Seven Ridiculous Windows 7 Innovations
2009 November 8
If you paid 200$ to upgrade to Windows 7 and you wonder where all that money went to, consider the following list of innovations that come along with Windows 7:
- The new Calculator: this is ultimate value for Windows 7. Innovation number one, the new calculator has statistics and programmer’s options. Isn’t that great? A brand new OS with a brand new calculator. Now, when you’re with a client, take the opportunity to impress him with the statistics calc. Same thing if you’re in school. Show the programmer calc to hook up with the nicest chicks. This one alone covers the whole $200.
Do I look good or what?
- All new Taskbar: When you have multiple windows of the same application open, they get stacked under the same window. When you move the mouse over it, the list of open windows will show up and you can select the one you are looking for. Not only this radical Windows-7-only innovation is good for my business (productivity?), but it is also cute. Thank you Microsoft for improving my life and making computing a more joyful experience.
- Ribbon Wordpad: This feature might go as far as making me use Wordpad! I mean older versions of Wordpad were so hard to use that I wasn’t using them at all. Now, thanks to the Ribbon, I can find those numerous functions more easily and be more productive when using Wordpad. I hope you enjoy this innovation as much as I do.
Ribbon Wordpad has a total of 5.3 functions!
- All new ‘Show Desktop’ button: No more removing the ‘Show desktop’ icon by mistake from the ‘Quick Launch’ bar. The button is moved to the left of the task bar. On guess what: when you move the mouse over it, all open Windows will become transparent. This is great when you wanna close a big contract with your client: put a nice picture of your wife as the desktop background and ‘accidentally’ use this feature to show your desktop. It might actually increase your chances of closing that contract!
- All new ‘Drag and snag windows’ feature: after using it, I realized that I need this feature twice a month in average. Every time, I can save up to 20 seconds which means that in 5 years, I’ll be saving 10 minutes! This is 10 minutes where I can watch ‘So You Think You Can Dance Canada’.
- Sticky notes: thanks to this wonderful innovation, I won’t forget a thing anymore. Every time I have something important to do, I just create a sticky note. Without Windows 7, my life would have been a nightmare. Thank you Microsoft!
Sticky note: I needed this feature...
- No more ‘Quick Launch’ bar: this is one of the best. When I installed Firefox with the option of having a shortcut on the ‘Quick Launch’ toolbar, I was surprised to see that the shortcut wasn’t there. Bravo Microsoft, what an effective way of getting rid of Firefox. Now, people will be forced to use Internet Explorer because they won’t find Firefox shortcut, Ha Ha Ha (evil laughter).
Ok, you can now admit it: you just lost $200.
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No offense but I think you’re just being ridiculous with this post….either that or you’re probably jealous of W7.
Unless you just upgraded directly from Windows 3.1 or something, everyone know that the features you listed are NOT the biggest enhancements to this OS.
And you seem to have conveniently forgotten that it is leaner (runs better on netbooks), uses less recourses and is overall a lot stable.
Windows7 does a lot of things right that Vista messed up; and NO you can’t be still stick to xp because let’s face it: IT IS SEVEN YEARS OLD…which is an eternity in computing terms.
The bottom line is, everyone who ever bought a new computer within the last 3years got stuck with Vista – which actually was a crazy OS…and that alone is enough reason to upgrade.