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Windows 7 includes the new Windows Biometric Framework. [98] This framework consists of a set of components that standardizes the use of fingerprint biometric devices. In prior releases of Microsoft Windows, biometric hardware device manufacturers were required to provide a complete stack of software to support their device, including device ...
While Windows 7 contains many new features, a number of capabilities and certain programs that were a part of previous Windows versions up to Windows Vista were removed or changed. The following is a list of features that were present in Windows Vista and earlier versions but were removed in Windows 7.
TechRadar gave Windows 7 a rating of 5 out of 5 stars, concluding that "it combines the security and architectural improvements of Windows Vista with better performance than XP can deliver on today's hardware. No version of Windows is ever perfect, but Windows 7 really is the best release of Windows yet."
For Windows 95 (version 4.0), Windows 98 (4.10) and Windows 2000 (5.0), year of the release was included in the product title. After Windows 2000, Microsoft created the Windows Server family which continued the year-based style with a difference: For minor releases, Microsoft suffixed "R2" to the title, e.g., Windows Server 2008 R2 (version 6.1).
Windows CE 2.0: Jupiter; Birch: September 29, 1997 Windows CE 2.1 — July 1998 Windows CE 2.11 — October 1998 Windows CE 2.12 — 1999 Windows CE 3.0: Cedar; Galileo: 2000 Windows CE 4.0: Talisker: January 7, 2002 Windows CE 4.1: Jameson: July 30, 2002 Windows CE 4.2: McKendric: April 23, 2003 Windows CE 5.0: Macallan: July 9, 2004 Windows ...
The new driver model requires the graphics hardware to have Shader Model 2.0 support at least, since the fixed function pipeline is now translated to 2.0 shaders. However, according to Microsoft as of 2009, only about 1–2 percent of the hardware running Windows Vista used the XDDM, [10] with the rest already WDDM
PowerShell 2.0 Windows Server 2008 R2: Windows shell, Server Core: Classic (default), Aero (via "Desktop Experience") Internet Explorer 8 IIS 7.5 12 (via "Desktop Experience") cmd.exe, PowerShell 2.0 Windows Server 2012: Windows shell, Server Core: Metro: Internet Explorer 10: IIS 8 12 (via "Desktop Experience") cmd.exe, PowerShell 3.0 Windows ...
Service packs are usually numbered, and thus shortly referred to as SP1, SP2, SP3 etc. [1] They may also bring, besides bug fixes, [2] entirely new features, as is the case of SP2 of Windows XP (e.g. Windows Security Center), or SP3 and SP4 of the heavily database dependent Trainz 2009: World Builder Edition. [3]