Reddit Reddit reviews Microsoft Windows 7 Professional [Old Version]

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Microsoft Windows 7 Professional [Old Version]
Recover data easily with automatic backups to your home or business network, connect to company networks effortlessly and more securelyMake the things you do every day easier with improved desktop navigation; This is the Retail version of the softwareStart programs faster and more easily, and quickly find the documents you use most oftenEasily create a home network and connect your PCs to a printer with HomeGroup
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6 Reddit comments about Microsoft Windows 7 Professional [Old Version]:

u/progenyofeniac · 1 pointr/sysadmin

Thanks for the info. It does appear to be true.

You'll just be paying an arm and a leg for it.

u/display_block · 1 pointr/applehelp

I'll give you a little more in-depth+opinion, which is probably what you're looking for here:

  1. Yup! Support for installing Windows on your Mac is bundled with Mac OS X in a utility called "Boot Camp Assistant". It comes with all the drivers you need to take full advantage of your Mac's hardware while running Windows. Switching back and forth between the two systems is fairly simple, but you need to restart the computer each time.


  2. Very helpful. Practically the whole reason I use Boot Camp. You're also able to install the latest drivers for your graphics card straight from the card's manufacturer (NVIDIA or AMD typically if your Mac comes with one), so you're always getting the best performance possible in the latest games. Heat management is a little wonky so your fans might run loud, but I haven't had any other problems.


  3. Here's the current setup guide for Boot Camp. It'll split your drive in two partitions so that Mac and Windows have their own space. You'll be able to install Windows via a USB drive in all Macs made past mid-2012, and you're also able to use a Windows Install DVD if you have a DVD drive on your Mac. You'll need to purchase a full license of Windows 7 rather than an upgrade copy, so it'll cost something like $170, $269 or $292 depending on the features you need. Be sure you're getting the 64-bit version included, where ever you decide to purchase.


    And welcome to the darkside! Here's a video to give you the basics during your transition.
u/bobishardcore · 1 pointr/geek

>That's ridiculous.

No it's not. What IS ridiculous is assuming that security is out of your reach just because you haven't heard of it. Close to 80% of all software vulnerabilities are the direct result of buffer overflows. Which leaves most of the remaining concerns of mine to be rettolibc and tmp racing (sorry, couldn't find a very good link on this one). All three of these issues are addressed in Gentoo Hardened & grsec with NX (Non-executable memory flags in the stack), ASLR, PIC, the Gentoo Hardened Toolchain, Role-Based Access Control and various other restrictions (/proc restrictions, chroot restrictions, et al). Go ahead, take your best shot. You're not gonna find anyway into my system. For example: this came out in April, but when it was a zero-day, I had nothing to fear. Buffer overflows? I say bring 'em on. You can't say that. And I use TrueCrypt sometimes, but it's nowhere near as complete a tool as kernel-level crypto. TC runs in user mode. Tell me, how would you configure TC to use a crypto algorithm other than the ones packaged with it? Re-write it? It's a simple modprobe to the driver stack in linux.

>You're getting closer to the truth... (Well, except the price. Try a third to half of that for most.)

Don't tell me you think home edition is an option... It's not. Discounted to $263 but still $299 MSRP. And even with that price, it's still a piece of shit.

>Where business really comes into it is that the amount of effort they put into patching security on their stretched out 90s architecture has to be enough to satisfy enough customers that they will still sell millions of copies of Windows - and they do that handily, so it's cheaper for them to fix things as they go, as they do, instead of spending an infinite amount of time and money to trace out every single possible vulnerability and fixing it before release. That would be sort of like refusing to release a car until it was physically impossible to be killed in a crash.

Are you fucking serious? You're ok with this? That's what you're riding on? Look, I don't care how secure your system isn't. You probably have nothing of worth on it anyway. You don't run infrastructure which is why you don't care about M$'s evils. I'm just saying from the perspective of a sysadmin and someone who knows better, M$ isn't an option. Because they just don't care about your data. Google, on the other hand does. You can complain that they went around and sniffed up a bunch of open traffic but who cares? It was OPEN!! If you're not running encryption on your home network, you don't care either. So one fucking guy leaked some users' data. Has the same happened since? What came of the users? Are they socially ruined? Financially wrecked? Can you name one single user from the leak? Where can I get their personal data?

>It doesn't cost me nothing; it costs my privacy

How is it that when you use Google it "costs you your privacy" but when you use Bing it doesn't? You think Microsoft isn't doing exactly the same thing Google is except on an inferior software platform? Where do you think Bing's engineers learned how to make a search engine? You think they just had a whole bunch of original ideas?

My point this whole time has been this: What you with Google's products and services is between you and Google only (except that one time that one disgruntled dude leaked). What you do with Microsoft's products and services is among you, Microsoft, and anybody with a copy of Metasploit and/or Backtrack. Microsoft doesn't care about you. They've never even made an effort to pretend like they have. They'll do anything and everything to cover the bottom line however they can. Google sells Ads. BFD. Humans don't scour your email to figure out what to sell you, Bayesian scanners do. They're wrong most of the time anyway.

>I've also seen so many unhackables get hacked by now

False. If they were unhackable, and there is such a thing, they wouldn't have been hacked. Yes, in security you have to stay ahead of the curve. But, buffer overflows right of the box? WTF? It's a 30-year-old problem and M$ still hasn't caught up. I have literally been born, raised, and educated on the threat and fixed it on my own in the time it has taken M$ to not catch up (I'm 27). You think they just haven't heard of how secure platforms address the threat? Or isn't it more likely that there's money to be made in selling insecure OSes? Why do I have to buy AV separately? Shouldn't there be a basic expectation of privacy when I BUY the f'ing OS in the first place? I find it sad that the free option is better than the paid option.

You've got a skewed definition of privacy to think M$ is affording it to you.

Google > Microsoft.

u/dark_roast · 1 pointr/technology

Here's the problem with their pricing. If Windows was always sold as $100, there weren't 11 distinct versions of the operating system available, and there was the the presumption of a roughly 5-year product cycle, no one would complain. Problem is, a full retail copy of Windows is fucking expensive, and even though you'd have to be an idiot to pay $250 or more for Windows when this will totally serve the same purpose for 99% of users, seeing copies of Windows in retail stores at $250+, and then hearing that copies of THE ONLY VERSION of MacOSX sell for $20, gives the impression that Windows is the more expensive OS by a long shot, when in reality it's closer to a draw.

And I should point out that there were only 3 years between Vista and 7, and there will only be about 3.5 years between 7 and 8.

Either way, this is a super smart move on Microsoft's part. Personally, I know I'll be handing $80 to Microsoft instead of $0 because they priced it the way they did. Now, if only they'd get rid of all the alternate versions and just release one 64-bit version, they'd be getting somewhere.

u/chrisma08 · 1 pointr/windows

Source: Amazon.com

Windows 7 Pro RETAIL VERSION: $245

Window 7 Pro OEM VERSION: $140

Buying the Retail version is only slightly less expensive than buying the OEM version twice.

u/mfskarphedin · 1 pointr/buildapc

Ah, no wonder it's almost $600 bucks on Amazon - supply and demand. :/

But considering a couple other replies, I'm going to wait until I do a new build; I forgot about the whole 32-bit/64-bit thing. I'll just stick with XP until this 32-bit rig dies and build a 64-bit rig with whatever best MS OS is out there.