Pre-beta Microsoft Windows 7 Unveiled!

Wednesday 29 October 2008 @ 10:09 am

Microsoft demonstrated the next version of Windows OS, Windows 7, for the first time at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this morning. Many screen shots and new features were revealed!

Windows 7 Desktop

Show Desktop button at bottom right

Windows 7 comes with a lot of improvements and enhanced features, including :-

More descriptive and less intrusive User Account Control (UAC) – Picture 1
Simpler WiFi – Picture 2
Internet Explorer 8
Enhanced search tools, using filters, libraries, indexes, etc. – Picture 3
Better encryption – Picture 4
Better compatibility to old applications – Picture 5
WordPad & Paint with enhanced features – Picture 6
More energy efficient

Windows 7 User Account Control

Windows 7 WiFi

Windows 7 Search
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Windows 7 BitLocker Encryption

Windows 7 Old Program Compatibility

Windows 7 WordPad

Windows 7 Windows Media Player Compact View

For detailed review on Windows 7, check out the special report from ZDNet. They also have a very well written on-hand testing review by Ed Bott.

For more screen shots of the OS, visit their Image Gallery.

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6 Responses to 'Pre-beta Microsoft Windows 7 Unveiled!'

CLF - October 29th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
More or less looks the same as Vista except a few tweaks here and there.
Still got a long time to wait for the final version of it.
Of course, like any Microsoft products, initial batch must have some problems before it’s finally stabilised.
SapiensBryan - October 29th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
The sneak peak always looks as impressive as ever, I think the system will speak for itself honestly when we are using it. Hope it doesn’t disappoint us again. :)
Mike Rodgers - November 1st, 2008 at 12:01 am
I just hope I can actually use my software, I bought vista already and just had to roll back to XP. Oh well atleast this made me laugh :)
Paul Tan - November 9th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Not appealing. I get this “same old same old” feeling. I’ll stick to my Mac.
davidlian - November 12th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
What do you mean? It’s awesome from what I hear. Copies Mac, then makes it better. I think Microsoft has this small window of opportunity left before Mac pulls ahead to fast.

I’m gonna download the beta and run it. We’ll see how it goes.
CISSP - November 26th, 2008 at 2:36 am
My only issues with Vista (now that I splurged and upgraded the PCs I own to their max CPU, video, and memory) stem from better memory usage, better compatibility with older programs, and more compatibility with existing hardware (2006 parts and on, that is). There are hardware components sold today that still have compatibility issues with Vista (even with SP1) and one literally has to rig it up (by using code shared by tech forums) manually in order for them to work properly. For the average Vista user, this is a serious issue. If 7 promises to address these specific issues (and looks like so far it is based on the screen shots provided here), then there might be a future without XP…who knows?