I want to upgrade to Ms Professional what is the cost?
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If you are going to buy ( or have bought) a Windows 7 PC between June 2, 2012 and January 31, 2013, you can upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for $14.99 from Mirosoft. Register for the offer at windowsupgradeoffer.com before February 28, 2013. Microsoft will send you an email with your promotion code and purchase instructions when Windows 8 Pro is available. Download and install Windows 8 Pro on a compatible Windows-based PC with Windows Upgrade Assistant. Plus, the offer includes 90 days of Microsoft technical support at no charge. ** ------------------ Already purchased a Windows 7 PC? Microsoft still got you covered. If you bought a PC preinstalled with Windows 7 Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate on or after June 2, 2012, just go to windowsupgradeoffer.com and register. We'll send you an email with your promotion code and purchase instructions when Windows 8 Pro is available. You can then download and install Windows 8 Pro on a compatible PC with Windows Upgrade Assistant. It will cost $39.99.
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"Can one simply upgrade the Windows 7 Home Edition to Windows 7 professional on this machine?"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtBZO7ZKOc4
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Before replying, may I suggest you get the newer version, CorelDraw X6. Another Amazon vendor is offering the X6 version for just a dollar or two more, which is the product I purchased just last week. You used the term "upgrade." However, nothing I noticed in the product I recently purchased identified it as an upgrade. On the "honor system," you're expected to be a home or student user, thus entitling you to purchase this full X6 version I purchased at a deeply discounted price. You'd also be entitled to making three installations and a license number was provided with the product, too. In other words, it's a full version, not an upgrade version. I installed it without a hitch. By the way, I'm also running Windows 7 Home Premium on an I5-3450 processor. So, as far as I can tell, you'd be perfectly "good to go" buying the X6 version I purchased for about the same price. Good luck with it.
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updating with the software is there an addtional charge or is it free with this product
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It comes with Windows 7 Professional pre-installed, but you can upgrade it to Windows 8 Pro via its disc.
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I would recommend an Office 365 personal subscription for $7.99/month. It's what I use on my Chromebook if I want the highest degree of compatibility with other MS Office users. For my own documents, I use the built in Word Processor and Spreadsheet. They are compatible with Word, but occasionally not perfectly (margin's off, etc). Now if someone would buy the Chromebook to replace by Acer C710, "that would be great (from Office Space)"!
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The computer I purchased has Windows XP Professional (it was likely leased to a company before being refurbished). The seller did not include a Windows re-installation disk so I asked for one and it was provided free of charge. I'm pretty sure you can upgrade to Windows 7 or 8 if you have enough memory. I would check on the Microsoft website to see if it meets the upgrade criteria since Windows XP support ends April 14, 2014.
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No, this model comes with Windows 8.1, 64-bit. You can upgrade rather easily using the link in the System control panel. However, it may be less expensive for you to just buy a PC with 8.1 Pro pre-installed. Good luck!
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It depends on the extras for each laptop. Mine came with MS Starter 2010. I will install MS Office Pro 2007 the same as I have on my computer. You just need to look at the listing and it should tell you what is pre-installed.
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Just connect via a wireless connection and download it for free. It was automatically tell you an upgrade is available in the settings.
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Microsoft windows 8 pro 64bit - be sure you do all the updates and upgrade for free to 8.1 pro
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The laptop comes with Windows 8.1 Standard installed. The standard edition will not let you join the laptop to an active directory domain or use the Hyper-V hypervisor to create virtual machines, among other things. I think the upgrade to Pro can be found for around $100.
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The laptop comes with the trial of MS Office installed if I remember correctly. I loaded an open-office program on it (which works fine) and then a week or so later bought MS Office 2010 Pro through the Federal Govt' discount page--if you have a student discount I think it will link you to the same page and that would probably be your best (and least expensive) bet.
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There used to be a Windows 7 Home Premium Family Pack with 3 licenses for $150 but to the best of my knowledge there is no family pack for Window 8. Each Windows 8 license costs $120 for the Home Edition and $200 for the Pro Edition. I recommend you contact either Amazon directly or the Microsoft Store at store.microsoft.com for volume licenses. I just buy Windows 1 copy at a time.
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You don't need to upgrade at all. Win 8 pro is more for officer people. Win 8 and win 8 pro are no different for us
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It's free. You can do it by going to windows update. The computer will eventually ask you as well
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Actually, MS Office is installed but after a short trial period you will have to buy it.