7. The Name The name is based on the NT version Not the first time to have the NT version name as the OS Name Windows NT 3.51 Windows NT 4.0 Why it reads NT 6.1 in the “winver” command?
8. Windows 7 Editions Mainly, only 3 are available for retail (X86 and X64) Windows 7 Home Premium Windows 7 Professional Windows 7 Ultimate Another 3 Windows 7 Starter and Home Basic for Developing Countries Windows 7 Enterprise not for OEM Special editions like “K” and “N”
9. Windows 7 Upgrade Paths Upgrade from an Equivalent Windows Vista Edition No In-Place upgrade from Windows XP Transitioning is available from XP through Windows Easy Transfer Alternately in-place to Vista then in-place to 7. Clean Installation is always recommended.
10. Windows 7 Hardware Requirements Windows 7 requires less resources than its predecessor CPU: 1 GHz Memory: 1 GB Ram Graphics: Support DirectX 9 device, 128 MB Hard Disk Space: 16 GB of Free Disk Space Windows 7 performs better on the same hardware than its predecessor.
15. Aero Interactions Aero Snap, Mouse and Keyboard Full Screen Vertical Maximize Left and Right Aero Shake! Aero Peak New Themes
16. Search Enhancements Faster search results Introducing windows libraries Integrated with Sharepoint Search the internet from within Windows Explorer
17. Windows Home Groups Easily share Pictures, Music, Videos, Documents, and Printers For printers, automatically download printer dirvers Safe, using a Home Group password Control which to share and which to prevent
23. Graphics GDI Concurrency Vista used to allow holding system-wide exclusive blocks Achieved through thorough analysis Claiming for system-wide exclusive block is fine-tuned for rendering Desktop Graphics Amount of data needed to run applications has been cut in half Accelerate common GDI operations
24. SuperFetching, Triggered Services Enhanced user tracking, reduced when the user is active Doesn’t run if the Windows Experience Index Disk higher than 6.5 Reduced prefetching for large seq. files, write-only files, low memory machines Services are off if not used Domain Join, IP Change, device arrival and removal
25. Overall Memory Savings Over 500 memory saving across kernel and runtime components: Device support Kernel File System Security Components Graphics Media Networking Shell
29. Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) Installation of Windows 7 and prior windows editions. Capture windows images using ImageX Create and manage WindowsPE images. Supports configurations using DISM
30. Deployment Image Servicing and Management DISM replaces the pkgMgr, PEImg, and intlConfg Offline and Online servicing. Supports WIM and VHD.
41. Powershell 2.0 and ISE Built-in for Windows 7 Over 100 new cmdlets Remote Management Integrated Scripting Environment Support for transactions Get-help online parameters Background Jobs http://microsoft.com/powershell
42. AppLocker Controls what applications are allowed to Run Improved version of Software Restriction Policy Works in collaboration with Server 2008 R2 Managed through Group Policy Highlights: Publisher Version Number User groups Import and Export
43. DirectAccess™ Solves VPN overhead problems Works in the background Managed through Windows Server 2008 R2 Only available with Windows 7
44. BranchCache™ Another improvement to Branch Office Scenarios Caches data coming from any other Branch connected via WAN Links Works in collaboration with Windows Server 2008 R2 User rights are checked against the Datacenter version
45. Boot from VHD and VHD mounts Supports booting Windows 7 from a VHD A VHD can be mounting as a if it’s a new hard disk VHDs can also be created using Computer Management
46. More Features! Restore Point Preview System Restore from Backup User Account Control Event Viewer – Trigger Actions
47. Resources Windows 7 Website http://www.microsoft.com/windows7 Microsoft Technet http://technet.microsoft.com
The Core Parking feature, which is configured by using Group Policy, allows Windows Server 2008 R2 to consolidate process onto the fewest number of possible processor cores and suspends inactive processor cores. If additional processing power is required, the Core Parking feature activates inactive processor cores to handle the increased processing requirements. Windows Server 2008 R2 has the ability to adjust processor performance (or, “P-state”) and subsequently adjust the server power consumption. Depending on the processor architecture, you can configure how P-states are adjusted by using Group Policy, giving you very fine control over processor power consumption.Windows Server 2008 R2 supports the ability to boot from Storage Area Network (SAN), which eliminates the need for local hard disks in the individual server computers. And the performance for accessing storage on SANs has been greatly improved.