 So today I am going to be unboxing Microsoft Windows 7. Now I realize there's not really a whole lot to unbox here There's a lot of text about making sure that you agree to all of this stuff before you open it. So let's get started Basically Windows 7. What does it bring to the table? Well, we've got the home premium edition here today and there are a couple other editions There's professional and yeah professional is back folks It's no longer called business and then there's also the ultimate edition So with our home premium here we get welcome to your PC Simplified this OEM software may not be delivered under blah blah blah unless a company. Okay, so we're gonna lift pick up these There's your Windows 7 home premium that comes in a jewel case that is sealed as per this So let's find out what is in the documentation first. So then we'll talk a little bit about Windows 7 itself It's uh, it's about a simpler PC from day one. Okay, that's great three easy steps Let's get personal awesome So they're giving you a couple little basics about how to use the OS and they talk through they actually we should show this I think they talk about a lot of the stuff that they've done to make things better So first of all, the taskbar has been improved You can have multiple windows that just pop up to show you all of the different things that you have open in for example Internet Explorer. So you've got three IE windows open you can preview them and then click the one you want. That's pretty useful They've also got these what are these called jump lists? So that gives you common tasks that you do according to what you use this program for so they're using Windows media player as an example So you frequently do this and then they're giving you some standard ones as well And then there's also the desktop preview which is really useful So you drag your mouse down to the very bottom right and then one of the other things that I really like about it is Arrow shake. So basically all you need to do is shake a window it'll maximize and then if you shake it again, I believe it minimizes and if you Use the arrow snap you actually just drag a window to the left to the right or to the top to maximize So if you drag it to the right it takes up the right half of your screen If you drag it to the left, it'll go to the left half of your screen. So that's a pretty cool feature as well Oh, here's the desktop preview one So it just makes all of your windows translucent and you can see the desktop if you click it Then you'll go to the desktop just like the show desktop button on Windows Vista and Windows XP So Windows Media Center is one of the big features included with home premium and let's talk a little bit about the differences between home premium professional and Ultimate so our discs looks like just our standard Windows DVD. It's a 64-bit edition here You can buy it in 32 or 64 bit. I'd really recommend going 64 bit at this point though Windows 7 professional okay Windows 7 professional gives you a couple of options that you don't have with home premium First of all you get XP mode So XP mode means that you can run any XP application in a hundred percent compatibility mode You do need a virtualization ready processor. So make sure that you have that but it looks like a really cool feature The other thing you get with both XP pro with XP pro with 7 professional and 7 ultimate is the ability to downgrade to Vista business this to ultimate respectively or to Windows XP pro all you have to do is Install Windows XP pro enter any old serial you can find it doesn't even have to be a valid one to be perfectly honest with You then you go to activate. It'll fail you call up Microsoft you say hey I'm downgrading them you get your windows you give them your windows 7 key They'll give you a valid Windows XP key to use until you're ready to go back to Windows 7 So thank you for checking out my unboxing of Microsoft Windows 7