Windows 7 has a revamped All Programs mechanism. It is quite an improvement over the previous system.
I’ve never liked the All Programs (or just Programs in Windows XP and before) menu. Like many multi-level menus, it is a rather flighty thing, with submenus disappearing if your mouse pointer falls off the edge of a menu, and with lots of programs to visually scan before you find the right one.
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Windows 7 has gadgets on the desktop, just like Vista. Or almost like Vista.
If you are familiar with Vista gadgets, the main difference in Windows 7 is that there is no sidebar.
A gadget is a kind of display gizmo that sits on your desktop. Here are some examples of Windows 7 gadgets:
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If you’ve been running Windows 7 Beta or Windows 7 RC (release candidate), you may be wondering if you can upgrade to the official release version of Windows 7.
The official answer is no.
Microsoft has decided that if you are running Windows 7 beta or RC, you have to start over with a clean install. [click to continue…]
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Windows 7 Ultimate has been cracked, and it is not even available to the general public.
The new Microsoft operating system was just released to manufacturing (RTM) last week, and already a leaked version has been cracked. [click to continue…]
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Windows 7 has some nice windows resizing tricks. It also retains some of the tricks introduced in Vista, that you may not know about, even if you are a regular Vista user.
New to Windows 7 are title bar mouse gestures. [click to continue…]
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Windows 7 looks like it will be adopted by Intel much more quickly than Vista, according to Intel’s executive vice president, Sean Maloney.
This combines a back-handed complement for Windows 7 and a bit of a slap in the face regarding Vista. Given the long history of interdependence between Microsoft and Intel, this is an unusually strong statement. [click to continue…]
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Windows 7 offers some new ways to work with windows – opening, closing, moving them etc.
Microsoft has also removes some ways of working with windows, which I’m a bit disappointed with, but there you have it – they can’t make it too easy to work with their new operating system now, can they? [click to continue…]
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Windows 7 has some modifications to how you switch tasks.
In most ways, it works the same as it ever has, going back to Windows 3.1. Alt-tab still cycles through the windows you have open on your desk top. You can still go through the cycle in reverse by pressing shift-alt-tab. [click to continue…]
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Windows 7 accessories have seen some nice upgrades. These improvements are long over-due.
The Windows 7 calculator has some nice new features. The keyboard is subtly redesigned and is easier to read.
You now have the option of a a multi-line display that shows a history of what you’ve keyed into the calculator. [click to continue…]
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Windows 7 will ship with multiple browsers in the European Union distribution.
When Windows 7 installs, users will be able to select from a variety of rival browsers.
Microsoft has been dogged by antitrust issues for years in the EU, largely due to a suit brought by Opera, makers of the Opera browser, a rival to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
At first it looked like Microsoft would distribute Windows 7 without any browser in the European version. This begged the question: how do you install a browser on an operating system that has no browser, and therefore no way to upload an alternative browser?
I’m not a fan of Internet Explorer. The first thing I do after installing a new operating system is to open Internet Explorer and download FireFox.
The final solution Microsoft has proposed for the EU version of Windows 7 solves this problem by making any browser equally accessible to the average user.
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