For many in the world their very first computer and internet experience started with windows operating systems and still Windows family accounts for more than 90% of Operating Systems which are being used in computers according to a W3 Schools log files statistics while Windows XP still crowns to be the most popular operating system. The upcoming latest addition of Windows Operating System family, titled as Windows 7 will be officially available from Octorber 22 onwards worldwide.
The latest addition Windows 7, coming with all in all simpler and an easier to use technology making Windows’ user friendly environment more reliable for the coming up internet generation. Windows 7 is a far fore a modest release than Vista, although Vista’s foundation was solid Windows 7 makes it better for the user. “When we asked what you wanted in a PC, you told us to make it simpler and easier to use. We listened. And we built Windows 7 to make your PC simpler and the things you do every day easier. Now, it's nearly ready. Windows 7 is on its way to manufacturers, and will be available on October 22” says the Microsoft Website announcing the launch of its latest member of operating systems.
In a world where people are so close to their cyber popularity and virtual societies Windows 7 makes everyday tasks reliable, simpler and faster, gives you more control, and puts your PC at the center of your media world within just a few minutes. The new Windows 7 comes with a combination of tools with Internet Explorer 8 and many more. It’s a lot of great features and news for us to be excited about.
The Windows 7 comes with four basic editions apart from its Windows 7 Enterprise version. Windows 7 Starter, Home Premium, Professional and Ultimate are the four of them. Windows 7 Starter PCs easier to use because it puts less between you and what you want to makes small notebook do. Windows starter is all about less waiting, less clicking, less hassle connecting to networks. It is combined the latest in reliability and responsiveness with the familiarity and compatibility of Windows added with easier access to home networks with other PCs running in the same platform.
Windows 7 Home Premium makes it easy to create a home network and share all of your favorite photos, videos, and music in the cyberspace. You can even watch, pause, rewind, and record TV. It is the best entertainment experience in Windows 7 Home Premium. Empowered with integrated video and Dolby audio codecs Windows 7 Home Premium enables you to watch, pause, rewind, and record TV with Windows Media Centre.
If you are using ‘Windows 7 Professional’, you will undoubtedly feel that it’s only a fewer walls stand between you and your success. With Windows 7 Professional you can run many Windows XP productivity programs in Windows XP Mode while recovering data easily with automatic backups to your home or business network. You can manage virtual office at home easily by connecting to company networks effortlessly and more securely with Domain Join. Added with all the exciting entertainment features of Windows Home Premium, it’s a great choice for home and for business professionals.
For people who want it all ‘Windows 7 Ultimate’ is the most versatile and powerful edition of Windows 7. Combined with remarkable ease-of-use with the entertainment features of Home Premium and the business capabilities of Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate enables you to work in the language of your choice and switch between any of 35 languages. For added security, you can encrypt your data with ‘BitLocker’ and ‘BitLocker To Go’ in Windows 7 Ultimate.
New features on the Windows 7 desktop make it easier to organize and manage multiple windows. I was able organize my work on my files and programs since it enabled switching between opened windows. Many features in new Windows 7 add a personal touch to your own desktop. With ‘Snap’ you can arrange and resize windows on the desktop with a simple mouse movement. Snap also helps you to align windows at the side of the desktop, expand them vertically to the entire height of the screen, or maximize them to completely fill the desktop. Especially when I had to compare two documents, copying or moving files between two windows, maximizing the window I was working on, or expanding long documents Snap made me easier to read and I just needed to do less scrolling. As a day to day internet consumer and an information explorer Windows 7 made my life at cyber world simpler and faster than usual.
Now you can Tint your windows using the provided colours, or mix your own custom colour. You can even fine-tune the color and appearance of windows, the Start menu, and the taskbar by tinting your translucent windows. Select one of the provided colors, or create your own custom color using the color mixer. With improved taskbar previews, bigger icons, pinning and creative ways to personalize your own PC and allowing speedy access to your favourite pictures, songs, websites and documents Windows 7 simplifies our virtual life’s everyday tasks. The new Windows 7 allows you to select specific gadgets for your desktop. You could even create your own customized theme with Windows 7. Featuring a transparent glass design with subtle window animations, a new Start menu, a new taskbar, and new window border colors in this version of Windows create a premium visual experience in titled ‘Aero’. Perhaps you can choose one picture to be your desktop background or you can display a slide show of pictures. Without having to open a new window, Windows 7 let you to have Desktop gadgets that are customizable mini-programs. They can display information, such as calendar notes, clock, currency converter, continuously updated headlines or a picture slide show. Using Aero Shake in Windows 7, you can quickly minimize all open windows on the desktop except the one you want to focus on. If you want to minimize all other windows apart from the the window you want to work on all you have to do is to shake that window to minimize all other windows. However Aero is not included in Windows 7 Home Basic or Windows 7 Starter. Aero desktop experience is only available in Windows 7 Enterprise, Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate. And in order to experience the Aero desktop experience your computer’s hardware should be at least armed with 1-Gigahertz (GHz) 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor, 1 Gigabyte (GB) of random access memory (RAM) and a128-Megabyte (MB) graphics card. Now Windows Media Center in Windows 7 sports eye-popping visuals and better ways to browse. This time Windows Media Center supports more global TV standards and tuners, including digital and High Definition (HD) technology. It also now plays more popular audio and video formats such as 3GP, AAC, AVCHD, DivX, MOV, and Xvid.
Although ‘The Show Desktop’ button has been moved the opposite end of the taskbar from the Start button, it makes easier to click or point to the button without accidentally opening the Start menu.
In Windows 7, you can find more things in more places and do it faster. All you need to do is start typing into the Start menu search box and you'll instantly see a list of relevant documents, pictures, music, and e-mail on your PC. All results appear in grouped by category and contain highlighted keywords and text snippets to make them easier to scan making our selection uncomplicated. More over Windows 7 is also designed to search external hard drives, networked PCs, and a new special feature called libraries.
In previous versions of Windows, managing your files meant organizing them in different folders and subfolders. In this version of Windows, you can also use libraries to organize and access files regardless of where they're stored in your computer. A library gathers files from different locations and displays them as a single collection, without moving them from where they're stored. Windows 7 let you to create a new library apart from the four default libraries: Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos .With Windows Libraries you can arrange items by folder, date, and other properties.
Additionally with Windows Live Essentials you could download free Windows software that makes your PC do more great things via Windows 7. Everything you are stick in to, whether its e-mail, instant messaging, photo editing, and blogging all you could do faster with Mail, Windows Messenger, Photo Gallery, Writer and Movie Maker.
No matter where you are on the cyber world you can get one-click access to Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Calendar, Windows Live Photos, and other Windows Live services instantly through Windows Toolbar. Windows 7 has significantly improved the touchscreen experience in computers. For example, buttons in Windows are now easier to tap with your finger. Windows 7 includes new gestures to make using touch easier. You can use some gestures, such as flicks, on all computers with touchscreens. The new Windows Touch gestures, such as rotate and zoom, require a touchscreen that can recognize at least two touch points at a time.
Windows 7 is designed to sleep and resume quicker be less memory hungry and spot USB devices faster with new power-saving features which are designed to help laptops run longer. Despite all these, Windows 7 makes the most of powerful 64-bit PCs, the new desktop standard. It makes new things possible such as if you pair your Windows 7 with a touch-sensitive PC and you no longer need a keyboard or mouse. Of all the power-saving states in Windows, hibernation uses the least amount of power. On a laptop, use hibernation when you know that you won't use your laptop for an extended period and won't have an opportunity to charge the battery during that time. Hybrid sleep is designed primarily for desktop computers. Hybrid sleeps is a combination of sleep and hibernate; it puts any open documents and programs in memory and on your hard disk, and then puts your computer into a low-power state so that you can quickly resume your work. That way, if a power failure occurs, Windows can restore your work from your hard disk. When hybrid sleep is turned on, putting your computer into sleep automatically puts your computer into hybrid sleep. Hybrid sleep is typically turned on by default on desktop computers. Windows 7 works the way you want it to be.
In a world where you have to take serious decisions on protecting your kids visiting unauthorized and unnecessary web content, Windows 7 has taken many preventive steps not only ensuring the family safety but also a complete safety and a protective environment to remove massive virus and Trojan attacks to our own PCs. Windows Family Safety enhances you capabilities of to manage and monitor online activities such as selecting the web content your children see and approve who they talk to online with Hotmail, Messenger, and Windows Live Spaces. You also get helpful, easy-to-read reports of their online activity allowing you to manage and monitor your kids’ online activities in order to stay safer and better.
Windows Action Center is a central place to view alerts and take actions that can help keep Windows 7 operating system running smoothly. Action Center notifies you when items need your attention. While Action Center lists important messages about security and maintenance settings that need your attention, Red items in Action Center are labeled Important, and indicate significant issues that should be addressed soon, such as an outdated antivirus program that needs updating. Yellow items are suggested tasks that you should consider addressing, like recommended maintenance tasks.
You could use Action Center to make sure your firewall is on, your antivirus software is up to date, and your is computer set to install updates automatically. With Windows Defender you can get assistance to help prevent spyware and other potentially unwanted software from being installed on your computer without your knowledge. In Windows 7 User Account Control asks for your permission before installing software or opening certain kinds of programs that could potentially harm your computer or make it vulnerable to security threats.
Would you be still able to protect your data from loss, theft, or hackers in latest Windows? The answer is in Windows 7 platform as BitLocker. Improved for Windows 7 and available in the Ultimate edition, BitLocker helps keep everything from documents to passwords safer by encrypting the entire drive that Windows and your data inhabited. Once BitLocker is turned on, any file you save on that drive is encrypted automatically. On the other hand ‘BitLocker To Go’ a new feature of Windows 7 gives the lockdown treatment to easily-misplaced portable storage devices like USB flash drives and external hard drives. BitLocker locks down all your drives, so it offers the safety for your crucial and important data while securing them from prying eyes.
There are more fascinating facts to tell about latest Windows 7 and to run this version of operating system you must have the following hardware:
· 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
· 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
· 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
· DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
So wait for the new unleash of Windows family on 22 Octorber 2009.
