Windows 7 - (Formerly
codenamed Blackcomb and Vienna) is the next release of Microsoft
Windows, an operating system produced by Microsoft for use on personal
computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, Tablet PCs,
and media center PCs.
Microsoft stated in 2007 that it is
planning Windows 7 development for a three-year time frame starting
after the release of its predecessor, Windows Vista, but that the final
release date will be determined by product quality.
Unlike its predecessor, Windows 7
is intended to be an incremental upgrade with the goal of being fully
compatible with existing device drivers, applications, and hardware.
Presentations given by the company in 2008 have focused on multi-touch
support, a redesigned Windows Shell with a new taskbar, a home
networking system called HomeGroup, and performance improvements. Some
applications that have been included with prior releases of Microsoft
Windows, most notably Windows Mail (formerly Outlook Express), Windows
Movie Maker, and Windows Photo Gallery, are no longer included with the
operating system; they are instead offered separately as part of the
Windows Live Essentials suite.
Windows 7
- It's the next version of Windows for PCs, and it's the result of
working hand-in-hand with our partners and with people who use Windows
in the real world every day. We're paying particular attention to the
things they're telling us are important to them and will make their PCs
work the way they want them to - things like enhanced reliability,
responsiveness, and faster boot and shut-down. We're also trying to
make their everyday tasks easier, like connecting and syncing devices,
browsing the web, and managing a home network.
Of course, we're
also working on new capabilities, so people will be able to do things
with Windows 7 that were difficult (or perhaps impossible) to do with
PCs before. Finally, we're working hard to ensure that Windows 7 will
run on any PC and work with any program that works today with Windows
Vista, so upgrading from Windows Vista will be easy.
FEATURES:
Windows 7
includes a number of new features, such as advances in touch, speech,
and handwriting recognition, support for virtual hard disks, improved
performance on multi-core processors, improved boot performance, and
kernel improvements.
According to reports sent
to TG Daily, the Milestone 1 build of Windows 7 adds support for
systems using multiple heterogeneous graphics cards from different
vendors and a new version of Windows Media Center. New features in
Milestone 1 also reportedly include Gadgets being integrated into
Windows Explorer, a Gadget for Windows Media Center, the ability to
visually pin and unpin items from the Start Menu and Taskbar, improved
media features, the XPS Essentials Pack being integrated, Windows
PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE), and a multiline
Calculator featuring Programmer and Statistics modes along with unit
conversion.
Reports indicate that a feedback
tool included in Milestone 1 lists some coming features: the ability to
store Internet Explorer settings on a Windows Live account, updated
versions of Paint and WordPad, and a 10-minute install process. In
addition, improved network connection tools might be included.
Many
new items have been added to the Control Panel including: Accelerators,
ClearType Text Tuner, Display Color Calibration Wizard, Gadgets,
Infrared, Recovery, Troubleshooting, Workspaces Center, Location and
Other Sensors, Credential Manager, Biometric Devices, System Icons,
Windows Solution Center, and Display. Windows Security Center has been
renamed the Windows Solution Center (Windows Health Center in earlier
builds) which encompass both security and maintenance of the computer.
The
taskbar has seen the biggest visual changes, where the Quick Launch has
been merged with the buttons to create an enhanced taskbar or what
Microsoft internally refers to as the "Superbar". This enhanced taskbar
also enables the Jump Lists feature to allow easy access to common
tasks.
According to released PDC 2008, which was
held 27-30 October 2008, session information, Windows 7 discussions
will cover "enhancements to the taskbar, Start Menu, thumbnails and
their desktop elements", a new networking API with support for building
SOAP based web services in native code (as opposed to.NET based WCF web
services), new features to shorten application install times, reduced
UAC prompts, simplified development of installation packages,[56] and
improved globalization support through a new Extended Linguistic
Services API. Windows 7 will also contain a new FireWire (IEEE 1394)
stack that fully supports IEEE 1394b with S800, S1600 and S3200 data
rates.
At WinHEC 2008 Microsoft announced that
color depths of 30-bit and 48-bit would be supported in Windows 7 along
with the wide color gamut scRGB (which for HDMI 1.3 can be converted
and output as xvYCC). The video modes supported in Windows 7 are 16-bit
sRGB, 24-bit sRGB, 30-bit sRGB, 30-bit with extended color gamut sRGB,
and 48-bit scRGB.
BUILDS:
Build 6801 On
8 October 2008, screenshots of Windows 7 build 6801 were leaked. On 28
October 2008, Microsoft distributed build 6801 to attendees at its
Professional Developers Conference (PDC). It has since been leaked to
bittorrent networks. It features an enhanced taskbar similar to the one
in build 6933 although it is disabled by default. An unofficial patch
has been released to enable the new taskbar in build 6801.
Pre-Beta 1 Microsoft
also demonstrated build 6933.winmain.081020-1842 during the PDC, but
did not give it to attendees. On 14 November 2008, screenshots of
Windows 7 build 6936 were leaked by Winfuture. On 20 November 2008,
Microsoft posted screenshots of build 6948 on the Engineering Windows 7
blog. In early December, WinFutere.de leaked screenshots of Build 6956,
which demonstrated a new bootscreen. (Announced by WinFuture since
Build 6954) and several improvements. At the WinHEC in China an
attendee from the conference leaked a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) image of
Windows 7 Build 6956, then an ISO image was published, in this same
site we can see many new screenshots of this build. Lately, Paul
Thurrott posted several screenshots on his website of a newer build.
Beta 1 Microsoft has confirmed that Beta 1 will be handed out at MSDN Developer Conference on 13th January 2009 in the form of a DVD.
Release Candidate The release candidate for Windows 7 will be available after Beta 1.
Final Build While
officially Microsoft has stated that Windows 7 will be released three
years after Vista was shipped, the company has indicated that it plans
to release Windows 7 in mid-2009, in time for installation on PCs that
will ship for the Christmas 2009 buying season
RELEASE INFORMATION: Release Date: 10/22/2009 Directory Name: Microsoft Windows 7 32Bit & 64Bit Supplier: Microsoft Type: Operating System Format: DVD - ISO Number of Discs: 01 Archives: 1 x 2.43 GB (x86) 1 x 3.00 GB (x64) Protection: Key Activation Requirements: CPU: 2.0GHz / RAM: 1Gb / HDD: 12gb
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