Win7 subvert the Win Vista system several reasons - Sweet IT.Net

Windows7Beta was a huge success on its debut, with many media and critics giving it positive reviews. Due to the high volume of users downloading, Microsoft has even repeatedly delayed the deadline for downloading. It is highly unusual for a product that is only in beta to be so popular. Windows7 and the previously criticized Vista are developed on the Longhorn architecture, the same Microsoft "6" family products, what is the reason for the situation of the two very different? It's subversion! Although Windows7 and Vista are based on the same kernel development, although the two have a very deep blood relationship, but by subverting the main features of Vista, Windows7 has finally become the most qualified successor to WindowsXP!

User interface: Practical, not fancy

When Vista came out two years ago, its cool Flip3D effects and eye-pleasing Aero effects left a "gorgeous" impression on most users. But behind the "gorgeous", Vista has not brought substantial functional improvements to people, and most enterprise customers and ordinary users still adhere to the "simple" WindowsXP. "Fancy" turns into "fancy."

In Vista, Flip3D effects, in addition to showing off the hardware configuration, are even less practical than traditional previews. Windows7 overturns Vista's "only" beautiful design and returns to the tradition of practicality. For example, the much-lauded new taskbar isn't any fancier than Vista, but it has more than 10 features added, such as: Group window preview, program access history and favorites (JumpList), quick launch method and program button integration, arbitrary drag icon position on the taskbar, program button and progress bar function, all are ingenious design.

Vista's Flip3D is used more for presentations than everyday applications

Aero effects have no practical value on Vista other than to create a transparent window and start menu. Windows7's new Aero effects focus on solving the user experience. AeroPeek, for example, allows users to "see through" the desktop without minimizing the current window, or to preview the zoomed window before zooming it. AeroSnaps and AeroShake add a variety of mouse or shortcut operations for window arrangement and resize, greatly facilitating the user experience in multi-window environments.

Moreover, even without adequate hardware support, the new taskbar still works for the most part, and the last two of Aero's three new effects still work, unlike Vista, where the lack of hardware support instantly "disappears."

By moving the mouse to the bottom right corner of the screen, or pressing, the user can see through all the Windows to see the desktop through the AeroPeek function

Human-computer interaction: Keep it simple but not complicated

In Vista, users who want to switch between multiple display devices need at least four mouse clicks to open two dialog boxes; With Windows7, all you have to do is press key combinations. "Tedious", this is the user's consistent impression of Vista's human-computer interaction features, and Windows7 is completely overturning this impression.

In Windows7, switching display devices is no longer a chore

Plug a smartphone into a Vista computer, and in extreme cases it may be identified as four devices: a phone, an external hard drive, a camera and an MP3 player, and you have to interact with the devices four times. In Windows7, all you have to do is wait for the "device station" (DeviceStage) to automatically pop up, you only need to complete human-computer interaction under this unified interface, such as copying data, synchronizing information, upgrading firmware and so on.

The "Device station" provides users with a simple and intuitive interaction platform

Windows7's biggest disruption to Vista in terms of human-computer interaction is the "action center." In Vista, users have to constantly face a variety of system alerts, and they have different sources, such as problem reports, update information, Defender, anti-virus software, UAC control, system restore, and users have to spend a lot of effort to open different programs or services to deal with. "Operation Center" provides users with a unified interactive interface, on Windows7, users only need to deal with the "operation center" can view, process and set the prompt information in a unified interface, the convenience is self-evident.

Web applications: Open, not closed

The purpose of the Web2.0 era is open, collaboration and sharing, but Vista still reflects the characteristics of "closed" everywhere, the application model of the Web2.0 era such as Blog, Wiki, SaaS, etc., is not reflected in Vista, one of the most typical examples: Whether it's Internet Explorer, the Start menu, or a regular window, type a keyword into the "search" bar, and Vista always invokes Microsoft's LiveSearch engine for a search -- never mind the quality of LiveSearch.

Windows7 is finally starting to disrupt one of Microsoft's most stubborn areas. A classic example of disruptive action is the FederatedSearch feature. Simply put, this function allows users to carry out web search, but unlike the traditional search mode that only calls a single search engine mechanism, it uses a variety of search methods to integrate the mode, so called "joint" search, and is open source, that is, allows any user to create their own "searchconnectors" (searchconnectors) for remote search. For example, you can use Internet Explorer to search Flickr or Twitter from your desktop.

"Open" is reflected in the new "PlayTo" feature in MediaPlayer12, which can control any player on the network (if permissions are allowed); "Open" is reflected in Windows7 full support for Internet printing services; The "openness" is also reflected in the "Media Center" starting to support InternetTV.

Technical style: Be original, don't copy

In the early days of Vista's release, many users