09-05-2011, 02:36 PM
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WINDOWS 7
Introduction to Windows 7
Windows 7 is an upcoming version of Microsoft Windows, a series of operating systems developed by Microsoft for use in PCs, business computers etc.
Successor of Windows Vista.
New features are included and some features that were already present in Windows Vista are removed, generates Windows 7.
Intends at more user-friendly behaviour and all new appearance.
Have a look…
Sinking the Sea….
Originally a version of Windows named Blackcomb was planned as the successor of Windows Vista.
Developers wished to give emphasis on searching and querying data and an advanced storage system called WinFS to enable such scenarios.
Blackcomb was renamed to Vienna in 2006 and again to Windows 7 in 2007.
Windows 7 was planned to be designed as “user-centric” and it also focus on performance and improvements. To make it practical, the company uses new tracing tools to measure the performance of the operating system in many areas.
What is WinFS?
WinFS (Windows Future Storage) is the code name for the data storage and management system developed by Microsoft.
WinFS includes relational databases for storage of information and allows any type of information to be stored on it, provided there is a well-defined schema for the type.
Individual data items are related together by relationships, which are either inferred by the system or explicitly specified by the user.
As the data has a well-defined schema, any application can reuse the data.
Related data can be effectively stored and retrieved as relationships are present for each data type.
Step to Windows 7—Flaws of Vista
One of the highly criticized feature of Windows Vista is the User Access Control, which prompts up a dialog box seeking user’s permission to continue or stop whenever a system-level change is made.
Even the default user account (Administrator account) which will be created during installation could not bypass the UAC.
Only two features were present for UAC in Windows Vista. Turn on UAC or Turn off UAC so that the user could not have much control.
Features of Windows 7
Touch and handwriting recognition system.
Support for virtual hard disks.
Improved performance on multi-core processors.
Enhanced boot performance.
Support for systems with multiple heterogeneous graphic cards.
A new version of Windows Media Center, making playing videos and audios more flexible and easy.
Improved media features.
Redesigned Calculator with multiline capabilities including Programmer and Statistics mode along with unit conversion.
Windows Action Center replaces Windows Security Center, which encompasses both security and maintenance of the computer.
Windows 7 allow users to disable Internet Explorer.
Windows Media Player 12 providing much more multimedia facilities than ever before.
Windows 7 with touch compatibility
Advantages of Windows 7
Improved UAC (User Access Control)
Enhanced Taskbar
Less storage management.
Improved peripheral configuration.
Better and faster performance.
Touch Compatibility for all supported hardware.
More security and power to the user and the system.
Windows PowerShell, the Microsoft version of a Linux terminal.
Windows 7 Editions
Windows 7 Starter
Windows 7 Home Basic
Windows 7 Home Premium
Windows 7 Professional
Windows 7 Enterprise
Windows 7 Ultimate
Hardware Requirements
Architecture 32-bit OS 64-bit OS
Processor 1 GHz processor
Memory (RAM) 1 GB of RAM 2 GB of RAM
Graphics card Support for DirectX 9 with 128
MB graphics memory
HDD free space 16 GB of disk space 20 GB of disk space
Optical drive DVD drive
Drawbacks of Windows 7
Disk space consumed by the 64-bit version of Windows 7 is too large.
Heavy usage of memory by the 64-bit version of the OS.
Since the full version of Windows 7 has not yet released many drawbacks are still to come out.
Conclusion
Windows 7 is the forthcoming version of Microsoft Windows series.
The OS provides more flexibility and ease of usage to the user compared with the other versions of Windows.
New and attractive features like Touch and handwriting recognition system has been incorporated.
Designed as more user-friendly.
A large number of peripherals can be supported.
Demerits of Vista has been rectified in this new version.
Performance is drastically improved.
