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| by Stan Beer | |
| Saturday, 28 February 2009 | |
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The areas covered include desktop experience, touch screen support, networking, control panel, Windows Media Player, device driver support, sound systems, Windows Explorer and performance. The desktop experience section improvements are mainly concerned improving the user interface, including such things as keyboard shortcuts to open applications on the task bar, the getting thumbnail views when flipping between open applications, making it easier to open files with different applications, more space on the task bar and more. The touch screen support promises to enable users to get a thumbnail peek at open applications by simply dragging your finger across applications, while on screen keyboards will have multi-touch capability to allow two keys to be pressed at the same time like mechanical keyboards. Improved support for devices and sound systems is also flagged, while Windows Media Player is singled out for special attention, with promises of more reliable Internet radio, better support for .MOV files captured by digital cameras and a cleaner now playing view. Not least, however, the blog did not fail to mention that it had tweaked the performance of Windows 7 since the beta release and proudly displayed some graphs to prove that the improved version in its development labs is running faster. CONTINUED Page 2 |
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