Thursday, October 30, 2008

Windows 7 Alpha?

Someone posted some screenshots of Windows 7 Aplha testing version on the internet. I would like to share it with everyone.

From the screenshots, we notice Microsoft has make some changes that improving to the current Windows operating system, Vista.


Microsoft has killed the Sidebar in Windows 7, but the Gadgets it contained live on. They simply sit wherever you choose to place them on your desktop.


Both the Taskbar and the Start Menu now include Jump Lists -- context-sensitive selections of actions relating to a particular application, such as files you've used recently or access frequently.


Device Stage is a new feature that gathers all of the information (everything from drivers and applications to manuals) relating to a particular phone, printer or other piece of hardware, and it lets you access it from a single window. But it will show up only if device vendors create an XML document based on a Microsoft template, a document that also must be approved by Microsoft. The good news is that such documents are a lot easier to create than new device drivers, and vendors can stick with the drivers created for Vista.