What Microsoft said it did with Windows 7 is that it listened a lot. The program was tested on more than eight million users. After all, when you have a billion people using PCs out there, you are bound to get millions of suggestions.

What makes Windows 7 click?
The first key principle was to simplify tasks. Windows 7 has made doing things that used to take three to four mouse clicks to open, just one click. Launching programs has also been made easier and faster.

Connecting to the internet and searching for info have also been made easiest So is searching for programs within the PC.

The second key principle is that the program works not the way Microsoft wants, but rather, the way PC owners want it to.

The third principle was to make new things possible.

LET’S BOOT IN

Install, turn on, turn off. Microsoft made sure to give Windows 7 a nice look when it came to these things as it is fast and lightweight.

Everybody who’s used a modern operating system for more than five minutes has met with the hassle of juggling too many windows, and Windows 7 Aero Peek seeks to alleviate some of these hassles. Aero Peek lets one hover over a “show desktop” field on the right of the task bar and shows the outlines of every window, which is open — which usually amounts to chaos.

More helpful though is the ability to hover over the thumbnails that pop up from the taskbar app groupings, and isolate that specific window while all other windows are sent to outline mode. It serves as both geography lesson and a rapid navigation method without feeling clunky. It was lots of fun to grab the title bar of a window and give it a vigorous shake to minimize all other windows. It’s fun when you’re changing tasks and want to rid yourself of the clutter of your previous activities.

Windows 7 has a pop-up menu at the start. Once you start typing and proceed to search, the results start appearing. The start menu has also been enhanced with a refined layout and supplemental menus for frequently used items that give access to recent items used by that application, along with the new “tasks” list that Microsoft has snuck into the OS.

The Aero Snap app offers an intelligent way of working with windows using click and drag. I had fun maximizing the screen by pulling a document to the top of the screen, or filling one half of the screen by dragging it to the far left or right edge of the screen.