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Windows 7The content may change as the software development progresses.Windows 7Part of the Microsoft Windows family110Windows 7 BetaDeveloper MicrosoftWebsite http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/Windows7/Home/ReleasesPreview version 6.1.7000 (2009-01-7; 67 days ago) (info)Source model Closed sourceLicense Microsoft EULAKernel type HybridUpdate method Windows UpdatePlatform support x86, x86-64Further reading* Development of Windows 7* Features new to Windows 7* Windows 7 editionsWindows 7 (formerly codenamed Blackcomb and Vienna) will be the next release of MicrosoftWindows, an operating system produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, includinghome and business desktops, laptops, Tablet PCs, netbooks[1] and media center PCs.[2]Microsoft stated in 2007 they were planning Windows 7 development for a three-year time framestarting after the release of its predecessor, Windows Vista. Microsoft has stated that the finalrelease date would be determined by product quality.[3]Unlike its predecessor, Windows 7 is intended to be an incremental upgrade from Vista, with thegoal of being fully compatible with device drivers, applications, and hardware with whichWindows Vista is already compatible.[4] Presentations given by the company in 2008 havefocused on multi-touch support, a redesigned Windows Shell with a new taskbar, a homenetworking system called HomeGroup,[5] and performance improvements. Some applicationsthat have been included with prior releases of Microsoft Windows, most notably WindowsMovie Maker, and Windows Photo Gallery, are no longer included with the operating system;they are instead offered separately (free of charge) as part of the Windows Live Essentialssuite.[6]Contents* 1 Development
 
* 2 Featureso 2.1 New and changed featureso 2.2 Removed features* 3 Antitrust regulatory attention* 4 Editions* 5 Hardware requirements* 6 See also* 7 References* 8 External linksDevelopmentMain article: Development of Windows 7Originally, a version of Windows codenamed Blackcomb was planned as the successor toWindows XP and Windows Server 2003. Major features were planned for Blackcomb, includingan emphasis on searching and querying data and an advanced storage system named WinFS toenable such scenarios. Later, Blackcomb was delayed and an interim, minor release, codenamed"Longhorn" was announced for 2003.[7] By the middle of 2003, however, Longhorn hadacquired some of the features originally intended for Blackcomb. After three major virusesexploited flaws in Windows operating systems within a short time period in 2003, Microsoftchanged its development priorities, putting some of Longhorn's major development work on holdin order to develop new service packs for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Developmentof Longhorn (Windows Vista) was also "reset" in September 2004.Blackcomb was renamed Vienna in early 2006,[8] and again to Windows 7 in 2007.[3] In 2008,it was announced that Windows 7 would also be the official name of the operating system.[9][10]The first external release to select Microsoft partners came in January 2008 with Milestone 1(build 6519).[11]Bill Gates, in an interview with Newsweek, suggested that the next version of Windows would"be more user-centric".[12] Gates later said that Windows 7 will also focus on performanceimprovements;[13] Steven Sinofsky later expanded on this point, explaining in the EngineeringWindows 7 blog that the company was using a variety of new tracing tools to measure the performance of many areas of the operating system on an ongoing basis, to help locate inefficientcode paths and to help prevent performance regressions.[14]Senior Vice President Bill Veghte stated that Windows 7 will not have the kind of compatibilityissues with Windows Vista that Vista has with previous versions.[15] Speaking about Windows 7on 16 October 2008, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed compatibility between Vista andWindows 7.[16] Ballmer also confirmed the relationship between Vista and Windows 7,indicating that Windows 7 will be an improved version of Vista.[16]On 27 December 2008 Windows 7 Beta was leaked onto the Internet.[17] According to a performance test by ZDNet,[18] Windows 7 Beta has beaten both Windows XP and Vista inseveral key areas, including boot and shut down time, working with files and loading documents;others, including PC Pro benchmarks for typical office activities and video-editing, remainidentical to Vista and slower than XP.[19] On 7 January 2009, the 64-bit version of the Windows7 Beta (build 7000) was leaked onto the web.[20]The official beta, announced at the CES 2009, was made available to MSDN and TechNetsubscribers on 7 January 2009[21] and was made briefly available for public download onMicrosoft TechNet on 9 January 2009 before being withdrawn and replaced with a coming soon
 
message. The servers were experiencing difficulty in dealing with the number of users whowished to download the beta. Microsoft added additional servers to cope with the large volumeof interest from the public.[22] Due to the unexpectedly high demand, Microsoft also decided toremove its initial 2.5 million download limit and make it available to the public until January 242009[23], and later until February 10, from where it was no longer available to the public,although paused or deferred downloads of the DVD image files still worked until February12.[24]Users can still download Windows 7 via the Microsoft Connect program. According to Neowin,the release candidate is scheduled to be released wordwide on 10 April 2009.[25]Features New and changed featuresMain article: Features new to Windows 7WordPad in Windows 7 with the ribbon interfaceThe new Windows Action Center which replaces Windows Security Center Windows 7 includes a number of new features, such as advances in touch, speech, andhandwriting recognition, support for virtual hard disks, improved performance on multi-core processors[26][27][28][29], improved boot performance, and kernel improvements.Windows 7 adds support for systems using multiple heterogeneous graphics cards from differentvendors, a new version of Windows Media Center,[30] a Gadget for Windows Media Center,improved media features, the XPS Essentials Pack and Windows PowerShell being included, anda redesigned Calculator with multiline capabilities including Programmer and Statistics modesalong with unit conversion.Many new items have been added to the Control Panel, including ClearType Text Tuner, DisplayColor Calibration Wizard, Gadgets, Recovery, Troubleshooting, Workspaces Center, Locationand Other Sensors, Credential Manager, Biometric Devices, System Icons, and Display.[31]Windows Security Center has been renamed to Windows Action Center (Windows Health Center and Windows Solution Center in earlier builds) which encompasses both security andmaintenance of the computer.The taskbar has seen the biggest visual changes, where the Quick Launch toolbar has beenreplaced with pinning applications to the taskbar. Buttons for pinned applications are integratedwith the task buttons. These buttons also enable the Jump Lists feature to allow easy access tocommon tasks.[32] The revamped taskbar also allows the reordering of taskbar buttons.Adjacent to the system clock is a small rectangle button for the new feature Peek. Hovering over this button makes all visible windows transparent for a quick look at the desktop.[33] Clickingthis button minimizes all windows.Unlike Windows Vista, window borders, and the taskbar do not turn opaque when a window ismaximized with Windows Aero applied. Instead they remain transparent.For developers, Windows 7 includes a new networking API with support for building SOAP based web services in native code (as opposed to .NET based WCF web services),[34] newfeatures to shorten application install times, reduced UAC prompts, simplified development of 
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