Reasons For A Windows 7 Upgrade
Microsoft’s newest operating system is known as Windows 7. Although it seems to be a re-worked version of Microsoft Vista, this is not the case.
Windows Vista employed a technology that was very new at the time, 2006, when Vista was launched. The whole kernel or heart of the computer operates in a different way with this new technology. A need for new service packs and updates developed with Windows XP because the computer ran off the kernel.
The system became vulnerable for hackers from all over the world that took advantage with labyrinth of Trojans, worms and even more.
Microsoft tried to address this issue in Windows Vista. They did, but it took up too much space for many users’ computers to operate well and required enough authorizations to complete common tasks that it would make a patient person go mad, never mention the rest of the world.
A FASTER OPERATING SYSTEM
Windows 7 offers customizable levels of user account control or UAC. Although it has all the same benefits of decentralized function, it does not use nearly as many resources.
And with all of the extras Windows 7 takes up about the same footprint as Windows XP. Just remember that Winows XP was created in 2001 when hard drives of 60GB was considered as super cool and 1GB of RAM was only a luxury.
Windows 7 taxes the computer’s resources no more than Windows XP did, meaning it runs twice as fast as Vista. This is seen as one of the main reasons why users are so keen to upgrade from Vista to Windows 7.
FEATURES OF WINDOWS 7
One of the worst side effects of decentralizing core operations from the kernel means that the user re-focus the operations. This means that users can have very separate libraries. In previous versions of Windows it caused a big inconvenience, but with Windows 7, Microsoft enabled a way to stream information, music and files between users.
Another huge benefit, The HomeGroup, was added when this feature was opened up. With The HomeGroup you can easily navigate firewalls and do file permissions because it only needs the setting up of a password for the home network.
The HomeGroup feature operates similarly to signing onto a router only the HomeGroup exists in a cloud that makes sharing easy, even sharing a printer. Media can be streamed to non-computer devices , such as televisions or stereos, by using the new “Play to” feature when connected to the HomeGroup, even when the user is not at home.
Windows 7 offers several other features and benefits to its users, making the decision to upgrade Vista to Windows 7 more than about the low price. One of these new features is the “Shake” that enables a user to minimize all windows but the active window by “shaking” it. Users can maximize performance based upon their computer’s strengths and weaknesses with the power efficiency reports.
They have even added improvements to favorite features like the addition of the Ribbon, as seen in Office 2007, to all Windows applications/applets and new ways to specify audio outputs. Windows 7 is also the first of Microsofts’ operating systems to fully support touch screens.
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