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Sneak Peek into Windows 7
What Makes Windows 7 Great?
Windows Vista: Lessons Learnt
Fundamentals
Improved Fundamentals
Memory
Reference set, Graphics
Disk I/O
Registry Reads, Indexer
Power
DVD Playback, Panel,
Timers
Windows 7 Builds on Windows Vista
Basic Windows 7 Light-up
Taskbar and Jump Lists
Libraries and Windows Explorer
Windows 7 Taskbar
Enhanced user experience
jumplists
Quick and easy launch of applications
Easier to manage windows
The user is in control
Clean and lightweight
Standard Windows UX guidelines
All of Microsoft’s products
Windows 7 Taskbar – Icons
Face of your program
Large and small icons
Color hot-track
Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump Lists
Mini Start Menu for your program
Surface key destinations and tasks
Customizable
Accessible via right-click and via drag
APIs use the name “Destination List”
Windows 7 Taskbar – Thumbnails
Remote-control for a window
Surface key commands
Accessible from taskbar thumbnail
Up to seven buttons
Basic Light Up
Windows 7 Taskbar in action
Demo
Windows Explorer
Massive growth in digital content
Users demand powerful and intuitive tools to custom visualization, search, organize and browse
Two primary ways for finding data:
Browse by location, context, visual cues
Search by name, metadata and full-text
Windows 7 "New" Explorer
Basic Light Up
Windows Explorer and Libraries in Action
Demo
Richer Experiences
Richer Application Expereinces
Multi-touch
Ribbon User Interface
Sensor and Location
Enhanced Graphics
Multi - Touch Is Here
MT is defined a two or more independently traceable touch points.
Consumers
MT scored very favorably in user testing
Proven successful touch interfaces
Multi-Touch offers clear differentiation
with a high “WOW” factor for consumers
Multi-touch enhances on-the-go use
and enable new scenarios
Hardware
Multi-touch capable machines in market today in a broad set of form factors
Windows Ribbon
Proven and very successful UX concept
Improve usability and discoverability
Increase user productivity
Improve developer productivity
Based on common architectural
Eliminate much of Win32 UI development
Windows Ribbon
In-box with Windows 7, redistribution available to Vista
Win32 API,
Feature parity (or close) with Microsoft Office 2007 Ribbon, and WPF Ribbon
Windows Ribbon - Controls