WINDOWS 7

It’s no secret; vista has been a complete disaster since its first launch. Microsoft is trying hard to lure millions of XP users with a whole new experience of a new & better OS. Although times are not favorable for Microsoft with new flavors of Linux and OS X leaping ahead with time, Microsoft needs to do some kudos miracle. I managed to use one of the early pre-beta versions on windows 7, to be more specific I used Windows 7 ultimate (build-6801) version. Although the
release date claimed by Microsoft is in the mid 2010 but with high expectations running we might be able to see a late 2099 release for win 7. Who knows? May be it will be New Year gift from Microsoft to all XP-phobic fans. Here is an exclusive look at the os we all might upgrade to next year. In plain words what I experienced was that windows 7 was a lot faster and stable than vista. Microsoft seemed to have reduced the windows 7 boot time significantly by turning off many rather useless services. Mr. Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft said in the ITxpo, Orlando that-“Windows 7 will be vista but a whole lot better.”

PERFORMANCE:-
Inspite of the fact that windows seven is being built on the same base code as that of vista, team
Microsoft is trying hard to speed-up the boot time and in turn reduce the number of startup services.The OS has also been designed to be able to take advantage of newer technologies such as solid state dives (SSDs). We can only keep our fingers crossed and hope that those improvements will be better than the improvements that windows vista service pack 1 provided us. But I found a significant problem with the build that I tested, after installing windows 7 everything worked fine and there were no BSODs,but after using it for 4-5 days windows was unable to find the driver for both of my ATAPI DVD-RW driver for neither of my drives. I tried hard to somehow feed into it the driver but the only solution I had was to download the driver from the net and for people who do not have access to the web will be having just one option left i.e. to reinstall windows. But again after installing the driver and using the OS for 7-8 days again the same problem persisted, but last time I had backed up the driver in mu pen-drive
and so I could install it again. But I am sure that this problem has already been solved by the time you read this.

INTERFACE:-
In one of the few early public demonstrations of windows 7, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, showed off or rather boasted about its use of multitouch technology similar to that of Microsoft’s surface table computer. The windows taskbar is completely redesigned. There are no tabs with text-labels of the program running, instead the applications are docked as icons and are visible even when they are not running. This behavior mimics that of OS x dock to an extent but is more confusing because it duplicates the function of the quick launch bar which is still next to it, also a niche feature is that dragging a window to either side of the screen makes a vertical tile half the screen wide and dragging a windows towards or away from the top of the screen minimizes or restores it. The sidebar is gone and gadgets can sit anywhere. The display properties dialog box is totally refreshed with a new theme chooser and options for sound. Also the ribbon interface that made its debut in office 2007 will be a feature of many windows 7 apps. Such as the WordPad, paint, etc.

APPLICATIONS:-
Many traditional windows accessories and apps that were bundled in vista such as windows mail,
windows DVD maker, Windows movie maker, etc. will not be available in the standard windows 7
installation instead users have an option of downloading web-based windows live apps. But Microsoft should have included the simple and easy to use windows movie maker for budding editors. Windows media player moves up to version 12. A semi-transparent screen with overlaid controls is easier to use, with improved high-def codec support. The new [win]+[tab] shortcut allows user to toggle between projector and secondary display. A all new application is the windows power shell v2 which is a command line scripting interface designed to help with system administration. The control panel has been reorganized. The new default view is laid out quite logically, but the complete list of options is large enough to drive anyone insane. The explorer has a cleaner overall look. The humble calculator gains a unit converter, statistics helper and can also help out with loan payments and fuel mileage.

FINAL WORDS:-
With Windows vista not being one of the most successful chapter in Microsoft’s history, no matter whatever the hell of magic is done to vista it would remain vista. So, all you XP users out there thinking of upgrading to Vista wait for a few more months and upgrade to windows seven, I am, pretty much sure that it will prove to be a good bet for you.

UNDERLYING FACTS ABOUT WINDOWS SEVEN

-Support for blu-ray read/write
-Seamless audio transfer to Bluetooth 2.1 audio devices
-Direct x 11 and better multithreading rendering support
-Quicker shutdown and boot-up times
-Device stag, a platform for managing and interacting with remove-able
devices
-GPS support
-Improved back-up and restore mechanism
-Better accuracy for pen input
-VHD (virtual hard drive) image support