Pdc 2008 windows 7

Search extends into contacts, e-mail subjects, names of documents, playlists, song titles and even the names of individual settings in your Windows Control Panel. It also learns from you, bringing the things you use the most to the top of the results. Remember the famously intrusive User Account Control system in Vista?

How could you forget, right? As expected, Microsoft has scaled back the pop-ups for all users. Furthermore, advanced users with admin rights can set a slider based on their own preferences.

That way, only the most important messages get through, and notifications for things like the built-in firewall can be disabled. Put multiple Windows 7 PCs on a single network and they'll all find and connect to one another, forming a HomeGroup. Users can then browse all of the media stored across the multiple PCs as though they were all on the same hard drive.

Sharing within any folder can be disabled for security reasons. You also get location-aware printing — click print and the system will pick the printer closest to you. Windows 7's device manager gives you a single window for interacting with your various gadgets.

Plug in your cameras, MP3 players and printers, and you'll be able to see all of them listed in the Device Stage window. Click on a device to get details on its status — battery charge, available storage space, the time and date of your last sync and so on. From within the same interface, you can sync it, manage your photos, music or ringtones you have stored on it, or any other device-specific task. At the Microsoft PDC show you hear a lot of rumors about tomorrows Windows pre-beta bits we're supposed to receive.

One thing's not a rumor - PDC attendees get all the software Microsoft's handing out on a free MB portable drive. Here are the rumors I'm hearing about Windows 7. We'll see tomorrow if any of these are accurate, but some rumors are more than just Windows 7 features. I'm sure there's tons of other rumors floating around but those are the ones I've heard since arriving at PDC Note that none of these rumors were from Microsoft employees, just floating around among conference attendees.

Focus is on adding presence, voice and conferencing within business applications. If you've checked out Microsoft's OCS lately, you know this product has really come a long way. PDC Visit Microsoft Subnet for more news, blogs, opinion from around the Web. Sign up for the bi-weekly Microsoft newsletter. Here are the latest Insider stories.

The "Action Center" is one place to go to maintain the security and look at your PC's performance in Windows 7. Phones, printers, and other computers are all displayed. When you come home, Windows 7 automatically changes to the home printer, and switches to the office printer when connected at the office. You can control what's visible to others in the home -- by default it's pictures, music, documents, videos.

Home Group appears to be an updated version of network browsing, with added functionality similar to Apple's Bonjour. Library locations can be different storage devices other computer, USB drive, etc.

Hovering over an icon's application in the taskbar shows the open windows, which can be closed from the pop-up. Right clicking an application icon shows the "Jump list" which lets users quickly reach a specific document. It's every company's front door. Phone software is very close to the PC software, but Ozzie says the real advantage is that it's always with you. But the Net and the PC are still two worlds apart. A view with the perspective of the user You'll get a sense of our take on personal computing in an era that's not just about the PC anymore, but has grown to be about the PC, phone and Web.

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