Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium - US$80.99

Windows 7 Home Premium offers the best entertainment experience on your PC, making the things you do every day easier. With fewer clicks, faster searching, easier browsing, and simpler ways to connect, there's less between you and what you want to do. Windows 7 is designed to improve the performance of your PC, so it's faster, more secure, and more reliable. PCs with Windows 7 simply work the way you want them to work.
1. This product includes both 32- and 64-bit versions for a single computer
2. 90 days of Microsoft Support Services
3. Simplify everyday tasks by finding something instantly, comparing documents side-by-side, or opening your favorite file in just two clicks
4. Enjoy a PC that works the way you want it to with better support for today’s technologies, like 64-bit PC hardware and memory
5. Watch Internet TV; pause, rewind, and record TV, movies, and other video content; or use Touch to interact with your PC in new ways
6. Use Windows Media Player to stream music files on any network-connected device
7. Pin any program to the taskbar and rearrange the icons on the taskbar just by clicking and dragging
8. Easily change backgrounds, window colors, and sounds to reflect your personal style
9. Instantly locate and open virtually any file on your PC, from documents to emails to songs, right from the Start menu, just by typing a word or two, with Windows Search
10. Use HomeGroup to connect all your PCs running Windows 7 to a single printer

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Required Processor 
1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor 
Required Memory 
1 GB RAM (32-bit) / 2 GB RAM (64-bit) 
Required Hard Disk Space 
16 GB available disk space (32-bit) / 20 GB (64-bit); for the download version, an additional 3 GB is required 
Required Media Drive 
DVD/CD authoring requires a compatible optical drive 
Required Connectivity 
Internet access (fees may apply) 
Required Sound Card 
Music and sound require audio output 
Required Video Card 
DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM 1.0 or later driver 
Additional System Requirements 
Product functionality and graphics may vary based on your system configuration. Some features may require advanced or additional hardware.
Depending on resolution, video playback may require additional memory and advanced graphics hardware. 
Other System Requirements 
Additional requirements to use certain features: Internet access (fees may apply). Depending on resolution, video playback may require additional memory and advanced graphics hardware. For some Windows Media Center functionality, a TV tuner and additional hardware may be required. Windows Touch and Tablet PCs require specific hardware. HomeGroup requires a network and PCs running Windows 7. DVD/CD authoring requires a compatible optical drive. Music and sound require audio output. Product functionality and graphics may vary based on your system configuration. Some features may require advanced or additional hardware. 


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Why enterprises will skip Windows 8

Enterprise IT had a good business case for moving off the nearly decade old Windows XP operating system and onto the more modern Windows 7.

Windows 8 is shaping up to be a different story.

The world doesn’t know much about Windows 8 right now, but one thing is clear: The transition from Windows’ traditional desktop user interface (UI) to the new, touch-based Metro UI will make for a rocky transition. Fresh from a Windows 7 upgrade that has moved corporate Windows desktops into the current decade, IT is likely skip Windows 8, even if consumers embrace it.

The effect of even small changes to the desktop UI in enterprise adoption can’t be overstated. Vista introduced moderate changes to the UI that forced a jarring adjustment upon some enterprise users. For example, the new File Explorer, with its concept of libraries, was lost on many workers. Other changes that might seem subtle to more sophisticated information workers, such as the new taskbar, also confused. Paul Shane, IT director at the Philadelphia office of Milliman Inc., said that as he rolled out Windows 7 in the enterprise last year, many users even had trouble navigating the new Start menu. “If it’s not a shortcut on the desktop, they’re in trouble,” he said. Vista had other issues, of course, and IT waited for Microsoft to get it right with Windows 7 before moving forward.

Windows 8 will be far more challenging. Metro grafts a consumer-focused touch-screen user interface that was originally designed for devices running its mobile OS, Windows Phone 7 (devices to which the user can’t practically attach a mouse and keyboard) onto the traditional information worker’s laptop or desktop with its much larger, vertically oriented screen.

Windows 8 is a complete re-engineering of the desktop user interface. Gone is the desktop metaphor, replaced by a “personal mosaic of tiles” similar to the UI of the Windows Phone 7 OS.

This “touch-first” Windows 8 and its Metro UI may be designed to be used with a mouse and keyboard as well as touch, but it’s still not going to be an easy adjustment for enterprise users. It will be like walking into a different house, with a completely different floor plan and décor.

Split personality

Yes, the operating system will let users step down into a “Windows 7 mode” to run their legacy Windows applications, but users will be forced to work in both interfaces, and running two Windows personalities side by side is bound to confuse. Why? Because the two UIs have some very different ways of doing things.

For example, Windows 8 changes how the file system works. In the new file system model data files are associated with applications and can only be manipulated from within applications. Meanwhile, in Windows 7 mode things will operate as they always did.

Choosing Windows 8 will force users to live in a dual-UI world for an extended period of time, as both enterprise and commercial applications will need to be completely rewritten to support HTML 5 and Javascript in order to move into the Metro world. That transition is likely to take many, many years.

Transition pain. Questionable gain.

No doubt IT will be asking why enterprise desktops and laptops need touch right now. With HP’s TouchSmart, its all-in-one touch-screen desktop PC, many of the aspects of touch-screen technology that make it compelling on hand-held tablets and smart phones go unused – and it can be clunky to interact with a large, upright touch-screen monitor. Touch is instead most commonly used only as what Ken Bosley at HP calls “an absolute pointing device,” an alternative way to push a button or select an item on screen.

“Nobody is going to sit down and spend an hour updating a spreadsheet with touch. That's not what it's good for,” said Bosley, product manager for HP’s consumer Desktop Global Business, during a conversation we had aboutemerging touch-screen display technology last year. “Even with web surfing you'll probably type in the URL on the keyboard. But following links you use touch. It's used for very quick types of interactions…to start a DVD or something,” he said.

The TouchSmart is geared toward and sells mostly to consumers.

Windows 8 also wants a wide screen display with a 16 x 9 aspect ratio at 1366 x 768 pixels. A 1024 x 768 or higher display will still work, but not optimally.

Most enterprises don’t change out monitors every time they upgrade or replace personal computers. And to take full advantage of Windows 8, IT will need to buy multi-touch screens –- either integrated, as with the TouchSmart, or separately. And touch screen technology, says HP’s Bosley, adds about $150 to the total cost of a PC purchase.

In evaluating Windows 8, the question IT needs to ask is this: For the extra cost in hardware and training, and the likely disruption, what value will Windows 8 bring to the enterprise user? In the short term, the answer so far looks to be “not too much.”

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Microsoft makes 22 patches to software

Microsoft fixed 22 bugs in its software yesterday and closed several important security holes , including a critical flaw in Bluetooth.

According to the Vole, three of the patches fix problems in Windows The four bulletins patched issues in all versions of the Windows operating system and in Microsoft Visio 2003 Service Pack 3. Only one has been rated "critical." The remaining three are just "important."

Microsoft bulletin MS11-053, which addressed a critical vulnerability in the Windows Bluetooth stack on Windows Vista and Windows 7, is being seen as particularly important. Attackers could exploit the vulnerability by crafting and sending specially crafted Bluetooth packets to the target system to remotely take control.

The problem is how an object in memory is accessed when it has not been correctly started or if it has been deleted. Attackers can use this flaw to crash the system, install programs, access data and create new user accounts.

It is unlikely to be used much. The attacker would have to be within Bluetooth range to use it. However those who use gear in public spaces, such as airports, could be at risk.

The Bluetooth bug is a kernel-level problem and gives attackers "complete system access."

The second priority patch addresses an "important" DLL-preloading issue in Visio 2003 Service Pack 3. This has been around since August 2010 and Microsoft has been busy trying to fix it with lots of different patches. It only affects those who use Visio in the enterprise although users could be at risk for remote code execution attacks on the unpatched machines.

Microsoft fixed 15 vulnerabilities in Windows kernel-mode drives. These would appear to be important but in reality the attacker has to already have access to the target system before these bugs can be exploited

How to Save Money to Upgrade PC Software

Recently I calculate the money of software I paid. It is an amazing number - Over 1,000 US$. Once new software comes out, if we need to upgrade it, we must pay much for it. So I need to take consideration of this and cut the cost. 

Later this month I'll be canceling my subscription to a leading security suite that runs on two of my home-office PCs. I'll replace it with Microsoft's free Security Essentials, which I've been using on my notebook since I bought it two years ago. I realized several months ago that I simply no longer needed to spend money for the convenience of an all-in-one security app.

That got me thinking: Is there any software that the average PC user needs to pay for? Most of us bought our current operating system--usually Windows 7 or Mac OS X--as part of the purchase of the computer itself. Do-it-yourselfers have Linux as a free-OS alternative.

The programs we use for work, such as Microsoft Office 2010 and specialty apps like Adobe Photoshop or Intuit'sQuicken/QuickBooks accounting software, are likely provided by our employer. (People who work from home and/or for themselves have to buy their own software, but they can at least write off the cost of the programs they use in their work.)

What about all those commercial security suites and system utilities? I search online and found that there are some product keys sold from some online store that is cheap. So I try one and it is successful. Perfect!! 

Excluding Mac OS X Snow Leopard (number 8 on the list) and two Windows 7 Home Premium upgrades (standard and three-user family pack at 10 and 11, respectively), only two titles on Amazon's top 20 have no free equivalent that I'm aware of: Honest Technology's VHS to DVD Deluxe, which tops the Amazon list, and Nuance Communications' Dragon Naturally Speaking, which comes in at number 18.

Here's a rundown of Amazon's top-selling programs and their free counterparts.

It's no surprise that Microsoft Office 2010 takes four of the top 20 spots on software-sales list: Office 2010 Home & Student is number 2, Office 2010 Home & Business is 12th, Office for Mac 2011 Home & Student Family Pack is 13th, and Office for Mac 2011 Home & Student 1 Pack comes in 17th.

Now each time I will go to the retail store to looking for the discount suites. So I can save money without pay more on the Microsoft Store. My favorite site is www.Softwaretake.com!!

When will Windows 8 Launch?

According to the Tami Reller's speaking at the 2011 Worldwide Partner Conference, Windows 8 has the same system requirements as Windows 7.

"In both of our Windows 8 previews, we talked about continuing with the important trend that we started with Windows 7, keeping system requirements either flat or reducing them over time. Windows 8 will be able to run on a wide range of machines because it will have the same requirements or lower."

As a reminder, here are the Windows 7 system requirements:

1GHz CPU
1GB RAM (32-bit) or 2GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

It is the good news for all PC owners. They do not re-buy new PC to run the Windows 8 System. For this reason, Windows 8 must be more popular than Windows 7. It will bring a new sales trend for Microsoft Company.

Windows 7 has been sold 400 Million. And Windows 7 includes Windows 7 Standard, Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows 7 Home Premium. These three version meets people's requirement at the range from student to business man。 And who want to use it can pay less money for his fixed Windows 7 version.

Although the number shows the popularity of windows 7, windows 8 will be change this situation next year. Windows 8 will be sold more.