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Windows 7 applets
But Wait, There’s More
You want more? Oh, there’s more. In addition to the hundreds of other features and changes that are included in Windows 7, Microsoft is also busy expanding the Windows ecosystem to include products and services that extend Windows 7’s capabilities or, in some cases, fall outside of the traditional PC desktop. We cover a number of these technologies in the book because they do indeed complete the Windows 7 experience.
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Figure 12: Windows 7 applets
But Wait, There’s More
You want more? Oh, there’s more. In addition to the hundreds of other features and
changes that are included in Windows 7, Microsoft is also busy expanding the Windows
ecosystem to include products and services that extend Windows 7’s capabilities or, in
some cases, fall outside of the traditional PC desktop. We cover a number of these tech-
nologies in the book because they do indeed complete the Windows 7 experience.
Windows Live Essentials and Windows Live Services
A few years before Microsoft shipped Windows 7, it began separately reevaluating the
relationship between its PC operating system and the various online products and services
it was then offering through its MSN brand. Executives at the company determined that
they wanted to bring the company’s Windows, online, and mobile experiences together
in ways that were seamless but wouldn’t run into any of the antitrust issues presented by
previous integration strategies regarding Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player.
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The result was Windows Live, a set of online products and services that extend the
Windows user experience in exciting and unique ways. The sheer number of Windows
Live services is somewhat daunting, and complicating matters is the fact that there are
other Microsoft Live services, including Office Live, Games for Windows Live, Xbox Live,
Live Mesh, and more.
And of course, Microsoft has removed several applications from Windows 7 and now ships
them as part of the Windows Live Essentials suite (see Figure 13). This way, they can be
updated more frequently—and Microsoft can stave off the antitrust regulators.
Figure 13: Windows Live Essentials
Microsoft’s Live services are discussed in detail in Chapter 23, and we cover the vari-
ous applications in the Windows Live Essentials suite throughout the book.
Zune
While Microsoft continues to evolve its Windows Media platform and includes an impres-
sive new Windows Media Player in Windows 7, the company seems to realize that the
future lies elsewhere. For this reason, it has been pushing its Zune digital media platform
on the side as well; and from what we can tell, the Zune—shown in Figure 14—has enough
important unique features that it’s a viable Windows Media replacement. Heck, it may
even offer the iPod serious competition—someday.
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Figure 14: Microsoft Zune
The Zune is so important it gets its own chapter, Chapter 14.
Windows Mobile
Microsoft has been plying the PDA and smartphone market for almost 15 years, but recent
versions of Windows Mobile are finally starting to get interesting. Looking at running a
version of Windows that can fit in your pocket? Windows Mobile might be exactly what
you’re looking for. Windows Mobile 6.5 is shown in Figure 15.
Figure 15: Windows Mobile 6.5
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We provide a short overview of Windows Mobile in Chapter 19.
Windows Home Server
While Windows 7 offers seamless network-based sharing, it doesn’t really offer any central-
ized management of your PCs, media, documents, and other data. That’s where Windows
Home Server comes in. And despite the name, Windows Home Server is as simple to use
as it is powerful. The Windows Home Server admin console can be seen in Figure 16.
Figure 16: Windows Home Server helps you consolidate your media and data to a central
location on your home network.
Windows Home Server is the subject of Chapter 10.
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Our Promise to You
We’ve barely scratched the surface of the changes you’ll find in Windows 7 and covered
throughout this book. But as noted previously, Microsoft—and Windows 7—isn’t stand-
ing still. For this reason, no book, even one as comprehensive as we’ve tried to make
this one, can cover it all. So join us online, at Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows
(www. insupersite.com ) and Rafael Rivera’s Within Windows (www.withinwindows
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.com). In this way, Windows 7 Secrets is a living document, one that will be updated on
an ongoing basis online. And if you’re looking for an even more direct relationship, fol-
low us on Twitter. Paul can be found at @thurrott, and Rafael is at @WithinRafael. See
you online!
- Part I
Surviving Setup
Chapter 1: Selecting the Right Windows 7 Edition
Chapter 2: Installing or Upgrading to Windows 7
Chapter 3: Hardware and Software Compatibility
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Selecting the
Right Windows 7 1
Edition
In This Chapter
Basic differences between the Windows 7 product editions
Which Windows 7 product editions you can safely avoid
Differences between the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7
Determining the best Windows 7 for you
Choosing between the home and business versions
Choosing between Windows 7 Home Premium and Professional
Features available in all Windows 7 versions
Choosing Windows 7 Ultimate
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I f you haven’t purchased Windows 7 yet—or you’d like to know whether or not it’s worth
upgrading from the version you do have to a more capable version—this chapter is for
you. Here, we’ll explain the differences between the many Windows 7 product editions
and help you pick the version that makes the most sense for you.
The Way We Were: XP and Vista
Product Editions
Back in 2001, life was easy: Microsoft released Windows XP in just two product editions,
Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional Edition. The difference between
the products was fairly obvious, and with its enhanced feature set, XP Pro was the more
expensive and desirable version, as one might expect.
Over time, however, Microsoft muddied the waters with a wealth of new XP product edi-
tions. Three major product editions were added: Windows XP Media Center Edition (which
received three major releases and one minor update between 2002 and 2005), Windows
XP Tablet PC Edition (which received two major releases between 2002 and 2005), and
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, which took most of XP Pro’s feature set and brought
it to the x64 hardware platform. Other XP versions, such as XP Embedded and XP Starter
Edition, can’t really be considered mainstream products, because they targeted specific
usage scenarios and were never made broadly available to consumers.
Most PCs sold during Windows XP’s lifetime were 32-bit computers based on
Intel’s x86 platform. While the industry was widely expected to make the
jump to 64-bit computing at some point, that leap came from an unexpected
place: Intel’s tiny competitor AMD developed the so-called x64 platform, which
is essentially a 64-bit version of the aging x86 platform. The x64-based PCs are
completely compatible with x86 software, and though all PCs sold today are, in
fact, x64-compatible, most PC operating systems to date (including Windows
Vista) were sold in 32-bit versions for compatibility reasons. (Even Intel is on
board: though the x64 platform was created by AMD, all of Intel’s PC-compatible
chips are now x64 compatible as well.)
Though not as technically elegant as so-called “native” 64-bit platforms like
the ill-fated Itanium, the x64 platform does provide all of the benefits of true
64-bit computing, including most importantly a flat 64-bit memory address
space that obliterates the 4GB memory “ceiling” in the 32-bit world. For the
purposes of this book, when we refer to 64-bit computing, we mean x64. And
as we look ahead to the generation of PCs that will ship during Windows 7’s
lifetime, what we’re going to see, predominantly, are x64 versions of the OS.
That said, Windows 7 comes in both x86 and x64 variants, as we’ll discuss later
in this chapter.
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