Microsoft Windows 7

Microsoft Corporation is a global company founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975. It builds up, manufactures and licenses a wide range of software products for computers. Its most profitable product ‘Microsoft Windows’ enjoys 91% of the market share worldwide. Microsoft Windows is a software operating system and has a wide range of series such as Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows 7 and many more.

Windows 7 is the latest version of Microsoft Windows as is available since October 22, 2009. Bill Gates quoted this version to “be more user-centric”. I would like to list out the new and changed features contained in this latest version.

• Multi-touch support
• Handwriting recognition
• Enhanced multi-core processors
• mproved boot performance
• Support for virtual hard disks
• Direct access
• Kernel improvements
• Supports for systems using Heterogeneous Multi-adapter
• Better media features
• New items like Clear Type Text Tuner, Gadgets, Recovery, Display Color Calibration Wizard, Troubleshooting, etc are added to ‘Control Panel’
• Windows Security Center will now be known as Windows Action Center
• And many more…

With the uncountable features added, there are many others that are removed from Windows 7 that was earlier a part of Windows Vista. They are:

• Windows Photo Gallery
• Windows Movie Maker
• Windows Calendar
• Windows Mail

It’s amazing to know that it received huge number of orders through amazon.co.uk. It exceeded the total demand of Windows Vista for the first 17 weeks in only eight hours. It also broke Amazon’s pre-order record previously made by the seventh Harry Potter Book.

For more detailed information on Windows 7, you can visit the following URLs:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7

- Brian Kingsley, Director of Technical Services