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4 major differences between windows vista and windows 7

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Differences between Windows 7 and Windows Vista

1. Peripherals are integrated in a smoother manner:

Now, every time you plug in a plug and play device, you will be having a different experience each time. Because this time, Windows 7 has turned its peripheral detection and support, more device central rather than shooting just an auto-run option as it used to do in Windows 7 and windows Vista. This will be more helpful, when you will be using different kind of peripheral devices. By far, almost all kinds of devices will be supported with the necessary drivers. And as if its not enough, Windows 7 will help you find the website of your peripheral device's manufacturer, and allow you do more than what you could have done with the auto-run interface only. Just for an example, say you plug in a camera, Windows 7 might take you to that manufacturer's website, where you might be having an option of uploading your photos to an online album. Best thing is, you won't be running out of drivers for your peripheral devices, as Windows 7 has been included an ocean of such drivers, and if by chance the driver is not existent there, Windows 7 will find it over the net for you.

2. Very much improved UAC:

The only problem, that was always discussed in most of the forums, and many questions which remained unanswered, and so many users who left the with an unsatisfied soul; will all be changed. Finally, we will be getting rid of annoying overprotective dialogue box that used to appear almost all the time, even when you changed the cursor speed or installed a software; as Windows 7 has shed overprotective dialogue boxes but still maintaining the quality protection against malicious attacks. Windows 7 will only display messages when major settings are changed.

3. Brand new taskbar:

What do you have at your bottom right corner of the screen? a set of icons which keeps popping up balloons one after another, giving an illusion of fancy lighting in a wedding? Well, don't worry anymore; as in Windows 7 Microsoft has made sure that you have the complete authority to change the settings required and allow or disallow only the required icons and also change the settings for notifications that might appear on screen and probably annoy you. Even the small little triangle that used to expand into the taskbar revealing all programs that are running; is gotten rid of. Now at the same place, if you move your cursor, you'll be getting a list of processes that are running.

4. Super fast performance:

Probably this is the major improvement upon Vista, which will heighten the sales of Windows 7. Microsoft had promised that it would deliver an Operating System that would be much faster than Vista. And yes it did, when the beta version of 7 was released and was tested. Windows 7 has very few startups process, and hence unspoken of, loads very fast. And in fact there are very few processes that run in the background and eat up memory cycles. But, anyways, performance of final release is yet to be tested. But till then, 7 have been rocking.

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MEMBER  says:
6 months ago

I THINK WE MUST USE WINDOWS 7 .... COS THEY HAVE FIXED THE ERRORS OF VISTA AND WINDOWS 7 IS THE IMPROVED VERSIONS FORM MIROSOFT ... MIROFSOFT RULES

El_Member  says:
5 months ago

Sounds good, windows Vista is very bad and now 7 is shaping up to be nice.

WestVes  says:
5 months ago

The article is very nice.

Big Ray  says:
5 months ago

Been running Windows 7 for 3 months now and loving it so far. Very fast startup and shutdown times, I have build 7100 and performance is rocking, visually stunning and very well thought out. But there is a little triangle on the taskbar but it open upwards and you have full control over your machine and programs.

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zcat8  says:
4 months ago

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Microsoft has put themselves in a bad situation with Vista and 7. If Windows 7 is a big improvement over Vista, people are going to feel ripped off. If Windows 7 offers little improvement, Microsoft damages their reputation; it is lose, lose situation for MS. Offering a service pack to fix Vista will save Microsoft's reputation, but then there would be no need for Windows 7.

Sam  says:
4 months ago

I agree with the idea of " Microsof should offer a service pack to fix Vista as they were doing with XP" . Therefore Windows 7 would not be necesary.

cozmic  says:
4 months ago

believe me i have the final versioni installed on to an ide hard drive an i was shit slow (as you do i blamed microsoft for poor design) but then i installed on a 3gb transfer sata hd an its absolutey rapid, they did as was promised this time

Keith / Great Documents  says:
6 weeks ago

Nice blog post. Windows 7 is beyond an upgrade from Windows Vista. I have updates all the time for Vista for my home laptop, however, there are many new and great attributes for Windows 7. Clearly, Microsoft is trying to tell us that Windows 7 will be a completely new & enhanced UI experience.

X man  says:
5 weeks ago

Are you sure Windows 7 would not be necessary. After all, if all of those changes are to be made, then it would take a lot more than a 500 MB download. It would need a whole DVD!

Dr Arif Nadeem  says:
3 weeks ago

Microsoft should offer a free upgrade from Vista to windows 7, because I feel cheated {since I have bought 1 Vista Home premium HP NoteBook in Jan 2008, and two pack of Vista Business Software for my office PCs in the month of March 2008}. Vista have a lot of Problems, it should be upgraded with time slot of purchase. Microsoft can do it! it is a reputed computer software company.

Alcino s Dias  says:
3 weeks ago

One cyber cafe guy has burned on a CD a window 7 ultimate for 100 rupese is this the same orginal windows 7.and what are the big diffrence between windows 7 and vista.

Jay B  says:
2 weeks ago

Guys, guys...

Lets just stick with Windows XP.

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