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Microsoft Windows 7 Operating System Software - DVD
With Microsoft Windows 7 Operating System Software
Professional, you'll be able to run many Windows XP productivity
programs in Windows XP mode* and recover your data easily with automatic
back-ups to your home or business network. You'll be able to connect to
company networks easily and more securely with Domain Join. And with
entertainment features like Windows Media Center, it's great for home as
well as for business.
Easy To Use
- Getting things done is easier. With the new Taskbar and
navigation features like Snap, it's easier to compare to windows side by
side, and JumpLists put files you use often just two clicks aware.
- Home Group makes it easy to create a home network and connect your PCs running Windows 7 to a printer.
Faster To Use
- Find virtually anything on your PC - from documents to songs to email - just by typing a word or two with Windows Search
* Requires download of Windows XP Mode (which runs on
Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate), and virtualization technology such
as Windows Virtual PC. Windows 7 customers can download Windows XP Mode
and Windows Virtual PC free-of-charge when available.
Windows 7 System Requirements
- 1GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor.
- 1GB RAM (32-bit) or 2GB RAM (64-bit)
- DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver.
Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor can help you determine which features and editions of Windows 7 will run on your computer. Visit http://windows.microsoft.com/upgradeadvisor when available.
Detailed Features
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional - English US, DVD
New Microsoft Windows 7 Professional is your PC, simplified.
You told Microsoft what you want in a PC. They listened. And made
hundreds of little improvements and a few big ones that add up to a
whole lot less. Less waiting, fewer clicks, and less complexity. With
less of what you don’t need, Windows 7 helps you do more. More work,
more play, and more of everything in between. Making every task simpler
and every day easier.
What's new in Windows 7
Windows 7 was built around your feedback, so you'll see a
lot of things you've asked for. You asked us to make everyday tasks
faster and easier, to make your PC work the way you want it to, and to
make it possible to do new things. And that's exactly what we're doing.
See how it's coming to life.
Improved taskbar and full-screen previews
The taskbar at the bottom of your screen is what you use to
launch programs and switch between them when they're open. In Windows 7
you can pin any program to the taskbar so it’s always just a click away,
and you can rearrange the icons on the taskbar just by clicking and
dragging. We’ve made the icons considerably bigger, too, so they’re
easier to use. Hover over the icons and you’ll see thumbnails of every
file or window that open in that program, and if you hover over the
thumbnail, you’ll see a full-screen preview of that window. Move the
cursor off the thumbnail and the full-screen preview disappears.
Jump Lists
With Windows 7, we focused on keeping the things you use
most right in front of you. One example: The new Jump List feature. It's
a handy way to quickly reach the files you've been working with. To see
the files you've used recently, just right click on the icon on your
taskbar. So right-clicking on the Word icon will show your most recent
Word documents. Plus, if there are other files you want to keep handy,
you can just pin them to the Jump List so they’ll always appear. That
way, the documents you’re likely to want are just a couple clicks away.
Some programs, such as Windows Media Player, can
pre-populate their Jump Lists with common tasks. For example, on the
Jump List for Windows Media Player, you’ll see options to Play All Music
or resume your last playlist. On the Jump List for Internet Explorer,
you’ll see frequently and recently viewed websites. With some programs,
you’ll even have quick access to tasks that, in the past, were only
available from within the program, such as composing a new e-mail
message.
Desktop enhancements
Windows 7 simplifies how you work with the windows on your
desktop. You'll have more intuitive ways to open, close, resize, and
arrange them.
With Windows 7, it’s easier to do things you do all of
the time. For example, before, when you wanted to compare two open
windows, you had to manually resize your open windows to show them side
by side. With Snaps, you can simply grab a window and pull it to either
side edge of the screen to fill half the screen. Snap windows to both
sides, and it’s easier than ever to compare those windows.
Another thing you may want to do is quickly see your
gadgets or grab a file from your desktop. To see your desktop just move
your mouse to the lower right corner of your desktop. That'll make all
the open Windows transparent—so your desktop is immediately visible.
Want to get all but one window out of your way? Grab the top of that
window, shake it and all the other open windows will minimize to the
taskbar. Shake the window again, and they’ll all come back.
Now You See Them...
Now you don't: See through to the desktop with invisible windows
Windows Search
Looking for something on your PC? What’s your first
instinct? If you use the web a lot, you probably start by looking around
for a search box. Now, you can find things on your computer the same
way. Introduced with Windows Vista, Windows Search helps you find
virtually anything on your PC quickly and easily. Windows 7 also makes
search results more relevant and easier to understand. Looking for a
file, e-mail, or application? While you can easily look through folders
and menus, there’s an even faster way. Just click on the Start button
and you’ll see a search box at the bottom of the Start menu. Just enter a
word or few letters in the name or file you want, and you’ll get an
organized list of results.
Windows 7 uses libraries to show all content of a
particular type in one spot. Say you’ve got photos in several locations
on your PC. A lot will be in your Photos folder. But you might have some
in documents folders too. Your photos library makes it easy for you to
browse and use all your photos, no matter where they are on your PC.
By collecting things into a single view, libraries make
it simpler to find what you’re looking for. They’re even more powerful
with Windows Search. You can search your Libraries using filters to
customize your search. For example, when you’re looking for music you
can search by album. Or search for photos by the date they were taken.
You can go to your Documents Library, click on authors, and see all the
documents on your computer sorted by author name.
Internet Explorer 8
Available now, Internet Explorer 8 helps you do what you
want online, faster. With innovations to the address bar, search, tabs,
and the Favorites bar, Internet Explorer 8 brings you more information,
with less effort.
Instant Search
To start, as you type a search request you'll
immediately start seeing relevant suggestions from your chosen search
provider, complete with images when available. The twist: search will
also use your browsing history to narrow the suggestions. If you see
what you're looking for, you can go right to the list without finishing
the request.
Accelerators
There are online services you use all the time. Like
mapping a location. With Accelerators, you can highlight a bit of
information on any page, click on the blue Accelerators icon, and choose
from a variety of relevant services. So if you highlight a street
address and right click, the Live Maps Accelerator will show a map
preview right there on the page. In addition to mapping, you’ll find
Accelerators for e-mailing, blogging, searching, translating, and
sharing information. Popular services including eBay and Facebook offer
special Accelerators you can use with their sites.
Web Slices
A Web Slice is something you use when you need to track
information on a website, but you don’t want to keep going to the site.
Use a web slice for things like auction items, sports scores,
entertainment columns, and weather reports. When the content you're
watching changes, you’ll see it right away in the Web Slice in your
Favorites Bar.
All together now: See all your devices in one spot
Better device management
One of the great things about PCs is how they let us use
such a wide array of devices. In the past, you had to use several
different screens to manage different types of devices. But With Windows
7, you'll use a single Devices and Printers screen to connect, manage,
and use whatever printers, phones, and other devices you have on-hand.
A new technology in Windows 7 called Device Stage
takes device management a step further. Device Stage helps you interact
with any compatible device connected to your computer. From Device Stage
you can see device status and run common tasks from a single window.
There are even pictures of the devices which makes it really easy to see
what's there. Device manufacturers can customize Device Stage. For
example, if your camera manufacturer offers a custom version of Device
Stage, then when you plug your camera into your PC, you could see things
like the number of photos on your camera and links to helpful
information.
HomeGroup
Today, you may have a network in your home that you use
to share an internet connection. But it can be hard to share other
things, like files and printers. Do you have one or more computers in
your home but only one printer? If you’re like most people, when you
need to print a file that’s on your laptop in your bedroom on the
printer in your den, you probably e-mail the file from one PC to another
or transfer it on a USB drive. And if you need to find a file but don’t
know which computer it’s stored on, chances are you’re in for a long
night as you traipse from PC to PC and search each one.
HomeGroup, a new feature in Windows 7, makes
connecting the computers in your home a painless process. HomeGroup is
set up automatically when you add the first PC running Windows 7 to your
home network. Adding more PCs running Windows 7 to the HomeGroup is an
easy process. You can specify exactly what you want to share from each
PC with all the PCs in the HomeGroup. Then, sharing files across the
various PCs in your home—and many other devices—is as easy as if all
your data were on a single hard drive. So you can store digital photos
on a computer in your den and easily access them from a laptop anywhere
in your home. Similarly, once in a HomeGroup, the printer in your den is
shared automatically with all of the PCs in your home.
Decide whether to join an existing network
Easily explore content on other devices on the network
View Available Network (VAN)
Windows 7 makes viewing and connecting to all of your
networks simple and consistent. You'll always have one-click access to
available networks, regardless of whether those networks are based on
Wi-Fi, mobile broadband, dial-up, or your corporate VPN.
View Available Network (VAN)
Windows 7 Works your way!
Faster, more responsive performance
Nobody likes to wait, so we all want our PCs to
perform well. We looked at a number of ways to improve performance on
PCs running Windows 7. We designed the operating system to be more
responsive and simpler to use.
To improve performance, Windows 7 is designed to
make PCs start up, shut down, resume from standby, and respond faster.
To help you zip through your day, we’ve added new features to simplify
the number of steps required to do common things. Some of the features
that’ll help you save time include:
- Windows Taskbar simplifies working with your applications and files
- Jump Lists put the documents you want handy and the ones you’ve used recently a couple clicks away
We’ve also focused on making it more convenient
to work with the operating system. For example, the Action Center gives
you more control over how the operating system notifies you about system
changes. You can recover more quickly from problems when they do occur
because when you’re ready to address issues, Windows 7 will help you fix
them.
Power management improvements
We designed Windows 7 to improve battery life by
adding power-saving enhancements,such as adaptive display brightness,
which dims the display if you haven't used your PC for a while. Other
improvements include using less power to play DVDs (handy on a trip) and
using processing power more efficiently.
Bright idea: With a display that dims automatically, you get longer battery life
Compatibility
We know how important it is for the hardware and
software you use today to work with Windows 7. So we’re doing several
things to help.
- We’re working with our partners to help
ensure their products will work with Windows 7. You can expect that most
of the products that work with Windows Vista to work
- If you’re buying a new device or
application, look for the "Compatible with Windows 7" logo. These
products have passed tests that Microsoft designed to install readily
and run reliably with Windows 7.
- With Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate,
you’ll be able to run many productivity and business programs designed
for Windows XP. Some additional software will be necessary and it will
be available free-of-charge as a download from Microsoft.
Reduce interruptions
In previous versions, Windows was often able to tell
you when something on your computer needed attention. Unfortunately, it
often did so by interrupting you with pop-ups or other messages. These
were helpful if the problem required immediate attention. However, they
were less helpful if the problem was not urgent and you didn’t want to
take care of it at the time. Rather than popping up with a message in
the lower right of your screen, if Windows 7 needs your attention,
you'll see an Action Center icon and can find out more by clicking it.
If you don't have time to look at the alert immediately, Action Center
will keep the information waiting for you to address later.
Action Center will keep the information waiting for you to address later
Windows 7 helps you solve more problems, and it
helps you solve them on your own schedule. The Action Center is a new,
integrated Control Panel experience that gives you a central place to go
for tasks and notifications associated with keeping your computer
running smoothly. It makes it easier for you to fix problems yourself by
providing a new streamlined experience for addressing notifications and
managing computer issues.
Simplifying maintenance, quieting the system: Action Center consolidates notifications
New Possibilities with Windows 7
Easier TV, movies, and video
With a streamlined user interface and support
for new content types and digital TV, Windows Media Center in certain
editions of Windows 7 makes watching TV, movies, and other video content
on your PC easier than ever. With a simple USB TV Tuner you can record
and watch shows on your schedule. Windows Media Center has been updated
to manage a single TV guide containing both standard and digital high
definition TV shows.
Quickly browse recorded TV shows
You'll be able to find your favorite shows
super-fast with new features such as turbo scroll. Just hold down the
right-arrow key and you'll zip through content listings.
TV, music, pictures, and video
Streaming media in your home - One of the great
things about PCs is how they help you put your pictures, videos,
recorded TV, and music in one place. Once everything is in that spot,
it's natural to want to enjoy it on other PCs and devices in your home.
Windows 7 helps you do it. It'd be great to just “send” music from your
PC to the place where you want to see or hear it. And you can. It's
called streaming, and Windows 7 makes it easy to use your PC to stream
music, videos, or photos to your home audio-video system and other
networked media devices. New media streaming features make your PC a
great hub for audio, video, recorded TV, and photos throughout your
home. So, when you set up a home group or media streaming from Windows
Media Player, you can enjoy your music, pictures, and videos easily on
other computers running Windows 7 and other devices in your home.
Share your media without losing control
Play to
Here's another way to enjoy the music on your
PC—send it to another device. Let's say you're sitting on your couch,
using your laptop to read e-mail or surf the web. You'd like to listen
to some music, but you don't want to hear it coming out of your laptop's
speakers—and you don't want to get up and go find your portable media
device. With Windows 7, you don't have to. Just open Windows Media
Player, right-click on what you'd like to hear, select Play To, and
you'll see a list of devices and PCs on which you can play your music,
like your network-connected stereo or Xbox 360. In most cases, if your
media receiver doesn't support the file format for your media, Windows 7
automatically converts that content into a format that your media
receiver can play. Windows Media Player even offers controls to manage
that device, such as play, stop, and skip tracks so your PC becomes your
remote control.
Play media on your home audio system
Remote Media Streaming
Once you've got your pictures, music, videos,
and recorded TV content on your home PC, it'd be nice to take it with
you, say on a family vacation. But you may not have time to download
what you want onto your laptop or other media player. But, if your home
PC and your laptop use Windows 7, then you can use the entertainment on
your home PC from pretty much wherever you can connect to the Internet.
You can use Windows Media Player on your laptop to listen to music, and
view pictures, videos, or recorded TV, in the media libraries on your
home PC. No need to take all your photos with you: so when you're at the
family reunion, you can tap into your home PC and share photos with the
whole gang.
Keep your life in-sync with Windows Live
If you are using Windows 7, you'll want to get
Windows Live Essentials. It's free! Windows Live Essentials provides
some features that were previously included in Windows Vista and other
Windows operating systems, like programs to:
- Manage your multiple e-mail accounts in one place
- Make the most of your digital photos
- Chat instantly with IM
- Keep your family safer online
And Windows Live Essentials seamlessly
connects what you do on your PC with the online services you use every
day, like Windows Live Hotmail, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, and others.
One easy download gives you Windows Live Photo Gallery, Mail, Messenger,
Movie Maker, and more. With these great applications you can get even
more out of Windows 7.
Windows Live Photo Gallery
Windows Touch
While great for a lot of tasks, using a keyboard
and mouse is not always the easiest way to do things. With Windows 7,
if you've got a touch-screen monitor, you can just touch your computer
screen for a more direct and natural way to work. Use your fingers to
scroll, resize windows, play media, and pan and zoom.
The Start menu, Windows Taskbar, and Windows
Explorer are touch-friendly, with larger icons that are easier to select
with your finger. Browsing the web with Internet Explorer 8 is easier
too—just use your finger to scroll down a Web page or browse your
favorite links. You can even use your finger to arrange the pictures in a
photo album.
Windows 7 also introduces support for new
multi-touch technology, so you can control what happens on the screen
with more than one finger. For example, you can zoom in on an image by
moving two fingers closer together, like you're pinching something, or
zoom out by moving two fingers apart. You can rotate an image on the
screen by rotating one finger around another, and can right-click by
holding one finger on your target and tapping the screen with a second
finger.
Resize a window by touching its corners
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