Microsoft Latest Version of Operating System - Windows 7

Windows 7 is the latest version for Operating System produced by Microsoft. It can be availed in Home Personal computers, Laptops, Tablet PCs and Media center PCs. It was released on 22^nd July 2009 for manufacturing but retail availability will be from 22^nd October 2009. In the series of windows products this made more expects on PC user to make use of it and feel the real experience of new Operating system. Some of the applications released with earlier Microsoft windows which including Windows Calendar, Mail, Movie Maker and Photo gallery will not be included in the Windows 7.

New Features:

It has new features such as advances in touch, support for virtual hard disk and handwriting recognition, Direct Access Kernel improvements, boot performance etc. New items have been added to the control panel like Clear Type Text Tuner, Display Color Calibration Wizard, Gadgets, Recovery, Troubleshooting, and Workspaces Center, Locations and other Sensors, Credential Manager, Biometric Devices, System Icons.

New Networking API with support of building SOAP- based Web Services in native code. It has a globalization support. Pinging has been implemented at the Taskbar, the windows search makes easier on file search.

Removed Features:

Many of the applications which were released with Windows Vista like Windows Calendar, Mail, Movie Maker and Photo gallery etc are removed in Windows 7. Also other unwanted components, Start Menu User Interface etc.

Hardware Requirements:

Processor Speed: 1 GHz Processor

RAM: 1 GB for 32-bit and 2 GB for 64-bit

Graphics card: DirectX9 graphics device with 128MB graphics memory

HDD: 16GB for 32-bit and 20GB for 64-bit

Optical drive: DVD drive