Compare features and prices of different version of Windows 7 in India

Microsoft Windows 7 comes in 4 flavor in India. Microsoft Windows 7 Home Basic, Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Microsoft Windows 7 Professional,Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate.Microsoft Windows 7 Home Basic is only available in emerging economies and not in developed nations.

Version	Feature	Price excluding Tax on 27 July 2010
Windows 7 Home Basic	Standard Feature	Rs 5,200.00
Windows 7 Home Premium	Windows 7 Home Basic Feature + Windows Media Center + HomeGroup	Rs 6,500.00
Windows 7 Professional	Windows 7 Home Premium Feature + Windows XP mode + Domain Join + Backup on home or business network	Rs 10,000.00
Windows 7 Ultimate	Windows 7 Professional + BitLocker + Switch between 35 languages	Rs 10,550.00

If you are a home user and looking for Windows 7 on your PC you may choose between first 2 versions. If you don’t care about Windows Media Center to watch,rewind and record TV (You will need TV tuner card in your computer).Windows 7 Home basic will do all other stuff for you.
HomeGroup is new feature in Windows 7 Home Premium and above to share different media files over network among Windows  7 computers. Even you have more than two Windows 7 computers at home you can still network using Windows workgroup.So, there is not much value addition from Windows 7 Home Basic to Windows 7 Home Premium unless you watch TV on your computer.
For people who need to run Windows XP productivity software on Windows 7 you have no choice but to buy Windows 7 professional at least.
If you wants to use Windows  in English and Hindi on same install but just login on and login off,You may consider buying Windows 7 Ultimate.35 languages to switch between supported by Windows 7 ultimate are
* Arabic
* Brazilian Portuguese
* Bulgarian
* Chinese – Simplified
* Chinese – Traditional – Hong Kong
* Croatian
* Czech
* Danish
* Dutch
* English
* Estonian
* Finnish
* French
* German
* Greek
* Hebrew
* Hindi
* Hungarian
* Italian
* Japanese
* Korean
* Lithuanian
* Norwegian
* Polish
* Portuguese
* Romanian
* Russian
* Serbian Latin
* Slovak
* Slovenian
* Spanish
* Swedish
* Thai
* Turkish
* Ukrainian
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