many people who waited in his release windows 7, successor to Windows Vista. Not as usual, Microsoft’s many secret new features of Windows 7, but this secrecy has ended, Microsoft gave developers a lot of leaks about the leaks. Windows 7 at PDC. Tehcnologizer the opportunity to try Windows 7 says that this OS seems … really quite prospective!
- First, you need to know that Windows 7 will not have drastic changes in terms of software architecture as Vista from Windows XP – Microsoft itself has promised that users who upgrade from Vista meakukan will have no compatibility problems. Because Windows 7 is not much change in the behind the scenes, Microsoft can focus on the development experience of the use of the OS itself and not on other technical aspects such as security and stability.
Most of the changes that are packed Windows 7 seeks to increase flexibility and user convenience, and below are some of the new features of Windows 7 which is already visible in the Microsoft PDC demonstrations.
- Taskbar
Get the biggest changes since it first debuted in Windows 95. Windows 7 is no longer showing a small application icons complete with the name of the application but only large icons similar to Mac OS X. List window that is displayed when placing the mouse over the application icon is replaced with the user interface (UI) “ribbon” which displays thumbnails of open windows sideways.
Other equipment connected to the computer as the camera will also appear in the taskbar with the application window. Altogether these features make Windows 7 look attractive.
- System Tray
Officially called the “Notification Area,” Microsoft finally allows users the tools to organize your desktop area that is often messy. Users can have any icons that appear in the System Tray, change the icon’s position and whether they are allowed to draw the attention of the user with notification.
- Jump List
Jump menu list will appear in the Start Menu or when users click on one of the Taskbar application, giving the user several options to perform various actions that supported the application. The figure below shows the jump list of Windows Media Player (WMP) which gives the user the option to play the song, see the last songs played, and much more.
- User Account Control (UAC) Better
UAC is one of the most hated features of Windows Vista users. Now in addition to the option “On” and “Off,” the user can choose to UAC only appears when installing an application or when an application to change the configuration of Windows only. Not yet known whether these changes enough to make the UAC from enemies became friends, but these changes will make at least the Windows UAC is more friendly.
- Performance
Microsoft says that they made many changes to improve performance and stability of Windows 7 as reduce boot time by enabling several applications in parallel, a new memory management methods and more. It’s too early to talk about performance, we have to wait for a version that is almost complete for a benchmark that means, but according to Technologizer, Windows 7 feels very fast to operate on a borrowed Dell laptop Microsoft – and cleared of bloatware.
- Device Stage
This new feature to collect all things related to the peripherals in one place to facilitate such user configuration, features, documentation and even printer ink buying services and others.
- Libraries
If you’re familiar concepts such as the library for songs that have iTunes, the concept of libraries in Windows 7 also will not be foreign to you. This feature collects all the files in your PC according to type into their respective libraries to facilitate media management. For example, all the photos of all the PC and the network will be collected in a photo library which can be accessed in one place like the picture below.
- HomeGroups
Windows 7 introduces a new feature called HomeGroups network that aims to facilitate a network of multiple computers to share files and peripherals – as if all that lies in a same PC. Although the features of Windows Networking had always aimed at, in fact, the configuration to use the network printer is still too difficult for most users.
- “Peeking” (Peering)
Peeking features in Windows 7 enables users to quickly read the content in a window without the need to interact with these windows. Placing the mouse over the thumbnail window on Task Bar will change all the open windows to be transparent except the selected window. In addition to “peek” window of user specific applications can also peek Windows desktop.
- Sidebar No Longer Used
When compared with Mac OS X widget that can be placed on the desktop, the most striking difference from Microsoft’s gadget is peletakannya the sidebar on the right of the screen. In W7, sidebar is omitted because it was considered too much with places available and gadgets can now be placed directly on the desktop. Although this could also be done in Vista.
- ITunes Compatibility
WMP now supports two Apple favorite media formats: AAC for audio and H.264 for video. WMP also can find an existing iTunes library on the network and play the contents. Apple’s Fairplay DRM is not supported, but somehow play a video podcast looks pretty bad resolution in WMP.
- WMP Minimalist
When you right-click on a media file in Windows Explorer and use WMP to play it, WMP will appear in a minimalist fashion that does not dominate your desktop. You also can play the media at the preview pane of Windows Explorer without the need to launch the WMP at all.
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