MS WINDOWS 7 (OPERATING SYSTEM)

WEEK 05

MS WINDOWS 7 (OPERATING SYSTEM)

About Microsoft

Bill Gates

Founded in April 4, 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, today Microsoft is one of the largest and most successful companies in the world. Microsoft is the developer and distributor of such software as Windows 95, Microsoft Office, DirectX, and numerous other programs and games.

Paul Allen

Address:

Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052-6399
USA

Anatomy of Windows 7

• Aero
• Task-bar
• Search
• Libraries 
• Gadgets

Aero View 

The Aero desktop experience, available in the Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions of Windows 7, mixes cool graphics with useful new ways to manage your desktop.

Aero visual hallmarks include subtle animations and translucent glass windows, which you can personalize. Pick from the included color palette, or create your own custom tints with the color mixer.

There's more to Aero than style. Point to a task bar button, and you’ll see a thumbnail-sized preview—even for live video. Then point to the thumbnail, and it morphs into a full-screen preview. Shake and Peek cut through desktop clutter by quickly minimizing open windows or turning them invisible. 

• Aero Peek- It allows your to you peek at items in your task bar for a thumbnail preview.
• Aero Snap- this is a quick way to resize your windows to make them easier to read, organize and compare. Aero Flip- It allows you to preview all your

 Task-Bar

New Windows 7 task-bar is still the same familiar place for switching between windows. But now it's easier to see, more flexible, and more powerful.

• Jump Lists- you can get right to the documents, pictures, songs, and websites you use most often simply by right-clicking a program button on the task-bar.  
• Pinning- you can pin favorite programs anywhere on the task-bar for easy access also rearrange them any way you like by clicking and dragging. You can even pin individual documents and websites to Jump Lists on your task-bar. 
• Want more control over pop-up messages? Action Center lets you decide which Windows 7 alerts you see and which you don’t. 
  

Search 

Start typing in the Start menu search box, and you'll instantly see a list of relevant files on your PC. You can search by typing the name of the file, or based on its tags, file type, and even contents. To see even more matches, click a category in the results, like Documents or Pictures, or click See more results. Your search terms are highlighted to make it easier to scan the list.

Libraries

Windows 7 comes with libraries for documents, music, pictures, and videos. But you can personalize these, or create your own, with just a few clicks. There's more. You can also quickly sort and shuffle your libraries.

Gadgets

Gadgets put information and fun—like news, pictures, games, and the phases of the moon—right on your desktop. In Windows Vista, gadgets were corralled in the Sidebar.Windows 7 sets them free on the screen, where you can move and re-size them as you like.

 Windows 7 requirements

• 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
• 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
• DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
  • 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
  • 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
  • 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
  • Direct X 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver