Thread: Microsoft Paint,one of the most familiar Windows accersories

Microsoft is letting more and more information about Windows 7 become public. The company has posted many details about its development on their blog, and so we know that engineers are paying special attention to the performance, for instance improving the time it takes to boot a machine and display the user's desktop. It was also announced that the development code name "Windows 7" had been chosen as the final release name as well.



Moreover, Microsoft wants to remove many familiar applications such as Windows Movie Maker and offer them as optional components as part of the Windows Live suite of online applications in the future. Though there are few concrete details about cosmetic changes at the moment, the "Ribbon" menus widely used in Office 2007 will almost certainly be seen throughout applications in Windows 7, including Paint and Word pad. The Ribbon interface groups functions and eliminates clicking through menus and submenus.

Microsoft is also widely expected to release a preliminary beta version to the participants of its Professional Developers' Conference in October. he inventors of the T9 predictive input system widely used on cellphones today have developed a new text input method for touchscreen devices. Using the software called Swype, one simply has to slide a finger or stylus over the desired letters on an on-screen keyboard instead of pressing where each key is drawn. Text input could become a lot faster and easier this way. Similar systems have been seen before, including ShapeWriter for the iPhone.