Microsoft Windows 7 new functionalities!

Steven Sinofsky, senior Vice-President discovered much new functionality and the new GUI "Scenic" for Windows 7.

Windows Vista and its nice graphical effects could already be thinking about Mac OS. Windows 7 adds another layer to the risk of irritating allergic to apples. The operation of the taskbar looks quite at the dock in Mac OS X.

The Windows 7 taskbar is not the only change. The Start menu will display the latest directly open documents or applications created by the main menu. Finally, the Windows Sidebar (Windows Sidebar) disappeared. The gadgets will therefore put on the desktop, anywhere ... as KDE 4!

The touch is fashionable, and Microsoft has already shown that surface mastered the concept. Windows 7 obviously cannot be silent on this trend, and manage, as Microsoft had shown in previous occasions, touch-screens. The integration will thrust: applications like Paint will benefit. Imagine yourself in the process of drawing on Paint, to zoom in with your fingers.

Windows Explorer also evolves. It will offer a new feature called Bookstores. Its purpose is to gather in one place all the files of the same type found on the local disk or on machines. It is an extension of the idea of search folders in Windows Vista, and more successful.

We should not take Windows 7 for a simple graphical refresh of Windows Vista. According to Microsoft, Windows 7 should be faster and more responsive, and use less memory, CPU or disk access.

Indeed, Steven Sinofsky suggested that NETBOOK would be capable of running Windows 7, BUT he didn’t mentioned what hardware that NETBOOK needs to have :>.

Windows 7 taskbar changes

Steven Sinofsky, the man held for years behind Office and who now heads the advanced Windows 7, said during the Microsoft PDC that the new taskbar of the next system would be mandatory. Mess into perspective.

Sinofsky is the one to whom we owe the appearance of ribbons in Office 2007. At the exit subsequently, the reactions were very mixed, particularly because he had to relearn how to use software or at least the organization of their features. In Windows 7, the taskbar adopt a new behavior, and this is the first time since Windows 95 that the publisher carries out such a change.

For Sinofsky, Windows has long been stuck in a “fear of change.” It is therefore assume more that want to make developers with the opportunities created by Vista. The biggest change comes from the operating base, akin to the Dock of Mac OS X: you put shortcuts in what appears to be a Quick Launch area, but these icons are framed when applications are launched. When you minimize one or more windows, they meet all their associated icons in this area.

The change should be less disruptive than Office 2007, since apart from a few basic principles, we should not learn the location of hundreds of features. Sinofsky also indicates that the office as a whole will gain in clarity, since Jump Lists, accessible from right-clicking on the icons, will meet a set of concepts.

A Jump List in theory contains two parts: one to access the latest documents opened by the application, dedicated to other functions. Windows Live Messenger for example, a Jump List concentrate active discussions, the change of status, and other features accessible from the notification area. Except that precisely the same area of notifications will be as clean for the benefit of the taskbar.

The taskbar is still evolving undoubtedly when Microsoft will launch its public beta. The views of users should eliminate the major flaws to be found in use.