Category — Operating Systems

Windows has now come out with its new versuion of operating system, before launching the original version it has introduced it’s beta version. This beta version is similar to the original version, the main reason for introducing this is to gain feed back and comments from it’s users so as to get a idea to finish it’s built. Installing Windows 7 beta 1 is much faster and simpler than installing Windows Vista or Windows XP on a system.There are fewer steps to work through, the installation is overall much faster than for earlier Microsoft operating systems and there are fewer obstacles between the user and the OS once it’s installed.

New taskbar

The new taskbar is visually looking good and interesting and it is much easier to use at higher screen resolutions that the Vista or XP taskbar. Since,the apps that are running and shortcuts that have been pinned together in the taskbar it has become hard to recognize the difference between them. The new Jump Lists feature acts as a context sensitive menu for applications.

Aero Snap

The simple little feature,which is used by everyone all the time is the Aero Snap. The method used here for organizing Windows is the gestures driven of method. The window is dragged to the top of the screen and maximize the apps. Drag it to the side and you get it to tile to one half of the screen. Drag the app away from the top of the screen to restore it. This feature is really a handy feature for people who work with multiple applications.

Aero Peek

Aero Peek is the feature, by which the desktop can be seen without minimizing all the running applications. Mouse over the small area on the right-hand side of the taskbar, gives you a glimpse of what is present on your desktop, which allows you to see the shortcuts and gadgets. The use of Aero Peek is limited, as you can’t interact with anything on the desktop because as soon as you move the mouse off the Peek spot the applications all return.

Personalizations

Windows can be customized based on the your taste and style. Windows 7 comes with several ready made themes that includes specific background images, colors, sounds and screensavers, there are also themes that make use of a desktop slide show to continually change the desktop image.

Microsoft is about to launch a new operating system called as Windows 7 propably in the middle of year 2010. Before the launch of full version of Windows 7, Microsoft has provided a testing or Beta software called Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) for testing purpose. You can install Windows 7 RC and enjoy the new features. The RC was available atleast through July 2009 and will expire on 1st June 2010. Starting on 1st March 2010, your system(pc) will begin shutting down every 2 hours. Windows will notify your 2 weeks before the bi-hourly shutdowns start. To avoid interruption, you’ll need to install a non-expired version of Windows before 1st March 2010.The system requirements and the special features of Windows 7 are mentioned below and this information about Windows 7 is just a preliminary and it is subject to change.

System Requirements:
1. 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
2. 1 GB RAM (32-bit) / 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
3. 16 GB available disk space (32-bit) / 20 GB (64-bit)
4. DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver.

The New feature’s of Windows 7:
1. Improved taskbar and full-screen previews
2. Jump Lists
3. Desktop enhancements
4. Windows Search
5. Internet Explorer 8
6. Better device management
7. Home Group, makes connecting the computers in your home a
painless process.
8. View Available Network (VAN), makes viewing and connecting to all of your networks simple and consistent.
9. Ability to watch and record live TV
10. Navigation through the use of “Touch”.

HTC has launched a new Windows Mobile device which is powered with 6.5 Professional Operating System(OS)of Windows. There are also some reports coming that, many people call it as HTC Leo 3, this HTC Leo is a large device, having a smooth touch screen with some shortcut buttons for functioning the OS and HTC’s Touch FLO 3D User Interface. The handset also comes equipped with a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, which gives us a great speed and smooth functionality.The other feature included in the design of HTC Leo are:
1. Wifi with router capabilities
2. 3G with HSDPA and EDGE/GPRS
3. Bluetooth Capability
4. Global Positioning System(GPS) with A-GPS
5. A Bluetooth
6. MicroSD card support
7. 3.5mm earphone socket.
The price of the handset has not yet been announced officially, it may be announced during the release of the handset.The handset is expected to be released forand to the rest of the world in the later months.

This is really a great news for the people who used Firefox and switched for Chrome recently,but these people were using Chrome all the day without any extensions in Chrome. Last week, Google has announced that extension support was turned from now in all the developer versions of Chrome  of  Windows by default from now onwards. Before,extension support in Chrome was hidden largely and only few extension can be used with Chrome now and others are yet to be added.Few examples has been compiled by Google in a list,these examples includes simple things in Google Reader button such as auto-subscribe for URL’s and Gmail inbox checker. This is the first step by Google in its “launch process” for the Chrome features. I think that this feature is worth nothing,  as Chrome’s regular users are still using only version 2x,whereas the developed releases coming now are in 4x versions.So,it is not clear that Google will turn on extensions atleat in 3.0 version of Chrome (Chrome3.0) and whether it becomes official,right now beta version of it is available .Google has enlisted some help features to speed up the extension of Chrome builds on Linux and Mac. Extensions in latest build of Chromium has not been highlighted on Mac, but by putting “chrome://extensions/” on the URL you get the extensions.

Few weeks ago,users of Mac have heared a news that there are a few bugs in some pieces of software in the latest version of OS X,Snow Leopard,which was released a few days ago.The applications having such issues includes the developer version of Chrome and Chromium for OS X.We know that these versions are still under development and they are not complete yet, but inspite of knowing that, many people use them, which increases the stability of those developer version and they become usable for OS X Leopard.Google has fixed the bugs in it and has kept it smooth running along in Snow Leopard as well.I like to play with Chromium every day and have yet to notice a crash.Flash is working fine on it,but the book mark manager including the bookmark importer was available in builds last month but now it has been disabled temporarily.The latest builds of Chromium is available in the Google Chrome’s website, even the developer version of Chrome is available on it.The auto-updater of Chromium can also been found on the same.The testing of Snow Leopard seems to started as soon as possible by Google and the update will be available after the testing has been over.Another important thing is that, a new “about” screen is added to the Chromium recently.This can be found below the window.