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What's New in Windows 7? A Sneak Peek at the Pre-Beta Reveals Some Surprises

Posted 10/27/08 at 03:21:19 PM  by Mark Edward Soper

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Details of the Windows 7 pre-beta leak out before its official unveiling at PDC

Officially, Microsoft pulls the drapes off the Windows 7 pre-beta tomorrow (October 28) at the Professional Developer's Conference. So, what's new and different? ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley's received the inside scoop on what's coming tomorrow. Look for:

  • A new peripheral management interface called Device Stage (more info about this is coming in the Windows 7 Partner Showcase at November's WinHEC 2008 conference)
  • A new self-diagnosis feature called Action Center
  • A new A/V control method called StreamOn
  • A new animation framework
  • New task bar and shell integration features
  • Multi-touch and gesture recognition
  • Improved Bluetooth support
  • Ribbon UI akin to Office 2007 for Windows 7's applets

The version PDC attendees will be seeing appears to be build 6801 M3 (Milestone 3), which was finalized on October 20. You can find screen shots of an earlier version of this build at the WinFuture.de website (the site's in German, but the screen shots are in English).

Stay tuned to Maximum PC for more Windows 7 coverage.

Figure adapted from illustration courtesy ArsTechnica.

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TAGS: windows, microsoft, operating system, windows 7, pdc, pre-beta, WinHEC
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avatarSpeed fools, SPEED!

Submitted by ex-mac-guy on Fri, 10/31/2008 - 9:30am

I'm with atomaweapon, stop with the "new" features already and clean up the code. Make the operating WORK BETTER AND FASTER. Stop with the BLOATware already.

Improved Bluetooth support? Why? New Taskbar? Why?

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avatarSome of it sounds good but...

Submitted by Shalbatana on Tue, 10/28/2008 - 7:20am

1) stop f-ing with the task bar! It's not broken and I don't need it to do anything else. 

 

2) bluetooth was a bad idea 6 months after it's release, I don't need improved suppport for it, I need a new method. The only thing that makes it's implementation more appealing is the concept that some lame brain decided that the bright blue flashing light in everyone's bluetooth earpiece should be turned "on" by default!

 

P.S. if the action center is as useful as the other diagnosis system talked about on this site a few days back...I'll install with it disabled, thank you.

Wouldn't we all just love to hear microsoft say "we finally put the settings you change most often in convienant and logical places, not buried 7 layers deep under an un-related process, filed under an obscure name? We've only been complaining about this for the past 6 operating systems guys!

 

(on a different note, how come posts omit hard returns now?)

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avatarI don't really care about

Submitted by atomaweapon on Tue, 10/28/2008 - 6:39am

I don't really care about any of those features except pure speed. If vista was "faster" than xp I'd be usingit right now.

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