Windows 7 surpasses Vista, Closes In on Mac

There’s a new fresh sign that Windows 7 is off to a good start: Web surfers have begun moving to the operating system much more quickly than its troubled predecessor, Windows Vista.. A new research report says Windows 7 on eclipsed 4% of all devices visiting Web sites that day, a little over two weeks after the commercial launch of the product. It took Windows Vista, in comparison, about seven months to pass 4% after it was introduced to businesses in November 2006, according to the report from Net Applications, a firm that keeps tracks of online usage.
The report doesn’t measure native sales market share for computers, counting instead the various brands of operating systems and other software used by people visiting a network of about 40,000 Web sites around the globe.The figures also don’t show whether a Web-site visitor actually paid for a copy of Windows 7, a significant consideration when bootlegged copies of Windows are selling for around $3 in markets in China. Still, coupled with download. While the application from Amazon.com is given completely free of charge, the content crafted to work with “Kindle for PC” is not. PC users that will download and install the app from Kindle books. From a source from Amazon.com, there are in excess of 360,000 books given via the U.S. Kindle Store, with prices $9.99 or less.

Kindle for PC is the right companion application for customers who possess a Kindle or Kindle DX . Kindle for PC is also a remarkable way for people around the world to avail a huge selection from the Kindle Store and read the most popular books of recent times even if they do not have a Kindle. Although Microsoft “Kindle for PC” is custom-made for Windows 7, the application is also crafted to play nice with Windows Vista and Windows XP. But “Kindle for PC” on top of Windows 7 has the ability to enjoy the multitouch capabilities, particularly of the operating system, and actually skim through the pages using their bare hands.

In another development, we will have a closer look at the Windows Aero. The different versions of Windows, since Windows 1.0 until the brand new Windows 7 has features such as the taskbar and windows, that exist in all of them and are in a way the core of Windows. Apart from the propensity to improve with the release of every new version, aesthetically they look brilliant. Windows Aero is the graphical user interface (GUI) which comes by default with Windows Vista and Windows 7. It is the abbreviation for :Authentic, Energetic, Reflective and Open
However, in Windows 7 Microsoft has introduced three new features to Windows Aero: these include Aero Peek, Aero Snap and Aero Shake. With the added addition to making Windows look more appealing, these features make managing open windows simpler and more fun. ”Aero Flip” comes with both Windows Vista and 7. One will need to have Aero enabled in order to benefit from these features though.