Monday, November 2, 2009

Windows 7 (India) Web session

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We have covered the web session in India for the Windows 7 launch. This session covered most of the new features that the brand new version of Windows 7 includes. All the questions that were covered in this session are pasted below. (Answered by Abhishek Kant)

Question: what is security essential for Win 7?
Answer: FREE antivirus from MS..
Question: does IE8 come preinstalled with Win7?
Answer: yes
Question: When XP support will End meaning we should migrate to win 7?
Answer: please forward this q to




contest@merawindows.com




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Question: Is any external antivirus required for windows7
Answer: antivirus is recommended.
Question: Windows command prompt was not supporting Indic in XP and Vista. What abt Win7?
Answer: no
Question: is win 7 a good developer machine...becoz vista was nt as gud as xp for developers to work with...Will command promt run in full screen ...(For Turbo C++)?
Answer: powershell..
Question: there is no audio..is there a problem?
Answer: audio's fine
Question: What we need to get touch-sensititive screen on Windows 7?
Answer: hardware device..
Question: as windows XP have a good record in market for more than 9 years and still people prefer it becoz its best, success os and easy to use, so wht abt windows7 will it break record
Answer: we hope so..
Question: sir, i would like to know if the windows 7 students offer is available to students in india... www.win741.com
Answer: not yet.
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Question: what is security essential for Win 7?
Answer: FREE antivirus from MS..
Question: does IE8 come preinstalled with Win7?
Answer: yes
Question: When XP support will End meaning we should migrate to win 7?
Answer: please forward this q to
contest@merawindows.com


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Question: Is any external antivirus required for windows7
Answer: antivirus is recommended.
Question: Windows command prompt was not supporting Indic in XP and Vista. What abt Win7?
Answer: no
Question: is win 7 a good developer machine...becoz vista was nt as gud as xp for developers to work with...Will command promt run in full screen ...(For Turbo C++)?
Answer: powershell..
Question: there is no audio..is there a problem?
Answer: audio's fine
Question: What we need to get touch-sensititive screen on Windows 7?
Answer: hardware device..
Question: as windows XP have a good record in market for more than 9 years and still people prefer it becoz its best, success os and easy to use, so wht abt windows7 will it break record
Answer: we hope so..
Question: sir, i would like to know if the windows 7 students offer is available to students in india... www.win741.com
Answer: not yet.
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And as the name suggests, the latest feature "Play To" was demonstrated on the video. Play To basically enables users to stream media onto a connected/supported media device for playing it directly with a few clicks.
Again I am sharing some slides presented at the session. As noticed from the question answers session, Windows 7 provides a free Anti-virus from Microsoft, here are a few more security enhancements.
Windows 7 Theme pack includes special themes for India, with Hindi support.
New Features (Already covered in article 77 Windows 7 tips)
Microsoft Answers was launched yesterday to provide live support to Windows and Microsoft product users.
For Indian residents, Windows 7 launch party details in some cities.
The recorded websession will be published at http://www.microsoft.com/india/webcasts

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Now the Windows 7 is officially out, there is a good reason to discuss whats so special with new OS from Microsoft. We have already covered the 77 Windows 7 tips, but here a few more features that the Windows 7 website suggests, would make you want it more!

So here are the 10 good reasons why you should buy a copy of Windows 7:

  1. Get quicker access to all of your stuff—use Pin and Jump Lists to keep the programs and files you use the most right at your fingertips.

  2. Manage open windows easierresize and arrange windows simply by dragging their borders to the edge of your screen.

  3. Quickly find what you’re looking for—use Windows Search to find a specific file, program, or e-mail in a few seconds.

  4. Share files and printers among multiple PCs—from one Windows 7-based PC to another, you canshare files, music, photos, and even printers across your home network.

  5. Stay entertained effortlessly—with Windows Media Center you get one place to enjoy your photos and music, watch and record live TV, and watch free Internet TV.

  6. Easily create and share movies—create great looking movies and slideshows and share them on YouTube in minutes.

  7. Connect to networks easily—view and connect to any available wireless network in as few as three clicks.

  8. Do more and wait less—improvements that can accelerate sleep and resume and make your PC more responsive help you get more done.

  9. Touch and tap rather than point and click—Windows 7 makes PCs with touch screenseasier and more intuitive to use.

  10. Manage devices more easily—manage printers, cameras, music players, and other devices from a single, consistent, place.

There is one more feature not listed here that really interests me. I found this one on the Engineering Windows 7 Blog. Windows 7 bring additional 50 new fonts, with increased quality and range.

EW7 reports that Windows 7 will be the first Windows version to ship with more non-Latin fonts. The font packages contain major area of development for Indian languages. While Windows Vista consisted 9 Indian fonts, Windows 7 will ship with 40 more Indian fonts.

Another significant development in fonts is the Font control panel. The Font control panel shows thumbnails of fonts consisting the type of font style as shown in the screen-shot below. It even shows hidden-installed fonts.

Source: Windows 7 official homepage.

77 Windows 7 Tips from TechNet PDF Print E-mail
Written by Omkar Khair
Thursday, 15 October 2009 20:18

I frequently go through the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC), and found out that I missed to blog a great post! We all have been desperately waiting for Windows 7 in India. Here are 77 tips of using Windows 7 that will surely enhance your usage experience.

Windows 7

Here are some selected tips that I really liked.

1) Record Problems: The Problem Steps Recorder (PSR) is a great new feature that helps in troubleshooting a system. At times, Remote Assistance may not be possible. However, if a person types psr in their Instant Search, it will launch the recorder. Now they can perform the actions needed to recreate the problem and each click will record the screen and the step. They can even add comments. Once complete, the PSR compiles the whole thing into an MHTML file and zips it up so that it can be e-mailed for analysis to the network admin (or family problem solver, depending on how it's being used).

2) Use Windows XP Mode: Yes, it's only an embedded Virtual PC with a full copy of WinXP—but it's an embedded Virtual PC with a full copy of Windows XP! This is the first profoundly intelligent use of desktop virtualization we've seen—and a great way to move to Windows 7 without giving up full Windows XP compatibility.

3) Burn Discs with a Click: Or two; double-click an ISO file to burn it to your CD or DVD writer.

4) RoboCopyCopyCopy: The always-useful Robocopy.exe can now run multi-threaded; run Robocopy /? to review its new parameters (like /MT for multithreading) and make your copies go faster.

5) Multiple Monitors: Windows 7 makes working with multiple monitors intuitive and flexible. There are a variety of shortcuts and mouse motions that flick windows from monitor to monitor. To make the most of this, you need lots and lots of screen real estate. Try one of the new QWXGA monitors from Samsung (tinyurl.com/qwxgasamsung) or Dell (tinyurl.com/qwxgadell). These 23-inch monitors have a 2048x1152 resolution, making it possible to put two full-sized pages on the same monitor. Pair them together and you'll get enough space to have all your admin tools open along with Office, Visio, your intranet sites and a little note to your mom in Live Mail. Move your taskbar to the left or right side of the window instead of along the bottom to free up even more real estate.

6) Create Virtual Worlds: Virtualization capability has been added to the Disk Management tools. If you open Computer Management, go to the Disk Manager tool and then click the Action button at top, you will see the options Create VHD and/or Attach VHD. This allows you to create and mount a virtual hard drive directly from within the GUI. Note: With Windows 7 you even have the ability to boot a Windows 7 VHD

7) Try out Improved WordPad: You probably haven't given much thought to WordPad lately, but the version shipping with Windows 7 has undergone a major renovation. Think of it as a lite version of Microsoft Word. WordPad sports a spiffy ribbon interface, making it a snap to create well-formatted documents. Plus, you are no longer relegated to saving them as .RTF files. WordPad now supports the Office Open XML document (.DOCX) format. This makes it even easier to open .DOCX files created in Word in WordPad.

8) Improve Security: In Vista it was difficult to manage system protection via restore points. The System Protection tab in Windows 7 is a vast improvement. In one spot you can configure how much space to devote to restore points, delete and create restore points or even turn off system protection altogether. This is very useful on older systems where disk space may be at a premium.

Get the complete blog consisting of 77 Tips at : TechNet

Last Updated on Thursday, 15 Nov 2009 21:05