Windows 7 Home Premium VS Windows 7 Professional

How Usefully it is for a home user to go with Professional ?
Is Professional more stable then Home Premium?
Please advice.
Thanks

 

Not useful at all, except if you need the additional functionality, such as the XP virtualization ability.

As far as stability goes, both should be equally stable.

 

Remote Desktop not available in Home Premium.

 

I guess RealVNC could take place of Remote Desktop hosting? I am about to purchase upgrades for my G2S and EEE...I am thinking a copy of Professional and a copy of Home Premium. I don't think I will ever use XP Mode, seeing nearly all programs are compatible, or remote hosting, but I guess having its capabilities might be useful on my desktop replacement. The extra $50 is a significant amount though, for me at least.

 

I would go with home premium, its much cheaper, not to mention less stuff means it runs lighter on your hardware

remote hosting can be replaced by a separate program, the thing i dont know is about the xp mode, for some it may be VERY useful, for some it might not... but you cant really be sure until it comes out and someone uses it to know if its worth the $50...

( much like the vista ultimate's Dreamscene, which can be enabled in home premium without paying the extra amount)

 

Unless you have to login to a windows domain, the professional version is probably not the way to go-

 

I've used the xp compatibility mode in ultimate and it's nice for those xp programs that haven't yet been updated for win 7- but in 2 or 3 months and later, many will be updated......

 

The XP compatibility mode is different from that of the option currently in Vista, correct? I have read it will require additional downloads, thus is it more like a virtual machine running XP where the program is run inside instead of just changing environment variables for the specific program?

 

There is an XP compatibility mode in W7 and a seperate way of running a virtualized copy of XP on W7 Pro and above. This second way has highish requirements.

There are many, many differences between Vista Business and Home Premium that haven't been mentioned and aren't very well documented. Once you find out what they are, you either think they're worth the extra cost or not.

 

Exactly, subtle things like Presentation Mode. For me, it is coming down to XP mode. I do use Remote Desktop, but only as a peer to my work computer. I guess hosting is useful, but not worth the fifty dollars for me. The XP Mode of Professional does seem kinda of nice...making it so I do not have to virtual-ize my own copy for sandbox purposes.

My last question is if the special XP mode of Professional will be like Virtual PC/Virtual Box, where you can control if you save changes to the machine file? I like to mess around and while Virtual Box is nice, a native solution might be better, if it allowed it to be like a sandbox. If not, I personally do not see the need for Professional. I can run VNC -Virtual Box and be as happy as a clam.

Thanks for the information!

P.S. I will be calling MS this evening to specifically ask regarding XP Home -> Pro and Vista Home Premium - >W7 Professional. They are a bit vague in their requirements, bouncing back and forth between requirements. I'll post back when I get an answer.

 

I believe the virtual XP mode in 7 is like other virtualization software, but I haven't installed 7 on a machine that meets the processor requirements so I don't know..... Yet!