What is Windows® 7?
Microsoft® Windows 7® is an operating system for personal and business computers, including both desktops and laptops. During its development, Windows 7 was code named Blackhorn and Vienna. An unofficial beta of Windows 7 was leaked to the Internet in the latter part of December 2008, while Microsoft released the official beta in January 2009. Windows 7 succeeds the Vista® operating system, and is considered an incremental upgrade to Vista. Reviews of the beta versions of Windows 7 have been fairly uniform in assessment. In a nutshell, Windows 7 is reportedly a faster version of Vista. In a few cases the benchmarks of this operating system beat Vista and XP®, scoring higher in areas such as faster boot and shut-down times and faster access in working with files and documents. In other key areas including general office activities and video editing, XP remains faster. The Vista operating system received wide criticism for being a slow operating system while consuming a great deal of sys
