Screenshots Of The Latest Microsoft OS Windows 7
Windows 7 is the name of the upcoming operating system developed by Microsoft. The name is just a codename and will be replaced with another one before the release date. A fewfriends have asked me why it is called Windows 7 and that’s actually something that can be answered easily.
Windows Vista, the current Microsoft operating system, is also internally known as Windows 6 and it’s only natural that the next operating system will be known as Windows 7.
It is possible to go further back to find out that XP was codenamed Windows 5 and Windows NT Windows 4. Microsoft broke with their naming habits with the release of Windows Vista. If you take a look at the previous operating systems, Windows NT, Windows 98 or Windows XP you notice that they did not contain a spectacular name but a name that IT users would be familiar with.
It is only fair to assume that Windows 7 will receive a similar name than Windows Vista did and will not be known as Windows XP2 or Windows 2k10.
Windows 7 Videos and Screenshots
The only screenshots that we have from Windows 7 are from the milestone 1 release. Microsoft did not make available any of those, the testers did. They created Windows 7 Videos and Windows 7 Screenshots of the new Windows 7 and released those on the Internet.
The screenshots and videos are not that spectacular yet and resemble in many aspects Windows Vista. A closer look reveals several aspects that have been changed but they can only be seen as marginal changes and nothing dramatic. There is definitely no killer change yet that would make the Internet crowd go crazy.
Windows 7 will be different. Different from previous Microsoft operating systems that all had to ensure that applications created for previous versions of Windows would also run perfectlyon the newest operating system. Backwards compatibility is a great feature and gives users one less reason to worry about when updating from an old version of Windows to a newer one.
Windows 7 will use virtualization to ensure backwards compatibility instead of the approach that Windows Vista is taking which is costing lots of performance and hard drive space.
Apart from those changes new UIs will debut in Windows 7. One of them is the graphical user interface widget Ribbon which users of Microsoft Office 2007 experienced first hand. Microsoft refers to the implementation as the Office Fluent Ribbon which basically describes the menu bar at the top.
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