How to Install Windows 7 Beta Software

Windows 7 is Microsoft's latest computer operating system effort. Windows 7 was created in response to computer and technology industry opinions of Windows Vista, the current Windows operating system. Windows 7 has various new software features that add software functionality similar to that found in Apple's Mac OS X operating system. An official, consumer version of the Windows 7 software is set to be released in mid-2009 (source).

In this computer and technology article, I'll guide computer owners through an introduction to the Windows 7 beta software as well as what they can expect when they install Windows 7 beta. Windows 7 offers definite user-end software upgrades. Computer technology experts say that Microsoft's "work on Windows 7 has focused much more on the user experience" (source).

An Introduction to Installing Windows 7 beta: What to Expect!

Microsoft has truly ruled the computer industry today with their many surprising inventions. Just recently, they revealed the next version of operating system to developers and the press called Windows 7 Pre-Beta. What? It is still so fresh from the public about their Vista launching and there's new OS coming? Definitely there will be much more faces awing in gratitude.

Analysts and Developers had finally taken their first hands-on look at this up coming OS. Though there are similarities with Vista, the new OS includes major new user interface updates, and much better hardware and software than Vista has. Wow! What more can the users expect from this Windows 7 Pre-Beta? Touch screen with state of the art software features? Let us not keep our minds guessing and explore the latest features this new OS has to offer.

Home Group - simplified home networking for sharing media files and printers;

Device Stage - a single page giving access to all the capabilities of a device such as a phone, MP3 player, printer, or camera;

Windows Touch - for mouse-free PC interaction on touch-sensitive screens;

More powerful taskbar - containing user interface updates.

Inside Windows 7 Pre-Beta

In Windows 7 Pre-Beta, Taskbar buttons are bigger and include devices like printers and scanners as well as many applications. By moving your mouse over the Taskbar button brings up horizontal preview in thumbnails of each document open in an application. By positioning over one of those brings up a full-screen preview of the document. You can drag Taskbar buttons along the bar, placing them where you like, instead of where the OS wants to put them. You can even pin an application's taskbar button, leaving it always accessible from the same place on the taskbar. That's clever for often-used applications.

Another specific taskbar button is that it can play songs from thumbnails, without requiring you to launch your media player software. That's not a major improvement, but it is pretty awesome. There is also what they called the "Jump Lists." These will pop out whenever you settle the mouse over an application button or in the taskbar, and display contextualized tasks-usually the most recently and frequently used documents and tasks for the application. You can also program items to appear in the list, for example, an imaging program might offer "Slideshow" as one of the Jump List choices.

In Windows 7 Pre-Beta it can recognize and connect with a Bluetooth in user's mobile phone using an easy three-step wizard. It can also sync your contacts and phone photos with its Media Sync, and there's also a ringtone editor.

Conclusion:

Indisputably this new OS will surely hit the town when launch late next year. Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President for Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group made point that all software and hardware that works with Windows Vista will also work with Windows 7 Pre-Beta, as driver support remains the same. So the Vista users out there need not worry because they will surely experience the benefits of this new OS.