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WINDOWS 7.
A release candidate of Windows 7, the next major release of the world's most popular operating system, goes public in trial form in the next week.
Microsoft is hoping it can avoid the negative press that surrounded the launch of Vista, the last major Windows release, almost three years ago. Windows 7 has been designed to be compatible with Vista so users do not have to invest in new hardware.
A commercial release of Windows 7 is expected in the next nine months, but a test version of Windows 7 will be available to developers from Thursday, while the public can try it out from 5 May.
ohn Curran, Microsoft UK's director, Windows Client Group, admitted that "shortfalls" in the Vista release had caused problems for some users.
"There were challenges on hardware and application compatibility with Vista in the first couple of months - and that has left a little bit of an aftertaste for a segment of people."
When Vista was launched many users expressed frustration that the operating system did not work with all types of existing hardware and peripherals, or programs used commonly on PCs, and a Vista compatibility programme for hardware proved to be confusing and, in some cases, somewhat misleading.
Mr Curran said Microsoft had "learned lessons" and had been working with partner developers to ensure the same mistakes would not be repeated. Windows 7 will also have "comparable system requirements" to Vista, which should mean that if your PC is capable of running Vista it will also run the new version.
Mr Curran said Vista had proved to be a success for Microsoft, despite the negative press that surrounds the operating system. "Vista is the fastest selling operating system of all time and, in percentage terms, enterprise moved to Vista faster than it did to XP [an earlier version of Windows]," he said.
He said satisfaction surveys for Vista showed 90% of people were either satisfied or very satisfied and 85-90% would recommend it to a friend.
Microsoft embarked on a major advertising and marketing mission to improve the image of Vista after the muted reaction around its "The Wow starts now" campaign.
While Vista was released five months after the release candidate was made available, Mr Curran said Windows 7 would only be released when it is ready. "Obviously in these times everybody is keeping an eye on the bottom line, but we are certainly taking a longer-term perspective here and always have done with Windows franchise.
"The timeline stated all along is that we are targeting Windows 7 within three years of the launch of Vista and that would be the end of January 2010. We feel quite confident we are on trajectory that will deliver on that promise. But the exact timing will be based on quality."
Windows 7 promises a major usability improvement on Vista, and a simplification of security measures which caused frustration for many users. Mr Curran said Windows 7 would build on the security improvements in Vista, which have seen a fall in the number of malware attacks and critical vulnerabilities identified.
Many beta testers of Windows 7 have reported that it is faster than Vista, especially in terms of start-up and shutdown sequence of the computer. With regard to this, Mr Curran reported that the Microsoft Windows team had been poring over every aspect of the operating system to make improvements.
"We were able to shave 400 milliseconds off the shutdown time by slightly trimming the WAV file shutdown music. It's indicative of really the level and detail and scrutiny on Windows 7."
A version of Windows 7 will also be available for netbooks, but with some caveats, whilst the Windows 7 Starter Edition will have limitations on how many applications can be used concurrently on a machine in order to preserve performance, or at least that’s the official line. Wanting you to pay more to upgrade to full Windows 7 doesn’t come in to it, of course!
As the new START TREK is about to be released into the movies here, let’s look at ten innovations inspired by Star Trek
In the early years of the last century, a new generation of scientists was inspired by the mysteries of the world around them. Einstein, Bohr and others spent the rest of their lives engaged in a debate about the nature of the atom.
In the latter part of the 20th century, budding scientists had it far easier. They had Star Trek for inspiration. From warp fields to flat-screen TVs, Star Trek boldly took its viewers where no programme had taken us before. Among those fans, of course, were the inventors, scientists and all-round boffins of today. of those “far-fetched” ideas that we now take for granted.
1  The flip-top mobile phone
For a generation that grew up flicking imaginary communicators and saying “Beam me up, Scotty”, the now near-ubiquitous flip-top mobile phone was the answer to our prayers.
2 The sound of automatic doors
The first electrically operated sliding automatic doors were fitted in Texas in 1960. They ran on noisy rubber wheels. Fifty years later, all of the world’s sliding doors open with a swooooosh. Where do you suppose that idea came from?
3. Flat-screen TVs, touch-screen computers, video-conferencing         
We laughed when we saw them. Television sets could never be that small, computers could never be that responsive. In 2009, we’re all fighting over the latest half-inch thick Sony and Samsung LCDs, then wondering how we plug our iPhones into them. Business types, meanwhile, are conducting transglobal negotiations in much the same manner as Kirk did with the Klingons.
4. The first space shuttle
Nasa called its first space shuttle the Enterprise, following a letter-writing campaign by fans in 1976. The ship was used in test flights but was never truly spaceworthy.
5. The transporter beam
Although the original owes its existence to the show’s minuscule budget, that hasn’t stopped real scientists from trying to make one. In 2007, a new record was set for quantum teleportation, when data was beamed 89 miles from the island of La Palma to Tenerife.
6. The tricorder
Dr McCoy’s original all-in-one medical diagnostic tool was designed by one of the unsung heroes of Star Trek, Wah Ming Chang, who also came up with the look for the Communicator. Although no such thing yet exists, we take heart from the fact that every single PDA on the planet looks like a Tricorder, and claims that PDAs can now be made to work as full-on medical scanners.
7. The Hypospray
You try and tell me that there’s no Star Trek influence in the final design of jet injectors, the special hypodermics used for mass immunisation programmes. Go on, try.
8. Warp drive
On the face of it, this is one of Star Trek’s most unlikely technologies. However, it does have roots in quantum physics, in which components of an atom do hop from place to place without, seemingly, touching a point in between (see the excellent book Quantum by Manjit Kumar for details).
9. The phaser
The US military do have a big laser gun!
10. The cloaking device
According to a 2007 report Purdue University engineers have created something that looks like a spiky hairbrush that has the ability to “bend” light around any object being cloaked. We are told to expect an invisible tank by 2012. Above is how we imagine it will look in the dark.
And well, here’s an extra – didn’t all the Star Trek data capsules look just like flash drives?
If you have any queries about this week’s topics, call the office on 038 360 400 or email me at steve@liberty-computers.com. The office is open 9:15 to 5:45 daily (5pm Saturday, closed Sundays). Don’t forget to listen to the live “Techy Titbits” spot on Yesterday radio 96FM every Thursday morning with DJ Johnny Diamond, Marc the groupie, Danny the station manager and myself, so take care till next week!

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