Windows 7 Home Premium review

The best version of Windows 7 for home users

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Windows 7 Home Premium
Windows 7 comes in many different flavours, but Home Premium is likely to be the people's choice

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To properly put Windows 7 through its paces, we ran real-world benchmarks on a Dell XPS M1330 and compared the differing results between Windows Vista, Windows 7 Release Candidate and the final Windows 7 RTM version.

We timed both the Ultimate and Home Premium version of Windows 7 and as you'd expect, found no differences in performance.

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Mary Branscombe
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Mary (Twitter, Google+, website) started her career at Future Publishing, saw the AOL meltdown first hand the first time around when she ran the AOL UK computing channel, and she's been a freelance tech writer for over a decade. She's used every version of Windows and Office released, and every smartphone too, but she's still looking for the perfect tablet. Yes, she really does have USB earrings.