Presentazione Windows 7 At the Professional Developer's Conference (PDC) 2008, held in Los Angeles October 27 to 30 2008, Microsoft released a version of Windows 7 pre-beta and showed a lot of features and settings of the future operating system, said an executive at Microsoft, "it will be like Vista, only better."
translucent colors: even if users do not seem the same idea, Microsoft claims that the translucent colors have been a great success and are greatly appreciated by users, so the entire interface of Windows 7, icons, menus, windows and dialogues, the colors as if they were translucent glass
Topics: there is better management of issues, with the ability to customize every aspect of the interface depending on the size or use of a file.
Book: there is a more flexible foreign and library, designed as collections of files together for the same use. So there are libraries of images, videos and various types of documents, meeting in a single window or in sub-windows even if the files are scattered in different folders or in different drives on both PC and network.
Multitouch: you can use two or more fingers on the screen to activate specific features or even just to draw or select. You can play the piano on a virtual keyboard, or resize or distort an image using multiple fingers. It is to discover how much of this functionality will be fought by Apple, which was the first to introduce the iPod to the sound of cases for infringement of patent registration. Microsoft does not comment about it.
Transparency: having multiple windows open on your desktop, or windows and other objects, there is a transparency effect that allows viewing of windows or objects below. A function "Aero" in Vista that few had turned it weighed and slowed the display.
Gadgets: as there is no longer the sidebar, and now the gadget (or "widget") as a clock, news or weather can be kept on the desktop where it is most convenient. Jump
list: it comes to pop-up menu that appears when you click the right mouse button on one of the items that appear in Quick Launch. Instead of appearing generic functions of the bar, now also appear on the application-specific functions which you right-click.
Windows Media Player: addition to the redesign, there are two versions, one smaller and one larger, with the library of built-in video or audio file, and you can manage with the Jump list from the taskbar at the bottom.
Windows: if we have two windows open and are combined, they automatically line up side by side. If we have a window open and draw near to one edge or corner of the monitor, it automatically aligns the edge or corner, even if we take the window just outside the monitor will come back to this point exactly on the edge. If we bring the window near the top edge, the window will enlarge to full screen.
If you are using Windows 7 on a touch screen, that is, using your fingers instead of the mouse, and menu items chosen will be 25% larger than when we use the mouse for ease of use with your fingers.
Device Manager: devices now have a very detailed management panel, which includes both the characteristics and the synchronization with the PC. By registering as a smartphone device, the panel will manage data synchronization, shared folders, transfer or modification of images, audio files, ringtones ... but also changing the internal settings of the device (as long as the smartphone Windows Mobile has had), how many text messages are, how the battery and what the signal level. Also, and this is delegated to the manufacturers of devices that will integrate into the driver, a real image of the model of the device. Also in the lower panel of the device management is an area available for device manufacturers to software (residing on pc o sulla periferica) di utilità per l’uso della periferica (ad esempio il check di una stampante od i programmi per l’uso di uno scanner, o l’agenda contatti per uno smarthphone) eseguibili direttamente dal pc.
Gestioni connessioni: Microsoft ha messo grande enfasi nel nuovo pannello di gestione delle connessioni di rete, soprattutto wireless, che consente una velocità ed una funzionalità molto maggiore di Vista.
Applicazioni: molte delle novità di Windows 7 si trasmettono alle applicazioni, così c’è il nuovo Internet Explorer 8, con la ricerca attiva durante la digitazione e un nuovo sistema di finestre a schede, un nuovo Paint, un New MSN Messenger, and there will also be a new Office in line with the new interface.
Scalability: one of the major criticisms of Vista was that it was impossible to use the computer at the time of his release and that could only be used on PCs new and powerful. Vista was also incompatible with most existing software and hardware. Windows 7 promises to be scalable, even on older PCs and low-end to be very compatible with existing hardware.
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