Windows 7 Professional With Service Pack 1 64-bit - Windows

The product works as designed. As an IT professional, Win7 is still the OS of choice by businesses across America. I used this product to rebuild a friend's 32-bit Windows Vista system fraught with all the limitations of that terrible Microsoft product. The machine now runs beautifully and my friend is extremely happy with the complete rebuild.

Disc came in a cardboard envlope, NOT plastic box as pictured. Everything still worked fine. COA is on the inside.

While this product served my purposes in getting Win7 licenses for a project I was working on, the box in the picture is very misleading, implying that this is a full commercial copy of Win7 Pro. It is not. It is an OEM installation CD. While it can be installed pretty much normally - the instructions imply you need to use OEM tools (you don't.) Worse, for many people, this license will tie to the first hardware you install it on. No moving it from computer to computer as you change hardware. Finally, since it's OEM, Microsoft will not provide customer support. That's not really much of an issue for most people as they don't go to Microsoft for support anyway. But it could be a LOT more clear what your buying.

Well i really wanted to get the windows 7 home premium version but only the professional edition of windows 7 was available at bestbuy.com It definetely does the job well however, i got used to the nice graphics and screen resolution that the home premium version gave. The professional version is pretty much a work horse operating systems and does work very well in multi tasking but the graphics and the screen resolution it provides is pretty bad and can look just a bit blurry, the reason i needed this OS was because i made the Biggest Mistake of upgrading to windows 10 free of charge and once i did that, it actually would freeze, refuse to let me go on the menu screen to try and access my word documents and the only option i had was to forcefully restart my computer. On the other worse side was that my office 2013 programs were very glitchy and about 80% of the time those programs didnt want to work. With that said if you would like to downgrade back to windows 7 this is the only way to go. Dont forget to re purchase microsoft office again because even with the product key you wont be able to get ot back.

I just built a new gaming machine, I love Windows 7 and feel that it's the best operating system for my desktop computer. If I wanted Windows 10, I would have purchased windows 8.1 and done the free upgrade because it would be the cheapest way. And now here is where you need to be carefull; Microsoft force installs the "Upgrade to Windows 10" system on all computers, I removed it multiple times, and told Windows Update to ignore the update permanently, but it just kept getting installed, even when setting Windows Update settings to download updates, but not to install, as well as setting it to check for updates but don't download or install. The only way to stop it completely was to turn Windows Update off 100%. The way Microsoft is trying to force their new OS on people really makes me wonder why.

Pleased at the installation and improved functionality, but not pleased that all of my files were deleted. The staff at the Broomfield store is competent, but hugely over worked and the counter and tech service is severely understaffed. I had to wait 45 min for a tech service rep on both ends of the transaction (drop off and diagnosis, and pick up). Very poor service.

Windows 7 is great and easy to use. Updated an 8 year old PC running Windows Vista . The install process was easy and all of my programs worked with out issue. I highly recommend Windows 7 since its supported for many years to come.

I feel its a mistake for Microsoft to discontinue Windows 7. Its probably the best system they have come out with since XP. I bought this to upgrade my system from XP and in the process it will allow a Windows 10 upgrade. I think I'll just stick with 7 for now. I'm not so sure about 10.