Microsoft updated the Windows 7 Pre-release (M3) Privacy Supplement today and it revealed several new features of Windows 7 that have been covered over at the Windows 7 blog. Here is a short summary of what new features have been mentioned in the privacy supplement.
Driver Protection checks a database that is maintained locally for drivers that are known to be problematic. It can be updated via Windows Update and a new feature called Dynamic Update which essentially updates Windows 7 during installation if an Internet connection is available. Windows 7 might prevent those drivers from being loaded which is a somewhat scary sentence if there is no way to overrule the decision.
Internet Printing and the Online Print Ordering Wizard are two new print services. The first makes it possible to send print jobs to computers over the Internet using the http protocol while the second is supposed to make it easier to send digital photos to online print stores to order prints of them.
Homegroup was one of the first new features that came to light. It can connect Windows 7 computers in a home network so that they can share files and devices.
People Near Me is a service that is not explained in great detail. It basically allows a user to invite another user to join a program if the program is also installed on the other user’s computer and if the two computers are connected in a local network. There is no definition of programs. It could be entertainment related but also about communication or something completely different.
The last feature might cause lots of controversy. Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Services is an implementation of Trusted Computing which has caused privacy concerns.
The same document mentions Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 7 Ultimate which seems to suggest that Microsoft will release a similar amount of Windows 7 editions.
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Sounds like another truckload of useless crap.
>Online Print Ordering Wizard
This feature has been in Windows XP since 2001 :-)
>People Near Me is not explained in great detail
IF you want all details, just click Help and Support on Vista, People Near Me is a Vista (Ultimate?) feature.
And I’m saying again: better learn Ubuntu…
i agree, these features are just fluff. i’m happy with XP, and i don’t plan on changing anytime soon. i can’t think of anything i want my computer to do that it can’t do now. that might change in the future when XP no longer supports the current hardware trends, but i’ll deal with that when the time comes…
http://gizmodo.com/5069661/windows-7-walkthrough-boot-video-and-impressions
now that’s more like it! check out the screenshot near the bottom with the totally revamped taskbar. that’s what 7 needs – no new crap, but improvements on the crap that’s already there :)
still hate the baby-blue aero gui though…
Just like 90% of Vista… all of these embedded “features” are useless crap that most people will never use. They are only bogging down and slowing down the operating system… just like what they did with Vista. How stupid do you have to be to make these decisions at Microsoft?
An Operating System should be the BASIC OPERATION AND FUNCTION of your machine. It SHOULD NOT include every function and feature that you will ever use. Sure, they could include these with the install media and EACH USER should be able to install or uninstall all of these OPTIONAL features at any time.
If Microsoft would have done this with Vista, your Vista machine would probably run 10 times faster than it does now…
I can only see that Windows 7 will slow your system down EVEN MORE than Vista has done.
Vista should have never been released… it should have never been coded. It looks great, but it’s performance is garbage… XP runs circles around it… even 98SE (PUKE) will also run even faster circles around it.
PC now suck because of Microsoft… If Apple’s were three times the cost of PCs, I would have already switched… Thank god that idiot bought my crappy copy of Vista on ebay….
if you’re still useing XP what the hell are Mocking and Bragging about Vista stay with xp and stay away from and stop making commentss it’s just a bad a the Vista Mac Commercials