Which Edition Is Right for You?
Home Premium, Professional or Ultimate? The Windows® 7 operating system has a range of editions designed to help businesses of all sizes work more effectively. Use the chart below to compare the features in each Windows 7 edition.
| Home Premium | Professional | Ultimate | |
| Discover improved desktop navigation | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Quickly and easily launch programs and find the documents you use most often | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Get a faster, easier and safer Web experience with the Internet Explorer® 8 Internet browser | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Easily create a home network and connect your PCs to a printer with HomeGroup | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Watch, pause, rewind and record TV on your PC* | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Automatically send your documents to the right printer | Yes | Yes | |
| Schedule either a periodic backup or an entire system image | Yes | Yes | |
| Run many older Windows XP productivity applications in Windows XP Mode* | Yes | Yes | |
| Connect to company networks easily and more securely | Yes | Yes | |
| Easily recover your data with automatic backups | Yes | Yes | |
| Encrypt your files and folders to help protect confidential information | Yes | Yes | |
| Help protect data on your PC and portable storage devices against loss or theft | Yes | ||
| Works in one of 35 different languages | Yes |
*Additional hardware may be required.