Windows 7 Product Guide provides a detailed look at the many new and improved features in Windows 7. With this product guide, you would find it much easy to fully understand Windows 7. Windows 7 Product Guide will supply accurate source of information to make Windows 7 work the way you want and new things become available. IT professionals also find the useful inforamtion about how to make people productive anywhere in Windows 7 Product Guide.

This product guide is working in both XPS and PDF formats. Consequently, you need to either install an XPS Reader (included in Windows 7 and Windows Vista) or Adobe Acrobat reader to view the documents. And the operating system should be Windows XP/Vista/7.

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It has been so much exciting, Windows 7 eventually launched after being guessed, discussed and waited on plenty of attentions and hopes. Marking as an important day, Microsoft firstly expressed their much appreciation to those ready cooperators and over 1 billion users even perhaps some of them have just had a fresh trial of Windows 7 before.

Windows 7 is aiming at providing an easier, faster and more stable PC, that means, it provides new chance and experience to realize constant fresh ideas in the following years. Over 3,000 Microsoft engineers, 50,000 developers and more than 8 million users, together built Windows 7 as a huge "Wishing Wall", in turn, Windows 7 responded all of us perfectly and developed a good report to the people who are interested in.

As we are waiting and watching, how exactly Windows 7 perform? What's new in Windows 7? Of the dozens and dozens of features, here we illustrate some you'll especially like: Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft set the Windows 7 final day on 22nd, October. Now the RTM stage is processing and ensuring to pave a new operating system way on that day. Well, we are entering a new era in next less than three months. So, are you really ready for it and getting all your programs be there entering perfectly in Windows 7? Basically speaking, there are three necessary parts to fix previously in a program way from Window XP/Vista to Windows 7. Check the details as follows:

Windows 7 Compatibility
At the beginning, a great many people have been worried about the 7 compatibility. But now for sure, your system will work normally on Windows 7 once it is OK previously on Vista (Device Drivers included). We suggest you an upgrade or a compatibility trial if XP or 2000 has any problems on Vista instead of direct Windows 7 switch. One more thing is, you should better check your software entirely and find out whether there were any updating space, for example, version upgrade, data redirection, IE protecting mode. The 7 is providing a nearly perfect operating guideline and you should also provide a high-level running space.

Performance Optimization
The second part after normal installation is to find out a better performance and experience optimization, especially those new functions on Windows 7. Super bar providing more information in a direct way, Windows 7 Library, service trigger, power management optimization, troubleshooting platform, those new functions will definitely ensure you a much wider and easier optimized experience in an immediate manner.

New Windows 7 Features
This section is ready when the above two parts passed. Programs run on Windows 7 effectively. Working appropriately with those new features on 7 will improve a user experience in the course of nature and get your software or programs superior to others. Ribbon interface, multi-touch, sensor and position platform or new graphic show in Windows 7 seems quite interesting and beautiful. Some other new features are also ready for users to feel and try.

We are all waiting and hearing from notable changes from RC. Since Beta, Microsoft Windows 7 has brought so many surprises and we are busying on enjoying those. To our satisfaction, Windows 7 changes all the way to RC. Let's see this time how different and advanced features RC take for us.

Basically, Windows 7 insists on users'feedback and put into practice and development all the time. Based on Beta, does RC own a series of feedback? The answer is definitely yes. Well then, see the desktop improvement first!

Desktop experience
The taskbar thumbnail overflow, with scaling mechanism, really turns into a list view completely. There is a small close button on the thumbnail previews, which inspires them to add a similar one when it's showing as a list. Compared with right-clicking, to run down the list with close button is really a fantastic thing. This toolbar has been well experienced on Windows XP and Vista. Sans thumbnails are viewed architecturally the same as the thumbnail view. No clicking needs to open in Beta, each close buttons and the menus are realized opening on hover in RC.

While the Control Panel Jump List improvement takes users' feedback into operation. We all hope there is something shown in the Jump list when pinned to the taskbar. Now, right-clicking on the control panel icon in Beta, the control panel jump list in RC supplies quick access to recent used items. Similarly, power shell jump and desktop jump lists made us smile and enjoying their alternation. Taskbar settings could be further customized. In Beta, the OS is not shutdown properly, settings do not persist. But in RC, these settings can be saved within 30seconds. Settings will presently be more reliable. Read the rest of this entry »

When we are now enjoying the happiness and convenience Windows 7 Beta brought, the engineering team of Windows 7 are busying on RC (Release Candidate). Since we got this news, most of us feel curious about the change. What will we get from RC since Beta? Yesterday, we finally got the changes from official engineering blog of Windows 7.

Totally, there must be some improvements, many under the hood but also many visible. For the visible changes, we discuss from three points of view: Core User Experience, Find & Organize and Devices & Media.

Core User Experience
1. Aero Peeks supports ALT+TAB
Customers have overwhelmingly given positive feedback about Aero Peek. Some users wondered the reason why Peek was never made in application for the ALT+TAB window. When we hold the mouse over the taskbar, the thumbnail shows the same way. Hence in RC, Windows took this request into it.

As a new piece of improvement in Windows 7, the selected windows show normally. With a partially transparent frame，some website windows are mostly transparent. This time in RC, customers can switch them with ALT+TAB. Aero Peek will appear when more window information is needed. There is also another application. Some users are dedicated to touch benefits. So, the Aero Peek let us drag our fingers in taskbar's thumbnails. the show desktop button is improving, we can conveniently see our desktop in a press-and-hold way. Read the rest of this entry »

The Windows 7 Beta which was distributed by Microsoft to selected testers only in the last days was leaked by one MSDN tester to various P2P networks. The beta 1 of Windows 7 with the build number 7000 is now a highly traded item on various platforms including the Bittorrent network. Various popular Bittorrent sites provide access to the torrent of the Windows 7 Beta release, the biggest with thousands of seeders and leechers.

The version that has been leaked is the official Windows 7 Beta that Microsoft intended to release to selected testers in December and to the general public in January 2009. The leak confirms that build 7000 of Windows 7 is indeed the beta 1 release.

The full build name is 7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD. The Windows 7 Beta 1 build that is circulating around is a 32-bit edition of Windows 7 Ultimate. The release has a size of 2.44 Gigabytes and is not supplied with a beta key as this would obviously blow the cover of the leaker of the build.

Users who have already downloaded and tested previous builds of Windows 7 will find that there are not many noticeable changes in the beta build in comparison to those builds that leaked at WinHec Beijing last month.

The good news for those users is that an upgrade from Windows 7 build 6956 to build 7000 should work flawlessly unlike previous updates who did not seem to work that well.

It has to be noted that the new build of Windows 7 is an evaluation copy just like the other builds were. This means that the version will expire on 2009/7/2 if a product key has been used to activate the version. Not supplying a product key will enable a test version that can be evaluated for 30 days before it will stop working.

The general manager of Microsoft Mike Nash posted that the next version of Windows operating system will retain the code-name Windows 7 when it is released officially on Windows Vista Team's blog. As we reported last time, this date currently pegged as late 2009 or early 2010.

It also means that the next generation of Windows client's product will be named Windows 7. And, as you probably know, since we began development of the next version of the Windows client operating system we have been referring to it by a codename, Windows 7. But now is a good time to announce that we've decided to officially call the next version of Windows, Windows 7. "Simply put, this is the seventh release of Windows, so therefore Windows 7 just makes sense." Nash said.

Microsoft said that the developers will get the pre-beta version of Windows 7 at Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles on October 28, 2008.

This Wednesday, Microsoft confirmed that the pre-beta version of Windows 7 will be released on Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles on October 28, 2008.

In PDC (Professional Developers Conference) website, Microsoft said that the developers who attend this conference will get the pre-beta version of Windows 7.

In the middle of this month, Microsoft just released the M3 version of Windows 7. According to what the tester said, the M3 version increased the stability and the function also has been enhanced. Prior to this news, there was another news about that the M4 version of Windows will never release, but directly to the preview version, then is the beta version with full function.

At the present, the insider generally agreed that Windows 7 will be released at the end of 2009 or early in 2010. However, some reports said that internal Microsoft Windows 7 date is June 3, 2009.

Microsoft also decided that the Windows Mail, Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Movie Maker will no longer be integrated with Windows 7 recently. And these will available as downloadable Windows Live applications.