, free-of-charge from Microsoft.

Save time and money resolving IT issues: Take advantage of the powerful diagnostics and troubleshooters built into Action Center to resolve many computer problems on your own.

Interact with any compatible device connected to your computer: See device pictures and status and run common tasks from a single window.

Connect multiple PCs, with or without a server: Use Domain Join to connect PCs quickly and more securely to your wired or wireless domain network.

Automatically back up your files: Protect your data from user error, hardware failure, and other problems. You can back up your files to an external hard drive, secondary hard drive, writable CD or DVD, or to a network location.

Share files across the various PCs in your home: Use HomeGroup to connect your PCs running Windows 7 to a single printer. Specify exactly what you want to share from each PC with all the PCs in the HomeGroup.

Find virtually anything on your PC – from documents to photos to e-mail: Just click on the Start button, and enter a word or few letters in the name or file you want into the search box, and you’ll get an organized list of results.

Find the right printer: Use Location Aware Printing to identify your printer when moving between the office and home.

Before you buy

Running Windows Vista?
If you have Windows Vista, you can purchase Windows 7 Upgrade versions. You can do a clean install (back up your files, clean install, and reinstall your applications) or an in -place upgrade (Windows 7 installs over Windows Vista).

Running Earlier Versions?
If you have Windows XP or Windows 2000, you can purchase Windows 7 Upgrade versions. But you must back up your files, clean install, and reinstall your applications.

System requirements

Processor
1GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

Video card
DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM 1.0 or later driver.

Memory
1GB RAM (32-bit) / 2GB RAM (64-bit)

Hard disk
16GB available disk space (32-bit) / 20 GB (64-bit)

Other

1For some Windows Media Center functionality, a TV tuner and additional hardware may be required. Windows Touch and Windows Tablet require specific hardware.

HomeGroup requires a network and PCs with Windows 7.

Product functionality and graphics may vary based on your system configuration. Some features may require advanced or additional hardware.

Windows XP Mode requires an additional 1GB of RAM, an additional 15GB of available disk space, and a processor capable of hardware virtualization, with Intel-VT or AMD-V turned on.

DVD/CD authoring requires a compatible optical drive. Depending on resolution, video playback may require additional memory and advanced graphics hardware. Internet access required to use certain features (fees may apply).

Music and sound require audio output.

Some features in earlier Windows versions are not included in Windows 7. Get similar programs including Windows Live Mail™, Photo Gallery, Messenger and Movie Maker for free through Windows Live Essentials, at download.live.com.

Make sure your PC is compatible with Windows 7. Download and run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor.