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Difference Between Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional & Ultimate Editions

Posted June 26, 2009 – 4:00 pm in: Windows 7
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As you know, Windows 7 available in a total of six different editions: Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate editions. Starter and Home Basic editions aren’t available in retail stores and they ship with PCs in select regions only And the Enterprise edition is only available for Enterprises.

So, end users need to choose between Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate editions. As the name suggests, the Home Premium is designed for home users, the Professional one  is for professionals who need advanced features such as remote desktop and location aware printing. The Ultimate edition is for users for users who need or who would like to have every feature present in Windows 7.

Microsoft recently announced Windows 7 pricing and upgrade options. Now that we have Windows 7 pricing and upgrade matrix, let’s check the difference between the most wanted Windows 7 editions: Windows 7 home premium, Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate.

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Since Windows 7 upgrade program and Windows7 pre-order program started already, you might want to check out the suitable Windows 7 edition for you.

Below is the official chart that shows you the difference between Windows Home premium, Professional, and Ultimate editions.

Difference between Windows 7 home premium, Professional and Ultimate

As you can see, location aware printing, domain join and group policy controls, remote desktop host, advanced back-up, and encrypting file system features aren’t present in the Home Premium edition and is available only in Professional and Ultimate editions. To get features such as BitLocker and BitLocker To Go, AppLocker, DirectAccess, BranchCache, and MUI language packs you need to go for the Ultimate edition.

You can always upgrade from your current Windows 7 edition to a higher edition without losing installed programs and settings. Check out our how to upgrade from Windows 7 Home Premium to Professional or Ultimate edition guide successfully upgrade to the powerful Windows 7 edition. One can also downgrade from one Windows 7 to another edition with the help of Windows 7 Downgrader tool

We also encourage you check out how to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8 guide.

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33 Comments

  1. Mike
    Posted January 14, 2010 at 2:36 am | Permalink

    straight to the point! :)

  2. lol
    Posted February 14, 2010 at 7:56 am | Permalink

    i think you got the full size image and thumbnail mixed up ;)

  3. pc boy
    Posted June 18, 2010 at 2:12 pm | Permalink

    Very welldone!!!

  4. Julie
    Posted June 26, 2010 at 10:03 am | Permalink

    Not sure what I feel about Windows 7, kinda seems boring. Vista had the desktop thing going on where if you wanted to go back to the desktop just one click and your there. It’s like I have to read too much stuck to navigate through Windows 7. It’s only been a few hours. I’ll be back..LOL!

  5. Chase
    Posted June 28, 2010 at 7:25 am | Permalink

    Julie: there is a desktop icon; its right beside the date/time. bottom right corner :)

  6. felsiya
    Posted October 7, 2010 at 9:08 pm | Permalink

    wow… i wanted the difference bw windows7 professional and ultimate.. now its very clear… well done

  7. amanda
    Posted October 12, 2010 at 11:19 pm | Permalink

    thank you for this! Now I know the difference between home premium and ultimate :)

  8. Eddie
    Posted November 8, 2010 at 5:11 am | Permalink

    I found this via a search with Google. I had been to other sites but this one shows the differences very clearly and in a concise manner. Well done! Looks like I need the professional upgrade since I’ll likely need to use the remote desktop host option on the professional version. Could have done with a cost saving though! :-)

  9. Rej
    Posted December 21, 2010 at 9:55 am | Permalink

    Fantastic, Very concise and to the point.
    Bill Gates is a jerk still.
    This should cost $40
    not $180

  10. why
    Posted January 6, 2011 at 6:31 pm | Permalink

    win7 has the newfolder button.. pretty useful . :)

  11. alex
    Posted January 10, 2011 at 12:53 am | Permalink

    thanks for the chart, very straight-forward and simple.

  12. Talib
    Posted January 10, 2011 at 6:33 pm | Permalink

    guys, use *nix os and save your money,
    ubuntu is the best for n00bs like me, as far as windows app, you can still run it via WINE,

  13. bingo
    Posted January 24, 2011 at 11:04 am | Permalink

    JULIE Windiows 7 is a second edition of Windows Vista which have better mwmory management!

    So what ever you have had in windows Vista is the equal but smoother in Windows 7!

    That i s the difference!

  14. phallus
    Posted February 9, 2011 at 3:38 am | Permalink

    win 7 hp is incredible

  15. aboobacker sidheeq
    Posted February 12, 2011 at 1:27 am | Permalink

    ???????? . i very happy , my doubt is finihed . pls send to me such knowledge

  16. aboobacker sidheeq
    Posted February 12, 2011 at 1:28 am | Permalink

    i very happy , my doubt is finihed . pls send to me such knowledge

  17. Luke
    Posted May 8, 2011 at 7:20 pm | Permalink

    Damn. There is absolutely no need to buy more than Home Premium unless you want to create a Windows 7 computer network..

  18. Mujahed
    Posted May 26, 2011 at 6:44 pm | Permalink

    Very useful and simple to know, Great!

  19. Gatsheni Ndlovu
    Posted May 30, 2011 at 8:24 pm | Permalink

    deffinately gotta be WINDOWS ULTIMATE for the ultimate user!!! i luv the searching facility, it sure does save me alot of time!

  20. Michael Melvyn
    Posted June 30, 2011 at 9:51 am | Permalink

    my computer has Windows 7 Home Premium built in however I upgraded my computer to Windows 7 Professional a few months ago and i love Windows 7 Professional better than Windows 7 Home Premium it has to do with security and users

  21. Roy Hedrick
    Posted July 5, 2011 at 3:31 am | Permalink

    What is the real differance in the Windows 7 systems. Why would I buy a larger program what would it give me? Is it something that I would appreciate?

    Thank You,
    Roy

  22. Chav
    Posted August 9, 2011 at 1:46 am | Permalink

    actually there is differences in the amount of ram each limits to for usage. look around dont get fooled.

  23. OneMore
    Posted August 14, 2011 at 11:04 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for work done, this list is more detailed than at Microsoft (my “site” link points to MS windows compare page), but there is one important feature mentioned at Microsoft, which is missed here:

    “Windows XP mode” (not supported for Premium Edition).

    For someone, who has a couple of apps incompatible with Win7, which are still necessary for work, it may make a difference.
    If the blog author takes time to update the table, it will add more value to this great article.
    Many thanks again!

  24. Johnno
    Posted August 26, 2011 at 11:14 pm | Permalink

    A really helpful article. Extremely easy to follow – unlike the official Windows site and absolutely no information on the Dell website when you are thinking of buying one of their pc’s with this pre-loaded. Thank you !

  25. Derek
    Posted September 2, 2011 at 6:34 pm | Permalink

    windows 7 home, premium and ultimate is the worst operating system in the world. face it windows has always sucked. but every other version of windows – vista especially was okay. microsoft destroyed there already destroyed name when they came out with windows 7. so many internal software glitches within every single version. professional is one of the worst especially when it comes to the new software needed to be ran for smartphones. example – kies. windows doesn’t allow it to happen. not without a lot of work anyways. the ultimate edition is even worse for this. if people want an os that works properly and will actually perform the tasks you need it to do. linux or mac.

  26. GARETH
    Posted January 18, 2012 at 9:14 pm | Permalink

    just upgraded from home premium to professional on anytime upgrade.it sent product code to my email but the ***** thing installed it before i could type in.it says profesional now BUT HOW THW FUCK CAN I BE SURE PEOPLE,ANYONE PLEASE RESPOND CLEARLY A SURE WAY TO TELL CAUSE AT THIS TIME I THINK IV BEEN BENT OVER!!??

  27. Joe
    Posted January 24, 2012 at 9:20 pm | Permalink

    You forgot a major difference in the Windows 7 editions, the amount of RAM it accepts.

    32-bit is maxed out at 4GB of RAM for all editions
    For 64-bit it’s:
    Starter: 8GB
    Home Basic: 8GB
    Home Premium: 16GB
    Professional: 192GB
    Enterprise: 192GB
    Ultimate: 192GB

  28. Elvis
    Posted March 4, 2012 at 10:58 pm | Permalink

    It’s just a OS ..It will NOT GET you more pussy! :) :) )

  29. Robb Ed
    Posted March 10, 2012 at 11:12 am | Permalink

    Microsoft!
    The ULTIMATE rip off!

  30. tony
    Posted June 1, 2012 at 8:39 am | Permalink

    Upgraded from Home Premium to ultimate in my new SONY. Does not work. ELink, SONY’s support system reformatted back to Home Premium. Its a joke. Cannot upgrade!

  31. Viktor
    Posted December 18, 2012 at 6:19 pm | Permalink

    Then i on PC,i it do every one across Boots.Lose time for
    repair PC it is no normal.That i have: Tune Up PC and Power
    Suite.My problem,that i not wont to do new stand Windows.
    I buy always in last Year new programs and to do new registry it is no very good gift.

  32. mukesh
    Posted January 1, 2013 at 12:51 pm | Permalink

    dear sir,
    my pc working on windos 7 home in lan network now i want to chang my os that is windos 7 professional what can i chang and work properly without changing a lan seting

  33. admin
    Posted January 2, 2013 at 8:02 pm | Permalink

    Upgrading from Windows 7 Home to Professional won’t change Windows settings. To upgrade, please check out our this guide:
    http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-upgrade-windows-7-home-premium-to-professional-or-ultimate-edition/

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