Windows 7

Windows 7 is a version of Microsoft Windows, an Operating system developed by Microsoft.

Windows 7 was released to manufacturing on June 22nd 2009, and to consumers on October 22, 2009.

Editions
Windows 7 is available for retails in three main editions: However, three more editions exist for other markets:
 * Ultimate: as the name implies, the most complete edition
 * Home Premium: productivity and entertainment at home
 * Professional: business edition
 * Home Basic: simple home edition for emerging markets, cheaper and with more limited features than Home Premium, lower requirements
 * Enterprise: Business version for large businesses and organizations, features custom activation, among other features.
 * Starter: most basic version of Windows 7, aimed at some netbooks and emerging markets

Each of these versions have an "N Version" in Europe, which removes products bundled with Windows 7 such as Windows Media Player and offers a browser ballot in place of Internet Explorer.

Additionally, each "edition" has two options: Upgrade and Full, where Upgrade is cheaper, but does not do clean installations, instead it only upgrades a genuine version of Windows Vista to 7.

Game Maker on 7
Operation of Game Maker and Game Maker games on Windows 7 is parallel to that on Windows Vista.