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Windows 7.0 - the successor of Vista (based on the NT kernel known as Windows 6.0). It still takes time to greet Windows 7, but some advanced features have gradually surfaced: a new streamlined kernel, built-in virtual machine to run old software, modified and simplified user interface...

This is a screenshot of the desktop that has been circulated on the Internet. It is said to be the Alpha beta version of Windows 7. Although it may be forged, it still attracts a lot of interest.

Not yet named

Maybe you would say that there is a name called Vienna? Forget it, the newly appointed Microsoft Vice President Steven Sinofsky has stopped the way it was named after the name of the city. So the name of Windows 7 will eventually appear in the public, it is still unknown, especially after the strange names of Me, XP, Vista.

But according to our news, Sinofsky may return to the most original name by year, like Windows95. After all, Microsoft's other products are in accordance with this rule, such as Office software, such a naming method is not bad.

If you speculate, then its name will be Windows 2010. Because Windows 7 first appeared through the official mouth, it was at the Microsoft Global Exchange sales conference in Orlando in July. A spokesperson said: Microsoft has made a three-year development plan for Windows 7. This means that it will not be available until 2010 at the earliest.

Another screenshot from osbeta.org is said to be Windows 7

Virtual machine for old software

There are indications that Windows 7 will The non-native programs will be run using virtual machines, a message leaked from the Channel 9 community that was subordinated to Microsoft in July.

Although this is very novel for Microsoft, it is not Microsoft's first initiative. When Apple migrated from the Mac OS Classic environment to the Mac OS X environment, it provided the classic OS environment on the virtual machine. Used to run those old software.

Currently, no one can ensure that any technology appears on the Windows 7 roster, just as Microsoft promised to add WinFS to Vista, but what happened?

Operating system-based virtual machines are still very likely to be implemented, because Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization technology has been applied in Windows Sever 2008.

Moreover, by 2010, hardware performance will no longer have any problems. By then, the quad core will replace the dual core called the mainstream, and will have a large capacity of the third level cache.

A large-capacity L3 cache has appeared on AMD's Barcelona architecture. In the second half of 2008, Intel's next-generation processor, Nehalem, will also be used. (In fact, in 2010, when Windows 7 appeared, Intel has entered the Gesher era.)

Imagine using one of the eight core processors to run virtual machines, as well as flash drives and up to 4GB. Memory is used to improve performance.

The third legendary Windows 7 screenshot

About the kernel

We all know that the next generation of Windows will use a streamlined codename For MinWin's "microkernel", according to previous reports, MinWin is known as the source code library for Windows 7. MinWin is still in internal development. In a Microsoft virtual technology show in October, Microsoft engineer Eric Traut said that all Windows systems will be based on MinWin.

& ldquo;It's not just the operating system running in your laptop, it will run on multimedia servers, as well as embedded devices. ”

Traut showed that MinWin, which contains only one hundred files, occupies 25MB of hard disk and runs in 40MB of memory. Traut said that this is still a bit larger than expected, but the internal structure of this core is already very clear. Perhaps it can be further streamlined.

For a video about this presentation, readers can find it on youtube

WinFS Regression

More people care about whether WinFS will appear in In the next generation of Windows, this is a new generation of file systems based on relationship management.

WinFS used the SQL Server 2005 engine Yukon, natively supporting XML, which was once promoted as one of Vista's main features. However, it was later because it could not achieve the performance of the current NTFS file system.

In addition to the initial commitment of Microsoft, it will join WinFS one year after the release of Vista. Recently, it has been reported that WinFS will be one of the core technologies of the Katmai engine used by SQL Server 2008. So the file system of Windows 7 may be based on the Katmai engine, and the name WinFS may have left behind the scenes.

New look

There is no doubt that the next-generation Windows interface will be fully innovated. Sinofsky has already taken an adventure on Office 2007, converting all the traditional menus, toolbars, etc. into a Ribbon interface. It turns out that consumers have accepted this change.

The Ribbon interface was designed by Julie Larson-Green. She is currently assigned by Sinofsky to the Windows 7 development department responsible for the development of the “User Experience”.

So will Windows 7 look the same as Office 2007? Hard to say. Julie designed the Ribbon not to determine a design standard, but to consider the functional requirements of Office itself. So when she designed Windows 7, she also overturned the previous design ideas and rethought the interface that needs to be provided to the user as an operating system. Although the specific design is not too clear, at least we can be sure that the icon "Visa" is full of icons, "Control Panel" will no longer exist.

Office 2007 Interface

Can be completely customized

The article leaking information about Virtual Machine from Channel 9 also reveals a Important: The entire UI is highly customizable, which may mean that the overall UI's dependency on the Explorer will be greatly reduced.

In fact, since Windows Server 2008, users have been allowed to install a mode called Server Core. This is a purely core installation, without the help of Explorer, interacting with the core through the command line.

But we still don't want to be too excited. At that time, Microsoft's pile of writers said that XP's Luna interface will completely subvert the classic interface, custom features, etc. …… We didn't see anything.

The same thing happened on Vista, in the early days of Longhorn, only when the screenshots leaked out. We also think that this UI will be revolutionary, and in the end, UI design falls into third-party companies.

This is the information about Windows 7 so far. Of course, this is just the first few steps towards the Windows 7 road, but it seems to be quite fascinating!

Steven Sinofsky is full of confidence