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Windows is the latest release of Microsoft windows, a series of operting systems produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and busines perpose. It was released to maufacting on July 22, 2009, and reach gerernal reatail on October 22, 2009, less than three years after the release of its predecessor, vista.

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Windows 7 includes a number of new features, such as advances in touch and handwriting recognition, support for virtual hard disks, improved performance on multi-core processors. Many new items have been added to the Control Panel, including ClearType Text Tuner, Display Color Calibration Wizard, Gadgets, Recovery, Troubleshooting, Workspaces Center, Location and Other Sensors, Credential Manager, Biometric Devices, System Icons, and Display. Windows Security Center has been renamed to Windows Action Center (Windows Health Center and Windows Solution Center in earlier builds), which encompasses both security and maintenance of the computer. Readyboost on 32bit editions now supports up to 256 Gigabytes of extra allocation. Windows 7 also supports images in the RAW image format through the addition of Windows Imaging Component-enabled image decoders, which enables raw image thumbnails, previewing and metadata display in Windows Explorer, plus full-size viewing and slideshows in Windows Photo Viewer and Window Media Center.

This functionality is also accomplished with keyboard shortcuts. Unlike in Windows Vista, window borders and the taskbar do not turn opaque when a window is maximized with Windows Aero applied. Instead, they remain translucent.

1. Multi-touch in Win 7

With touch technology becoming the latest trend after Apple’s revolutionary multi-touch iPhone, Windows 7 has multi-touch for all the supported hardware. HP Touchsmart series is one of them.

2. Aero Peek

Aero Peek allows Win 7 users to instantly make all the opened windows transparent. So let say, you want to see the weather on Windows 7 sidebar Gadget, this will be very useful.

3. New Taskbar

Windows 7 desktop will look different now because of the new taskbar. You can now reorder the opened Window buttons. It has Jump Lists feature which will allow you to access common programs very easily. And you can see the full screen preview before switching to a window. As you can see above, Quick Launch bar and taskbar are merged together in Windows 7.

4. Games

Along with old Windows Vista games, Win 7 will have online version of Checkers, Spades and Backgammon. If you remember, recently there was a new robot game Tinker on Vista. This was a part of Vista Ultimate.

5. Media Center

Win 7 comes with enhanced Media Center experience. It will have Internet TV which will telecast MSN channels by default and will have a desktop sidebar gadget for the same too.

6. NetBook Edition

Netbooks are the light weight portable laptops used for browsing, email etc. It seems that by this year end we’ll see Netbooks by every major Brand like HP, Dell, Sony etc. Windows 7, apart from Ultimate Edition and Business edition will also have Netbook Edition. Though, of course it’ll be a stripped down version.

7. Performance and User Friendliness

Windows 7 will tremendously reduce the time to install an app. Also, now Windows will be less annoying with very less UAC prompt. For developers also, Win7 will reduce the time taken for developing Windows app.

Installation Step

Microsoft recently announced the public release of its new operating system Windows 7 beta version. This is available for download both for x86 (32-bit) and X64 (64-bit) hardware. For more information on system requirements and downloads, click here

If you have already installed WIndows Vista or Windows Server 2008 from scratch then this shouldn’t look too different for you.

Boot with the installation media and once past through the initial splasdh screen, select the Language and regional settings including keyboard layout and click Next.

Click Install Now button

Accept the License terms and click Next

Select Custom (advanced) option to perform a fresh installation

Select the disk and partition it if necessary and click next

This should start copying the files, expand it and perform feature and update installation and reboot your PC.

After reboot the installation continues the configurations and reboot again for first login.

Windows will take you through the initial setup of your PC, starting with setting up a user and the name of the PC. Once entered, click next

Set the password for the user and click Next

Enter the product key. At the time of Download, Microsoft would have provided you with a product key for evaluation valid until the 1st July 2009. Enter the key and click Next

Setup Windows Updates as per your requirement (default to install recommended and important updates is recommended)

Set the date and time for your PC and the Day light savings for your country (if any) and click next

Setup your Network type. This should try and connect to your Network

Windows will then setup a password for your homegroup (similar to the Workgroup in Windows XP and earlier). You can choose to skip this step if you want to configure it later.