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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Microsoft have announced that Windows 7 will be ready for Christmas. Unfortunately not this Christmas, but next year, Christmas 2009.

This differ from what Microsoft have been telling the media before, that Windows 7 will not be ready at least until year 2010. If Windows 7 ships in 2010, it will be 3 years after the official release of Microsoft Windows Vista.

Some industry observers speculated that by trying to release Windows 7 on Christmas 2009, Microsoft is trying to copy the success of Windows XP, which was officially launched on October 2001, just in time for 2001 holiday shopping spree.

Whether Windows 7 will continue the success of Windows XP or not, we will just have to wait and see.

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Shocking as it may seems, 7000 people have downloaded the new Windows 7 from several torrent sites such as Mininova and The Pirate Bay.

Windows 7 torrent download from Mininova

A report by CNET have confirmed this. The Windows 7 version that are being downloaded from torrent sites are the Windows 7 build 6801, the one without the new taskbar enhancements. CNET also reported that according to some user who have downloaded Windows 7 from torrent sites, and have tested the new Operating System from Microsoft, most were not impressed by the features in Windows 7.

Meanwhile, quoting another user post on The Pirate Bay by the handle “rapion125″ ,

“This is a STABLE release. It is not a buggy version that BSODs every few minutes. It’s fully functional, and I will use this over Vista because despite being in pre-beta, it still kicks Vista’s ass.”

Looking from the total of downloads of Windows 7 build 6801 from those torrent sites, we can only assume that expectations are high from Microsoft Windows users on this new operating system from Microsoft.

Will Microsoft deliver, or dissappoint us again is for time to tell.

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Asus CEO, Jerry Shen has announced that Asus Eee PC will come with Windows 7 instead of Windows Vista in the second half of next year.

Regarding to the previous post, where Windows 7 will support two touch screen notebook and claimed by Asus that they will ship notebook with two touchscreen functionality with Windows 7, the latest news that Asus Eee PC will come with Windows 7 is not a surprise to the Industry.

I would say that Asus is moving on the right track with the future implementation of Windows 7 on their hardware.

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Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer has revealed that Windows 7 will support Multi touch user interface.

This fact was made more interesting by ASUS claiming that they will ship new notebooks that have dual screen, with both screen having touchscreen functionality in the first quater of next year. This notebooks will have touch screen on both side and will ship with Windows 7.

If Windows 7 really does support Multi Touch user interface, and ASUS will ship their dual touchscreen notebook as claimed, we can be sure that other manufacturer will follow ASUS dual touchscreen notebook, and this design could be the future of mobile computing.

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• Vista Service Pack 2 will be available before Windows 7 (2)

Talk have been circulating on the net about the release of Vista Service Pack 2 before the launch of public beta Windows 7 in mid December this year.

It also have been confirmed that Microsoft have been delivering a beta version of SP2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 to some of the selected Microsoft hardware and software partner. Microsoft has also put up a page on “Information about Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista Service Pack 2″ at their website.

Although there are no details available on the features of the new Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, there are claim that Microsoft will integrate Hyper-V with the Windows Server 2008 in the release of the Service Pack 2.

What makes me wonder if whether Microsoft will integrate and introduce some of the features of Windows 7 in the incoming release of Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.

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It is official that the next Microsoft Operating System codename “Windows 7″ will be call Windows 7.

A post from Windows Vista Blog by Mike Nash has stated that they will call the next version of windows, currently codenamed Windows 7, as Windows 7. This is a first for Microsoft Operating System, as the all the previous version of Microsoft Windows Operating System final name are call not with their codename.

For example, the Operating System by Windows codename “Whistler” are named Windows XP, and “Longhorn” turn out to be Windows Vista.

Nash explain by referring the cause of Windows codename “Windows 7″ to be call Windows 7 due to the fact that this is the seventh release of Microsoft Windows Operating System. It seems that things could not got simpler than that.

Keep reading this blog for more information of the upcoming release of Microsoft Windows Operating System codename “Windows 7″ , or you can subscribe to our feed for latest updates.

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Do you know that the Windows key that sits between your Ctrl and Alt key when combined with other key will produce shortcuts that will save you a lot of time and increase your productivity.

The windows key, or also known as a Flag key, Start key, or Menu key is originally introduced during the Windows 95 Operating System. With the introduction of Microsoft Windows XP, the Windows key were included in every keyboard manufactured after 1st September 2003, by (you guessed who) Microsoft. And, not to be suprised, Microsoft are pushing that all new keyboard will incorporated the new Windows Vista logo (circle) as the Windows key instead of the traditional Windows key logo.

Back to the usage of Windows Key Shortcuts. Below are the shortcuts that you can use by combining the with Windows key:

• Windows Key to Open the Start Menu
• Windows Key + D to Show Desktop
• Windows Key + E to Open My Computer
• Windows Key + F to Open Search
• Windows Key + F + Control Key to Open Search For Computers program
• Windows Key + F1 to Open Help
• Windows Key + L to Switch Between Users, or Lock desktop while unattended
• Windows Key + M to Minimize All Windows
• Windows Key + M + Shift Key to restore after Minimizing All Windows
• Windows Key + R to Open Run Dialog
• Windows Key + U to open Utility Manager
• Windows Key + Y to Open Yahoo Messenger (if loaded)
• Windows Key + Pause Key To Open System Properties
• Windows Key + Tab Key To Switch Between Active Programs
• Windows Key + X to enter Windows Mobility Center (Windows Vista+ only)
• Windows Key + P to switch Projection modes (clone, extend, single, multiple monitors, etc.) (Windows 7 only)

The usage of Windows Key shortcuts will definitely save you a lot of mouse click if you could master them, and incorporate them in your daily Windows computing.

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Windows Server 7, the server edition of a new Operating System by Microsoft is going to be called Windows Server 2008 R2, according Ward Ralston which is the Windows Server Group product manager

Windows Server 2008 R2

Ward Ralston were quoted explaining why Windows Server 7 will be called Windows Server 2008 R2;

Throughout the launch of Windows Server 2008 we said we would be keeping with a 2/4 year major/minor release cadence with the next version of Windows Server. So it is appropriate that the name of the next version reflect that - Windows Server 2008 R2.

Oddly though, Windows Server 7 was scheduled to be released on 2010 if Microsoft follow their roadmap accordingly.

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