Windows 7 Home Premium to Professional Upgrade

Get more now. Move up to Windows 7 Professional.

Windows 7 Professional has everything you need for work and home. Run many Windows XP productivity programs in Windows XP Mode and keep important information safer with file encryption and automatic back-ups. Connect to business networks and move more easily between business and home networks. And with all the great entertainment features of Windows Home Premium, like Windows Media Center, it's great for home as well as for business.

• Simplifies everyday tasks
• Improved desktop navigation features like Snap, Peek and Shake, make it easier to manage all of your open windows
• Creating a home network has never been easier
• You can even share files and printers with all the PCs with Windows 7 on the network
• Find virtually anything on your PC - from documents to songs to email - just by typing a word or two with Windows Search
• Designed to make your PC sleep and resume quicker
• Takes full advantage of the power and multi-tasking capabilities of the latest 64-bit PCs
• Windows XP Mode gives you the business flexibility you need
• Watch, pause, rewind and record TV with Windows Media Center
• Includes integrated video and Dolby audio codecs

If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here's what it takes:

• 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
• 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
• DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

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 requiresa network and PCs running Windows 7
• DVD/CD authoring requires a compatible optical drive
• BitLocker requires Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2
• BitLocker To Go requires a USB flash drive
• Windows XP Mode requires anadditional 1 GB of RAM, an additional 15 GB of available hard disk space, and a processor capable of hardware virtualization with Intel VT or AMD-V turned on
• Music and sound require audio output

Product functionality and graphicsmay vary based on your system configuration. Some features may require advanced or additional hardware.