The web results might show that the most anticipated release of 2009 is AVATAR. But folks don’t forget that the major release of 2009 that is expected to hit more than billions of desktops, laptops, tablet laptops and netbooks is the WINDOWS 7. The Microsoft Corporation had fixed the date for its general retail availability on last week of October 2009. The Beta version of this operating system which was released on January 2009 had a grand opening and the users found a great deal of difference from its predecessor windows vista. Now let’s see some basic differences between the beta version of windows 7 and windows vista.
Let us begin with the performance aspect. Windows 7 has a much more appealing look and greater performance than windows vista. The boot features have been modified so that it takes less time to boot when compared to windows vista. It also takes less time to install applications and in developing windows applications. After the introduction of Apple’s multi-touch iphone the touch technology is definitely the latest trend and windows 7 has multi-touch for all supported hardware. Windows 7 has aero peek feature with the help of which all opened windows look transparent.
The Media Center available in windows 7 has internet TV which telecasts all the MSN channels by default and can be used in the desktop sidebar as a gadget. So you can have music, movie trailers and all the latest news across the world right in front of your desktop. Windows 7 has a new effective and attractive task bar with the help of which you can reorder opened windows and you can also have a full screen preview of the opened windows before switching to a window. In addition to the old windows vista games, windows 7 also has online version of Backgammon, Checkers and Spades. The NetBook edition of windows 7 is also a new feature but it is only a stripped down version developed to serve netbook’s purpose alone.
Features like windows mail, windows calendar, windows movie maker and windows photo gallery which were available in previous versions of windows will not be integrated in windows 7 rather some of them will be available as free windows live essentials suite. With minimal new features when compared to vista, windows 7 is a decent and more focussed upgrade in terms of application and software compatibility in the windows hierarchy. New features like multi-touch and enhanced task bar might please the users. Bill Gates, earlier in an interview informed that the next version of windows will be “more user-centric”. So lets wait and see whether windows 7 meets the user’s expectations or not.
