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Why are people buying Windows 7 Ultimate
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Why are people buying Windows 7 Ultimate
Hi All. I'm getting close to upgrading my system with an i7-920, and I'll be going for Windows 7 Pro Retail (dont want the re-activation headaches of OEM).
I noticed quite a few people have chosen to go ultimate. I've looked at all the comparison charts and it seems that the only additional feature of ultimate over professional is the bitlocker encryption which actually ends up creating a special partition. There are a couple of features such as being able to talk to a UNIX filesystem, but I cant imagine that such a high percentage of users on OCN would need these features. I'm choosing professional for a number of reasons, but especially the remote desktop support which I will use. Is there something I'm missing in regard to Ultimate vs Professional? Perhaps some promise of a future feature that may only be provided for Ultimate? Thanks.
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Ultimate has more language options.
__________________...yep. Stick with pro. Ultimate is an ultimate waste of money.
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We like to get the best
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Both of my free copies were Ultimate.
If I had to pay for 7, I'd probably go with Professional. The name "Ultimate" and having the sweet black box just makes it worth the extra cash though
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er does it mean I'm pedo?
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i've got access to Ult for the same price as Pro. so might as well haha.
but if I remember correctly there's a handful of things like BitLocker, and some such. in all it's a pretty moot advantage in my opinion unless you know you need it.
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It's for the E-Peen advantage!
 (see sig rig)But seriously, I got a really good deal for my copies of Win 7 Ultimate, but had I not, I probably would have gone Professional route. There really isn't as much of a difference as there was with Vista Ultimate.
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Nope, get Pro. I got access to Ult for the same price, so I just went with it. You can encrypt your filesystem with Truecrypt if you really want to.
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