Windows 7-A New Computing Experience

Microsoft Vista never made it big globally and in its soon to be

released Windows 7 OS, Microsoft is betting big and analysts are

claiming it to be one of the best after XP. What makes Windows 7 path

breaking is the clutter free GUI that is totally different from

Microsoft’s previous OS versions. To put it rather bluntly,

Windows 7 does not look like a traditional Windows OS most of us are

used to, what users gets in Windows 7 an experience of non Windows

software.  The case in the point is the unique difference one

gets as they start using Windows 7.






The
differentiators




Let’s look at the interface more closely. Windows 7 is a
multi-taskers delight and thanks to the

pretty intelligent task bar options that enables running multiple

programs in a uncluttered way. For instance features like Aero Peek,

Aero Snap and Aero Shake allows the users to preview the opened files

and what it means

is that one can see it without really clicking on that file from the

task bar. Yet another difference one sees when the programs are reduced

it goes down in the task bar as a ‘square’ and not

as big ‘rectangle’ as one sees in XP or Vista. With

Active Peek enabled one can see thumbnails of applications that are

running.






What all these features means is intelligent management of many
applications that are open and one can seamlessly switch over to apps

like from excel to word to a media player without any hang issues.

Moreover if you have four browser tabs the user can preview all the

windows without opening the tab that is to be seen. Clearly all these

features will be appreciated by multi-tasking users. Another cool

features like ‘Sticky Notes” makes for creating

digital Post-its on ones desktop. Another high point in Windows 7 is

that its touch screen enabled and for the first time with Notebooks

with touch screens, one will be able to use the touch features in the

OS.



Yet another area Windows 7 score ahead is in managing the device
drivers. If you run Windows 7 on a Vista compatible machines, the

chances are you might not be requiring any drivers at all Win 7 will

configure most of the drivers automatically. In terms of Network

Access, the process involved in acquiring the network address and

configuring it to a LAN or Wireless access is really fast and Microsoft

has done a considerable tweak in discovering Wireless and network

access devices.






While right now Microsoft has released the Release Candidate version of
Windows 7, and even before the final version, the RC has got rave

reviews across the world. Apart from the ground up GUI changes, the

biggest performance tweak in Windows 7 is the speed. Compared to XP and

Vista, Windows seven is the fastest OS Microsoft has developed ever.

But while in Vista user need to undergo huge hardware upgrades and in

Windows 7, Microsoft has kept the hardware specs to the minimum- so if

you have a PC running 1GHz processor, 1GB RAM and 16 GB of available

disk space, a user can run Windows 7 without any issues. But right now

the default PC configuration being 2 GHz processor with 3GB RAM,

running Windows 7 would not be an issue at all.



Windows 7 would be available in seven flavours from Starter to the
Ultimate editions. Unlike previous editions, Win 7 will come in one DVD

disc and users just need to enter the version of the product key to

activate it. On the flipside, many in the industry feel that the end

user pricing for Windows 7 is very steep-with Ultimate retail price

expected at USD $ 319 and Home Premium version at  USD $199.