Rich Seymore Account Technology Specialist Education Microsoft Corporation
Where to look! Windows 7 site Technet Windows 7 site us/windows/dd aspx Windows 7 News
New OS Features User Interface Libraries Windows Explorer Taskbar & Custom Switchers Jumplists Sticky Notes Calculator Troubleshooting Platform Problem Steps Recorder – PSR Federated Search Device Control Remote Access for all: DirectAccess Data Protection: BitLocker & BitLocker-To-Go
Rich pivots over files from multiple locations Libraries
Windows Explorer
Surface custom UI (e.g. TDI/MDI) Custom thumbnails for each window Appears in your program’s window list Taskbar Custom Switchers
Remote-control for a window Taskbar Thumbnail Toolbars
Taskbar Visual Feedback
Mini Start Menu for your program Surface key destinations and tasks Taskbar JumpLists
Sticky Notes
Calculator
Windows Scenic Ribbon In-box with Windows 7, redistribution available to Vista Win32 API, COM-based (Wordpad, Paint, etc..) Feature parity (or close) with Microsoft Office 2007 Ribbon Application Menu Quick Access Toolbar Tab Contextual Tab Set Contextual Tab Help Group (aka “Chunk”) Dialog Launcher
Device Control Local Printer default
Troubleshooting Platform Intuitive
Consistent experience across providers Federated Search
Make your own connector If the search provider supports OpenSearch standards then you can use the following code snippetcode snippet to built your search connector for that provider: Name of the Provider Description of the provider microsoftapplication You can also make your own search provider for any website even if it doesn’t support OpenSearch standards by using Live Search. Here is the piece of code which i used to make a Wikipedia search connector for Federated Search in Windows 7. Wikipedia OpenSearch for Wikipedia via Windows 7 Search Federation. Simply copy/paste the above code in a notepad file and replace the text in Bold(Red) and save it as.osdx file extension so that Windows 7 can recognize it as a valid Federated Search Connector file.notepad
DVD Maker
MovieMaker
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