Windows 7 New Features?

A lot of talks have been going on in the IT industry about Windows 7. Surprisingly, instead of being a definitely new Operating System, Windows 7 has come out to be just like its predecessor, Windows Vista. But with promising enhancement and improvement.

Windows 7 Graphical User Interface

Microsoft has chosen a different path on launching their new product this time. Instead of promising the “Wow” factor in their new Operating System, Microsoft, especially Steve Ballmer was saying that Windows 7 will be just like the last one (Windows Vista), but better.

A far cry when they launch Windows XP before.

Let us look at what is new in Microsoft Windows 7, briefly.

Windows 7 has Improved Graphical User Interface
Windows 7 looks a lot like Windows Vista. But that is not a bad thing. Just as Windows Vista borrow heavily from Windows XP before. The only enhancement in the User Interface area of Windows 7 that everybody been talking about is when you hover your mouse cursor over a taskbar button will bring up horizontal preview of thumbnails of each documents open in the application. Hovering over those thumbnail preview will bring full screen preview of the document. The taskbar button can also be drag around freely.

Windows 7 provide some New Applications
Most talk about in the applications department are the “Sticky Notes”. Notes can be posted around your desktop and then gathered to a virtual corkboard. If you create a new note, it will be saved automatically.

Windows 7 have Better Security
Same old news. Every new Operating System from Microsoft will have better security. This time the great leap would be in peripherals using the USB port. This time, you can set a group policy that will force USB drives to be encrypted before files are being copied. You can also disable USB ports through the Windows 7 Operating System.

Windows 7 is Less Annoying
This time the User Account Control (UAC) enforcement tools can be adjusted from Always Notify to Never Notify. Windows 7 UAC can also be setup to only notify the user when programs try to install software applications.

To sum it up, the enhancement are useful, but as a big leap from another Operating System to another, it is not enough to make people brimming with excitement to switch to the new Operating System. Microsoft might as well release a Service Pack to Microsoft Vista and included those enhancement with it.

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