Window 7 Introduction

Windows 7 has finally been released after months of beta testing and the crushing disappointment of Windows Vista. Although Vista was supposed to be everything that Windows users were looking for, it is probably one of Microsoft’s greatest disasters and did even worse than Windows Me.

Although Vista may have sunk, Windows 7 is everything that Vista promised to be and more! Vista users should upgrade to Windows 7 as it includes enhancements from the Vista program as well as many additional features that makes it worth while. Windows 7 can be downloaded for the small amount of $119.99, but the price is not the only thing people gets people fired up.

WHY YOU SHOULD UPGRADE

While there are various reasons that convince people to upgrade, the two most popular reasons seem to be the speed and exciting new attributes. That is exactly what Windows 7 is all about, exciting new features that won’t handicap the speed.

The operating structure has an impression insignificantly larger than that of Windows XP. Windows XP arised in a time when computers had only a fragment of the memory of modern computers, specifically in terms of hard drives and RAM. This means that users will experience the same speed, if not faster that they came to love with XP, but with all the fancy new features computer users everywhere only dreamed of in 2001 when Windows XP launched.

FEATURES OF WINDOWS 7

One of the firsts things that Windows 7 users will note is the enhanced Graphic User Interface, other than the speed. The main thing of the GUI is to make sense of all the zeros and ones behind the scene in the operating system. In Windows 7, the entire GUI has been turned upside down and made more efficient. Some of the features users liked from Vista, like the Aero glass, still exist, but now the task bar operates like the "Dock" feature made popular by Mac OSX.

This handy feature provides point-and-click accessibility to the user’s favorite programs, files, documents, etc., while making it easy to access minimized windows. Adding to that, Windows 7 also offers increased preview ability. Enhanced preview ability means that with Windows 7 has a “peek” feature where you can open a full screen snapshot of minimized windows to see what the window contains, other than Vista’s small snapshot of the window. When pressing the windows key + T, users can scroll through the open windows like a “filmstrip”.

Windows 7 also allows users to open a file by dragging over the application. Screens can be minimized by bumping the top  of the screens. A new “shake” feature allows users to minimize all screens, except for the active screen, by “shaking” the windows. Some of the popular Windows programs, such as Paint, has been made more user-friendly by adding the Ribbon feature, a feature that popularized in Office 2007, as standard on all Microsoft applications and applets. Windows 7 uses fewer resources while being user-friendlier. There are so many great surprises in store that the decision to upgrade Vista to Windows 7 couldn’t be easier.