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Windows 7 sales broke all previousrecords

In just one month from its launch, the spread of Window 7 is much

higher i.e. around 10 times faster as compared to Windows Vista.Expansion of Windows 7 is much faster than expected in bothenterprise market and consumer market. A Korean reseller companysaid that the market share of the Windows 7 computers have exceeded70% not only in online market but in offline market as well. Statisticssays that the market share will exceed 90% by the end of this yearwhich was just 5% for Vista in the given duration.

Scenario is not much different in the global market as well. Within just18 days after the launch of Windows 7, it occupied 4% of the entire OSmarket. Vista reached the same statistics after 6 months. Microsofts

most versions of Windows OS were first expanded in enterprisemarket. On the contrary Windows 7 is getting more popular among thegeneral consumers. The Korean branch of Microsoft reported that itsold out 4000 copies of Windows 7 in one month.

Since Windows 7 has no limitation of high-end PC, more and moreconsumers are installing the full package product through retailers assaid by team chief at Intech and Company. General public want toupgrade to Windows 7. As compared to Vista, sales of Windows 7 aretwice higher around the world.

Steve Ballmer declared about the shooting sales of Windows 7operating system. However, he has not revealed any sales figure. Inthe same meeting the announcement for the beta version of MicrosoftOffice 2010 is also announced. A number of proposals from Microsoftincluding the economic downturns and employees layoff was alsoannounced in the annual shareholder meeting in Bellevue.

First look at Windows 7's UserInterface

Microsoft has given us a first glimpse as Windows 7. The taskbar haschanged significantly, and there are a number of other changes wehave screenshots of.
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At PDC today, Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of Windows7. Until now, the company has been uncharacteristically secretiveabout its new OS; over the past few months, Microsoft has let on thatthe taskbar will undergo a number of changes, and that many bundledapplications would be unbundled and shipped with Windows Live

instead. There have also been occasional screenshots of some of thenew applets like Calculator and Paint. Now that the covers are finallyoff, the scale of the new OS becomes clear. The user interface hasundergone the most radical overhaul and update since the introductionof Windows 95 thirteen years ago.

First, however, it's important to note what Windows 7 isn't. Windows 7will not contain anything like the kind of far-reaching architecturalmodifications that Microsoft made with Windows Vista. Vista brought anew display layer and vastly improved security, but that came at acost: a significant number of (badly-written) applications had difficulty

running on Vista. Applications expecting to run with Administratoraccess were still widespread when Vista was released, and thoughmany software vendors do a great job, there are still those that haven'tupdated or fixed their software. Similarly, at its launch many hardwarevendors did not have drivers that worked with the new sound or videosubsystems, leaving many users frustrated.

While windows 7 doesn't undo these architectural changesthey wereessential for the long-term health of the platformit equally hasn'tmade any more. Any hardware or software that works with WindowsVista should also work correctly with Windows 7, so unlike the

transition from XP to Vista, the transition from Vista to 7 won't showany regressions; nothing that used to work will stop working.

So, rather than low-level, largely invisible system changes, the work onWindows 7 has focused much more on the user experience. The waypeople use computers is changing; for example, it's increasingly thecase that new PCs are bought to augment existing home machinesrather than replacement, so there are more home networks and shareddevices. Business users are switching to laptops, with the result thatpeople expect to seamlessly use their (Domain-joined) office PC ontheir home network.

As well as these broader industry trends, Microsoft also has extensivedata on how people use its software. Through the Customer ExperienceImprovement Program (CEIP), an optional, off-by-default feature ofmany Microsoft programs, the company has learned a great deal aboutthe things that users do. For example, from CEIP data Microsoft knowsthat 70% of users have between 5 and 15 windows open at any onetime, and that most of the time they only actively use one or two of


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those windows. With this kind of data, Microsoft has streamlined andrefined the user experience.

The biggest visible result of all this is the taskbar. The taskbar inWindows 7 is worlds apart from the taskbar we've known and loved

ever since the days ofChicago.

Windows 7 Sells Faster ThanVista

Despite being released in a more challenging economic time,Microsofts latest operating system Windows 7 is selling at a muchfaster pace than its predecessor Vista. Microsofts chief executive,Steve Ballmer, informed in the annual share holder meeting of

Microsoft that Windows 7 has sold twice as much copy as ofWindowsVista in its first month. Statistics says that instead of bad reviews Vistasold about 20 million copies in first month which gives us an idea that,according to Ballmer statement, Windows 7 must have sold more than40 million copies in its first month. In fact according to a markettracker NPD, Windows 7 sold 239% over Vista.

At Microsofts annual meeting, Ballmer told that Windows 7 has givenMicrosoft the power to get back the customers who have adopted MacOSX. In the down economy, Mac OS is costlier as compared to Windowsfor the same PC. He also added that young people who are usually

fond of Mac OS will outgrow their feeling as a result of the influentialmarketing strategy of Windows 7 and some people will do that as aphase of life

The statistics from New Zealands two highly traffic Website (NBR.co.nzand Trademe-easily) will give you a fair idea about the market shareof different OS. The amazing thing is the consistency of Windows XPsince long.
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Windows 7 startup time tends to degrade with time

The PC tune-up developers reveal that Microsofts new operatingsystem, Windows 7, starts up much slower than Windows Vista and its


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booting speed tends to go slower with time. This statement contradictsthe statement made by Microsoft company.

The Los Angeles maker of PC software, iolo Technologies, contradictMicrosofts claim by remarking that Windows 7 doesnt boot faster.

Corresponds to iolo tests, Windows 7 boots 42% slower than itspredecessor, the company also reveals the study result on a brand newmachine Windows 7 take one minute 34 seconds whereas one minutesix seconds is taken by Windows Vista to boot up. It seems thatWindows 7 boot faster but iolo measured the startup with a low load onthe fully usable computer.

Microsoft stated that they have devoted significant resources to makeWindows 7 boot and regain from the sleep and hibernation faster thanVista, after they got severe criticism in 2007 for Windows Vista startingslowly. PC World, a sister publication of Computerworld also measured

the new operating system, Windows 7, against Windows Vista andreported that Windows 7 boots 10% slower than Vista in case of 32-bitversion and boots 14% faster on 64-bit, when compared.

The statement released by iolo also states that the booting time fornew operating system tends to degrade over time like windows Vista.After many commonly based applications have been installed inWindows 7 box, its startup time increases to two minutes, 34 secondswhich is an increase of about 64%. Over the time, Windows 7 willrespond much slower. And by the end of two years, the startup timefor Windows 7 would increase to 330%.

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Windows 7 A Success Story For Microsoft
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A research market research done recently clearly states that Windows7 is increasing its market share by manifolds. Rate of growth at whichWindows 7 is gaining popularity is much more than its predecessor,Windows Vista. Vista took several months to set its popularity amongstthe users, whereas Windows 7 has reportedly shown increase in itsmarket share in relatively short time.

Users are even ready to dumb off their old XP boxes and are buyingnew PCs that are more compatible with Windows 7. There is not asingle reason that makes Windows 7 a widely demanded OS, but it is a

host of factors that users are not even thinking once to replace their XPPCs with Windows 7 PCs. Listed here are few of them:

Enhanced version of ReadyBoost, which is a new tool that aids inbooting of the computer even under a low memory situation anduses flash memory

Increased graphic performance Detection of battery status with BattCursor Highly useful mini-applications gadgets to keep you updated by

providing access to changing information such as current time,weather, stock quotes, new feeds

Enhanced desktop to manage workplace in an easier manner

Further, this operating system is available at the most economicalprices, which again makes Windows 7 one of the most rapidlyincreasing OS on the world. If you are a professional, upgrading yoursystems to Windows 7 will cost you approximately $200, where as TheHome Premium is available at $120.


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Owner of Microsoft, Bill Gates, in an interview said that Windows 7 is auser-centric operating system and would focus on performanceimprovements. Keeping to his words, Windows 7 launched by Microsoftis user friendly OS with advanced features. Some of the features are asfollows:

Touch and handwriting recognition Support for virtual hard disks Improved performance on multi-core processors Improved boot performance DirectAccess Kernel improvements

It had been reported that within eight hours of its launch, pre-orders ofWindows 7 at Amazon.co.uk surpassed the demand Windows Vista hadin its first 17 weeks and thus, became the highest grossing order in

online shopping history. Even the reviews of Windows 7 by the expertswere far more positive and they even praised its usability incomparison to Windows Vista. Leading media companies andmagazines, such as CNER and PC magazine rated it 4 stars andappraised this operating system as it has lesser compatibilityproblems, a retooled taskbar, simpler home networking and fasterstart-up.

Marketed as Making your PC simpler, Windows Vista provides thereal value of peoples money and has helped Microsoft in adding onemore star to its success.

Windows 7 betters the mark of Vista


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Microsoft is riding high on the

success of Windows 7 after Vista was poorly received by enterprises.

Windows 7 so far has been doing a lot better than Vista and is quicklycommanding a good share in the computer market. Early reportsrevealed that the retail box sales of Windows 7 were up by a whopping234% in comparison to sales of Vista at the same given point of time. Afresh report has now been disclosed by Net Applications that showsthat the new Windows 7 has significantly enhanced its share of theoverall PC market since its release.

The migration rate among users is much more than the adoption rate

of Vista over the same period. Windows 7 has grown 84% in marketshare when it took Vista nearly about six months to to generate 4 % ofthe OS market when it was launched. Windows operating systems of alldesigns own 92.5% of the OS market, a little less than 93.06% that itowned in August 2009. Linux has a hold of 0.96% of the OS marketwith Mac owning 5.27%.

The software giant is continuously promoting the new operatingsystem with discounts and promotional schemes and partnering upwith retailers like Best Buy. It is also trying to make upgrades fromoperating systems like XP to Windows 7 a lot more simplified because

there is no provision for a direct upgrade path between the twooperating systems.

Microsoft has claimed that sales of Windows 7 will be attached to thesales of PCs moving ahead, which have plummeted due to the pooreconomy. All is well; however, PC sales are currently growing with a95% increase in the weeks before and after Windows 7 was released.This is an area where Vista holds an edge over Windows 7. PC sales
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soared to 170% after the Vista was released.Microsofts marketinginvestment to support its Windows 7 operating system looks like it haspaid off.

Another development is Microsofts Buzz. It is actually purely a

measure to figure out if people have listened to positive or negativestatements about the brand, it soared from 5.2 on 9 October to 23.7 ina month. The campaign, featuring a caption Im a PC and Windows 7was my idea, was released on 22 October. However nothing is still toosure and uncertainty looms large. This resulted with the Buzz ratingrose to 10.5, just the day before launch. Microsoft is upbeat toestablish Windows 7 as the best thing from its scheme of things beforeGoogle launches its operating system Chrome.

OSReal time

A real-time operating system (RTOS) is a multitasking operatingsystem intended for real-time applications. Such applications includeembedded systems (programmable thermostats, household appliancecontrollers), industrial robots, spacecraft, industrial control (seeSCADA), and scientific research equipment.

A RTOS facilitates the creation of a real-time system, but does notguarantee the final result will be real-time; this requires correctdevelopment of the software. An RTOS does not necessarily have highthroughput; rather, an RTOS provides facilities which, if used properly,

guarantee deadlines can be met generally or deterministically (knownas soft or hard real-time, respectively). An RTOS will typically usespecialized scheduling algorithms in order to provide the real-timedeveloper with the tools necessary to produce deterministic behaviorin the final system. An RTOS is valued more for how quickly and/orpredictably it can respond to a particular event than for the amount ofwork it can perform over a given period of time. Key factors in an RTOSare therefore a minimal interrupt latency and a minimal threadswitching latency.

Multi tasking

In computing, multitasking is a method by which multiple tasks, alsoknown as processes, share common processing resources such as aCPU. In the case of a computer with a single CPU, only one task is saidto be running at any point in time, meaning that the CPU is activelyexecuting instructions for that task. Multitasking solves the problem byscheduling which task may be the one running at any given time, andwhen another waiting task gets a turn. The act of reassigning a CPUfrom one task to another one is called a context switch.
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Multi threading

In computer science, a thread of execution results from a fork of a

computer program into two or more concurrently running tasks. Theimplementation of threads and processes differs from one operatingsystem to another, but in most cases, a thread is contained inside aprocess. Multiple threads can exist within the same process and shareresources such as memory, while different processes do not sharethese resources.

On a single processor, multithreading generally occurs by time-division multiplexing (as in multitasking): the processor switchesbetween different threads. This context switching generally happensfrequently enough that the user perceives the threads or tasks as

running at the same time. On a multiprocessor or multi-core system,the threads or tasks will generally run at the same time, with eachprocessor or core running a particular thread or task. Support forthreads in programming languages varies. A number of languagessupport multiple threads but do not allow them to execute at the sametime. Examples of such languages include Python (at least the Cversion, also known as CPython, but not IronPython or Jython), andOCaml, because the parallel support of their runtime environment isbased on a central lock, called the "Global Interpreter Lock" in Pythonand the "master lock" in Ocaml. Other languages may be limitedbecause they use threads that are user threads, which are not visible

to the kernel, and thus cannot be scheduled to run concurrently. Onthe other hand, kernel threads, which are visible to the kernel, can runconcurrently.

Multi processing

Multiprocessing is the use of two or more central processing units(CPUs) within a single computer system. The term also refers to theability of a system to support more than one processor and/or theability to allocate tasks between them.[1] There are many variations onthis basic theme, and the definition of multiprocessing can vary with

context, mostly as a function of how CPUs are defined (multiple coreson one die, multiple chips in one package, multiple packages in onesystem unit, etc.).

Multiprocessing sometimes refers to the execution of multipleconcurrent software processes in a system as opposed to a singleprocess at any one instant. However, the terms multitasking ormultiprogramming are more appropriate to describe this concept,
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which is implemented mostly in software, whereas multiprocessing ismore appropriate to describe the use of multiple hardware CPUs. Asystem can be both multiprocessing and multiprogramming, only oneof the two, or neither of the two.

Multi-user is a term that defines an operating system or applicationsoftware that allows concurrent access by multiple users of acomputer. Time-sharing systems are multi-user systems. Most batchprocessing systems for mainframe computers may also be considered"multi-user", to avoid leaving the CPU idle while it waits for I/Ooperations to complete. However, the term "multitasking" is morecommon in this context.

An example is a Unix server where multiple remote users have access(such as via Secure Shell) to the Unix shell prompt at the same time.Another example uses multiple X Window sessions spread across

multiple terminals powered by a single machine - this is an example ofthe use ofthin client.

UNIXcomputer science) An operating system that was designed for use withmicroprocessors and with the C programming language, and that hasbeen adopted for use with several 16-bit-microprocessormicrocomputers.

MACMac OS is the trademarked name for a series of graphical user

interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. (formerlyApple Computer, Inc.) for their Macintosh line of computer systems. The Macintosh user experience is credited with popularizing thegraphical user interface. The original form of what Apple would latername the "Mac OS" was the integral and unnamed system softwarefirst introduced in 1984 with the original Macintosh, usually referred tosimply as the System software.

MS WINDOWS

Microsoft Windows is a series of software operating systems andgraphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft firstintroduced an operating environment named Windows in November1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest ingraphical user interfaces (GUIs).[1] Microsoft Windows came todominate the world's personal computer market, overtaking Mac OS,which had been introduced previously. As of October 2009, Windows
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had approximately 91% of the market share of the client operatingsystems for usage on the Internet.[2][3][4] The most recent client versionof Windows is Windows 7; the most recent server version is WindowsServer 2008 R2.

Windows NTwas released in July 1993. It was originally designed to be a powerfulhigh-level-language-based, processor-independent, multiprocessing,multiuser operating system with features comparable to Unix. It wasintended to complement consumer versions of Windows that werebased on MS-DOS. NT was the first fully 32-bit version of Windows,whereas its consumer-oriented counterparts, Windows 3.1x andWindows 9x, were 16-bit/32-bit hybrids. Windows 2000, Windows XP,Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Home Server, WindowsServer 2008 and Windows 7 are based on Windows NT, although theyare not branded as Windows NT

LINUX

Linux (commonly pronounced /l n ks/, LI-nuks in English[5][6], alsopronounced /l n ks/[7] ) is a generic term referring to Unix-likecomputer operating systems based on the Linux kernel. Theirdevelopment is one of the most prominent examples of free and opensource software collaboration;[citation needed] typically all the underlyingsource code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed, bothcommercially and non-commercially, by anyone under licenses such asthe GNU GPL.

Linux is predominantly known for its use in servers, although can beinstalled on a wide variety of computer hardware, ranging fromembedded devices, mobile phones and even some watches[8] tosupercomputers.[9] Linux distributions, installed on both desktop andlaptop computers, have become increasingly commonplace in recentyears, partly owing to the popular Ubuntu distribution[10] and theemergence ofnetbooks.[11]

The name "Linux" comes from the Linux kernel, originally written in1991 by Linus Torvalds. The rest of the system usually comprises

components such as the Apache HTTP Server, the X Window System,the GNOME and KDEdesktop environments, and utilities and librariesfrom the GNU Project (announced in 1983 by Richard Stallman).Commonly-used applications with desktop Linux systems include theMozilla Firefox web-browser and the OpenOffice.org office applicationsuite. The GNU contribution is the basis for the Free SoftwareFoundation's preferred name GNU/Linux.[12][13]
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Ubuntu (pronounced /u bu ntu /),[2][3] is a computer operating systembased on the DebianLinux distribution. It is named after the SouthernAfrican ethical ideology Ubuntu ("humanity towards others")[4] and is

distributed as free and open source software. Ubuntu provides an up-to-date, stable operating system for the average user, with a strongfocus on usability and ease of installation. Ubuntu has been selectedby readers of desktoplinux.com as the most popular Linux distributionfor the desktop, claiming approximately 30% of Linux desktopinstallations in both 2006 and 2007.[5][6]

Ubuntu is composed of multiple software packages of which the vastmajority is distributed under a free software license (also known asopen source). The main license used is the GNU General Public License(GNU GPL) which, along with the GNU Lesser General Public License

(GNU LGPL), explicitly declare that users are free to run, copy,distribute, study, change, develop and improve the software. Ubuntu issponsored by the UK based company Canonical Ltd., owned by SouthAfrican entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth. By keeping Ubuntu free andopen source, Canonical is able to utilize the talents of communitydevelopers in Ubuntu's constituent components. Instead of sellingUbuntu for profit, Canonical creates revenue by selling technicalsupport and from creating several services tied to Ubuntu.
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