But Vista’s UAC essentially has only two settings: on and off. Windows 7 still lets you opt for full ... Also in the future OS: a refresh of Calculator, and a Sticky Notes feature that supports ...

Unlike Vista, Windows 7 rarely thrashed my notebook's hard disk ... (but retaining an updated version of Paint, wordpad and calculator), a configurable System Restore (which can be set to minimise ...

There have also been occasional screenshots of some of the new applets like Calculator and ... that works with Windows Vista should also work correctly with Windows 7, so unlike the transition ...

Fast forward a few months and this week Microsoft finally introduced its public BETA of the Windows 7 operating system, in the Ultimate flavor, which MS claim is basically the equivalent of Vista ...

you can also upgrade a few of your current applications to have the Windows 7 touch. The first of these is the tried and tested Calculator, which is much bigger and prettier than the standard one ...

Perhaps you should forget about Vista and Windows 7 altogether, opting for the mature XP instead? The choice might be easy. If you have old or extremely basic hardware, for instance, then XP will ...

Comparing the Windows Vista retail pricing at launch to the Windows 7 retail pricing at launch, the differences are much more notable. The Home Premium upgrade version has dropped $40 and the ...

Windows 7 already has scored points for being a better operating system than its predecessor Vista because it's easier to use and control. From Seattle, NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports on how ...

Build 7600.1685 has been chosen for the RTM, and our colleagues at ZDNet Germany used this version to test the performance of Windows 7 against Vista and XP on various platforms. The time it takes ...

With that said, I'm looking forward to getting into Windows 7. One of the biggest reasons people didn't take to Vista so quickly was because of the VGA performance in it originally being worse ...