Chapter 1

Using Your Software

System Requirements

Using the Product

Windows requirements

To use this product, you must have any of the following Windows operating systems installed.

Operating system

Windows 2000 Professional SP4 or later

 

 

Windows XP (32bit, SP2 or later)

 

 

Home Edition/Professional

 

 

Windows Vista (32bit/64bit, SP1 or later)

 

 

Home Basic/Home Premium/Business/Enterprise/

 

 

Ultimate

 

 

Windows 7 (32bit/64bit)

 

 

Home Premium/Professional/Enterprise/Ultimate

 

 

Windows Server 2003 (32bit, SP2 or later)

 

 

Standard/Enterprise

 

 

Windows Server 2003 R2 (32bit, SP2 or later)

 

 

Standard/Enterprise

 

 

Windows Server 2008 (32bit/64bit, SP2 or later)

 

 

Standard/Enterprise

 

 

Windows Server 2008 R2 (64bit)

 

 

Standard/Enterprise

 

 

 

CPU

Windows 2000

Intel Pentium 4 (or compatible processor) 1.4 GHz or

 

Windows XP

faster processor

 

Windows Vista

 

 

Windows 7

 

 

Windows Server 2003

 

 

Windows Server 2003 R2

 

 

 

 

 

Windows Server 2008

Intel Pentium 4 (or compatible processor) 2.0 GHz or

 

Windows Server 2008 R2

faster processor

 

 

 

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