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'''Windows 7''' (previously known as "Vienna" and before that, "Blackcomb") is the name for the version of [[Microsoft|Microsoft's]] [[Windows (operating system)|Windows]] [[operating system]] preceding [[Windows 8]], originally announced in February 2000, but was subject to major delays such as [[Windows XP|Windows XP SP2]] and [[Vista (operating system)|Windows Vista]] (which was also delayed by XP SP2). "Seven" was released on October 22, 2009. Work on Windows 7 began right after Windows Vista was released.
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'''Windows 7''' (previously known as "Vienna" and before that, "Blackcomb") is the name for the version of [[Microsoft|Microsoft's]] [[Windows (operating system)|Windows]] [[operating system]] preceding [[Windows 8]], which was originally announced in February 2000, but was subject to major delays like [[Windows XP]] and [[Vista (operating system)|Windows Vista]] (which was also delayed by XP SP2). "Seven" was released on October 22, 2009. Work on Windows 7 began right after Windows Vista was released. Some early details of a few core operating system features surfaced at developer conferences such as WHEC in 2006.
"Mainstream" support of Windows 7 ended on January 13, 2015, and extended support ended on January 14, 2020.<ref>https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet</ref> However, many companies and individuals resisted updating to [[Windows 10]], so Microsoft added a "Extended Security Updates" option, which companies using volume licensing can pay for on a yearly basis. This enables them to continue having access to security updates.<ref>https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4527878/faq-about-extended-security-updates-for-windows-7</ref>
== History & Development ==
== History & Development ==
The codename "Windows Blackcomb" was first assigned to Windows NT 6.0, an operating system that was planned to follow [[Windows XP]]. Blackcomb was supposed to be the successor to both Windows XP (Windows NT 5.1) and Windows Server 2003 (Windows NT 5.2). In late 2001 "Blackcomb" was said to be scheduled for release in 2005 then in August it was announced that a minor intermediate release, codenamed Windows "Longhorn", would release in 2002 to update the Windows NT 5.x line. In the years that followed "Longhorn" was transformed to include many features previously promised for "Blackcomb" and became Windows NT 6, and was given a name, [[Windows Vista]]. The codename "Blackcomb" was eventually discarded, however the ideas and features behind "Blackcomb" that were not included in Windows Vista got a new name codename Windows "Vienna". Windows Vista's successor (Windows 7) was released in late 2009.
The codename "Windows Blackcomb" was first assigned to Windows NT 6.0, an operating system that was planned to follow [[Windows XP]]. Blackcomb was supposed to be the successor to both Windows XP (Windows NT 5.1) and Windows Server 2003 (Windows NT 5.2). In late 2001 "Blackcomb" was said to be scheduled for release in 2005 then in August it was announced that a minor intermediate release, codenamed Windows "Longhorn", would release in 2002 to update the Windows NT 5.x line. In the years that followed "Longhorn" was transformed to include many features previously promised for "Blackcomb" and became Windows NT 6, and was given a name, [[Windows Vista]]. The codename "Blackcomb" was eventually discarded, however the ideas and features behind "Blackcomb" that were not included in Windows Vista got a new name codename Windows "Vienna". Windows Vista's successor (Windows 7) was released in late 2009.
== Focus ==
== Focus ==
Microsoft released Windows 7 at the end of 2009.
Microsoft released Windows 7 at the end of 2009.
Microsoft originally had planned for Vista to include a number of big changes to Windows, including a new file system ([[WinFS]]) and a completely new user interface, but after Windows XP was hit by huge worm outbreaks in 2003, Microsoft moved almost all of its entire engineering team to locking down Windows with the XP SP2 release.
Microsoft originally had planned for Vista to include a number of big changes to Windows, including a new file system ([[WinFS]]) and a completely new user interface, but after Windows XP was hit by huge [[Worm (malware)|worm]] outbreaks in 2003, Microsoft moved almost all of its entire engineering team to locking down Windows with the XP SP2 release.
"We put Longhorn on the back burner for awhile," Fathi said. "Then when we came back to it, we realized that there were incremental things that we wanted to do, and significant improvements that we wanted to make in Vista that we couldn't deliver in one release."
"We put Longhorn on the back burner for awhile," Fathi said. "Then when we came back to it, we realized that there were incremental things that we wanted to do, and significant improvements that we wanted to make in Vista that we couldn't deliver in one release."
== Features ==
== Features ==
Windows 7 includes many new features, such as support for touch screen interfaces<ref name="cnet">https://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/10/22/windows.seven/index.html</ref> which lets users draw on the computer screen like a piece of paper.<ref>https://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/tabletpc/russel_03january20.mspx</ref> Unlike in previous operating systems, Microsoft decided on many of these new features in conjunction with major computer manufacturers.<ref name="cnet" /> Microsoft also redesigned the user interface in many applications, including Paint and Wordpad, which now sport the ribbon interface that Microsoft first introduced in several Office 2007 applications.
== Undocumented features ==
Software developers are given a shortcut to various internal settings, much like control panel. This set of tools was named "GodMode" by bloggers, although this was not something Microsoft used internally to refer to this settings folders. Apparently, it has been included since Windows Vista but never discussed by Microsoft until bloggers stumbled upon it.<ref>[http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10426627-56.html Windows 7 has lots of 'GodModes' (exclusive), CNET.com, January 6, 2010]</ref> This did not circumvent any account or other security limitations, so it was not considered by Microsoft a to be a security problem.<br />
To access this, a user needed only to create a new folder named <code>God Mode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}</code>, where "God Mode" is the folder's name, although this name can be anything (such as "Settings," although this sounds less grandiose). The period and reference after the folder name link it to the system settings list.
==See also==
==See also==
*[[Windows XP]]
*[[Windows XP]]
*[[Windows Vista]]
*[[Windows Vista]]
*[[Windows 8]]
*[[Windows 8]]
*[[Windows 10]]
== References ==
== References ==
==External links==
==External links==
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