Posts tagged Windows 7 Ultimate
Windows 7 Makes Vista Valuable
Nov 28th
Late last month, Microsoft unveiled a first peek at what was once called “Blackcomb,” later renamed “Vienna,” and finally dubbed “Windows 7.” (Or, as some wags have named it, the “Wait, come back, we were just kidding about Vista!” build.) Now, I must admit that I’ve been pretty skeptical about Windows 7 because, while on one hand Microsoft has been very closed-mouthed about the details of Windows 7, on the other hand the company has been pretty open about its existence and imminence. These two factors seemed to add up to a marketing shell game – it almost seemed like Redmond’s plan was to get us all excited about the idea of a newer, better Windows (which has the effect of partially drowning out the anti-Vista buzz), but then to avoid any specifics about that supposedly newer, better Windows. Now, however, we’ve got some of those specifics, and I’ve been pleasantly surprised to see a number of neat things slated for the mid-2010 version of Windows.
Wins for Windows 7 The first eyebrow raiser came in the form of a couple of interesting promises. First, all drivers that work on Windows Vista will work on Windows 7. Second, if your hardware runs Vista well, then it will run Windows 7 well. Why’s that interesting? Well, think of the way that many organizations buy new computer hardware. Many folks have a fixed-length buying cycle or “hardware refresh period” of three to five years, meaning that if you work for Bigfirm and Bigfirm has a hardware-refresh period of three years, then you get a new laptop every three years. Clearly the choice of period has a direct effect on the amount of money that Bigfirm spends in a year, and in times like these you’ve got to like anything that’ll stretch out that period.
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Battery life improvements in Windows 7
Nov 28th
Looks like Microsoft might be doing a fine job after all with their next operating system; Windows 7.
If a notebook runs Windows Vista, it will run Windows 7 and it will get better battery life, promises Gabriel Aul of the Windows Performance team. But PC manufacturers and device suppliers are also going to have to do their part to make a big difference to power consumption on new notebooks.
What Microsoft can do is make it easier for components in the system to go into low power mode when the system is idle. Some of that is ‘managing’ components: Windows 7 ‘parks’ CPU cores that aren’t needed, finally implements the ’slumber’ feature on SATA drives, powers down USB ports and controllers more aggressively and even puts your Wi-Fi card to sleep if it’s turned on but not connected to a network.
Windows 7 takes better advantage of hardware power saving options, particularly for playing a DVD video in Windows Media Player
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Windows 7 might get Country Specific Editions
Nov 25th
Winfuture.de, a German website has reported that Microsoft is considering country specific editions of Windows 7.
In my opinion, releasing so many editions of Windows Vista was a big mistake. There should have been two versions only, just like Windows XP. If Microsoft actually decides to launch different edition for each country then it will confuse the customers even more. I don’t understand what good is a country specific version going to be…
Here’s the Bablefish translation of the Winfuture’s German language article. I don’t feel like editing the translation. It’s easily understood anyway.
Microsoft offers Windows Vista in altogether six variants. With Windows it will give probably again a whole set of editions, whose name is to obviously at least partly change to Vista however to 7.
Only recently we could report that it will give possibly again a “Professional” version mentioned. Now a further detail is added. Obviously Microsoft Windows 7 wants to adapt the names of the editions not only optically to the respective region, but also.
The data our according to sources there is to be designations in different national languages apart from the English names for the different Windows editions also. Therefore Windows became 7 starters, Home basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise and Ultimate in Germany for example differently are called than in the USA and other English-language markets.
Still the considerations are to have been led not to end, were called it opposite us. At present different possibilities were discussed. There are not concrete examples to call for the time being thus. By an adjustment of the edition names to the respective national language the customers are to be able to recognize in the future probably better, which variant is suitable for them best.