Introduction to Windows 7

Windows 7, a product of Microsoft, was released on July 22, 2009, exactly 3 years of gap between Windows Vista,Windows 7 has better ways to find and manage files like Jump Lists and improved taskbar previews—to help you speed through everyday tasks. It's designed for faster and more reliable performance, so your PC just works the way what you want it to. With 64-bit support, you can take full advantage of the latest powerful PCs.

Here are some Advantages and Disadvantages of Window 7.

Advantages of Window 7

• Calculator has been enhanced with some new features like unit conversion, calculations like fuel economy and auto lease payment.
• Administrator account is disabled by default and high Security.
• Windows 7 is faster than its predecessors, both in terms of installation and boot up time.
• WordPad in Windows 7 has improved much better and look similar to the Microsoft Office Word. It can be used to open, edit file names with docx extension which was earlier introduced with MS-Office 2007. Word prediction is the new feature in Word Pad. Realistic brush has been added in Paint.
• It also supports advanced touch and handwriting recognition.
• Windows 7 supports Virtual Hard Disks with the support of enhanced performances of multi core processors.
• Windows Media Player 12 has got much enhanced features in the Windows 7 and drag and drop option has been added which were not there in the previous versions.
• Windows 7 allows the user to make the best use of graphic cards from the different vendors.
• Bit locker is a feature which provides encryption for the internal drives in vista, but it is extended to the external drives in windows 7. This makes backup and restore much easier.
• Default settings of User Account have been eliminated, to protect form the unauthorized software to be installed.
• Windows 7 has included a new concept, jumplists which organize the recently used files as well as web pages.
• Home networking has been made much easier than its previous operating systems and is probably safe from hackers.

Disadvantages of Window 7 

• Additional resources such as RAM, etc to make use of them for additional Features..
• It is expensive than the previous Microsoft operating systems.
• Some of the users have problems such as; their system hangs after installing Windows 7
• If the user has got an HP multifunction printer, and its driver being upgraded to the Windows 7, then the printer doesn’t response to the print commands.
• Some of the features like Start Menu user interface, Windows Ultimate Extras, InkBall, Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Movie Maker, Windows Calendar Windows Mail called Windows Live Essentials were included in Vista are removed in Windows 7.