Rich Seymore
Account Technology Specialist
Education
Microsoft Corporation
Where to look!
Windows 7 site
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/
 Technet Windows 7 site
http://technet.microsoft.com/enus/windows/dd361745.aspx
 Windows 7 News
http://windows7news.com/
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New OS Features
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User Interface
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Libraries
Windows Explorer
Taskbar & Custom Switchers
Jumplists
Sticky Notes
Calculator
Troubleshooting Platform
 Problem Steps Recorder – PSR
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Federated Search
Device Control
Remote Access for all: DirectAccess
Data Protection: BitLocker & BitLocker-To-Go
Libraries
Rich pivots over files from multiple locations
Windows Explorer
Taskbar Custom Switchers
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Surface custom UI (e.g. TDI/MDI)
Custom thumbnails for each window
Appears in your program’s window list
Taskbar Thumbnail Toolbars
Remote-control for a window
Taskbar Visual Feedback
Taskbar JumpLists
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Mini Start Menu for your program
Surface key destinations and tasks
Sticky Notes
Calculator
Windows Scenic Ribbon
Application Menu
Quick Access Tab
Toolbar
Group (aka “Chunk”)
 In-box
Contextual Tab Set
Help
Contextual Tab
Dialog Launcher
with Windows 7, redistribution available to Vista
 Win32 API, COM-based (Wordpad, Paint, etc..)
 Feature parity (or close) with Microsoft Office 2007 Ribbon
Device Control
Local Printer default
Troubleshooting Platform
Intuitive
Federated Search
Consistent experience across providers
Make your own connector
If the search provider supports OpenSearch standards then you can use the following code snippet
to built your search connector for that provider:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:msose="http://schemas.microsoft.com/opensearchext/2009/">
<ShortName>Name of the Provider</ShortName>
<Description>Description of the provider</Description>
<Url type="application/rss+xml" template="Valid RSS link to search results”/>
<Url type="text/html" template="Valid RSS link to search results"/>
</OpenSearchDescription>
You can also make your own search provider for any website even if it doesn’t support OpenSearch standards
by using Live Search. Here is the piece of code which i used to make a Wikipedia search connector for
Federated Search in Windows 7.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:msose="http://schemas.microsoft.com/opensearchext/2009/"> <ShortName>Wikipedia</ShortName>
<Description>OpenSearch for Wikipedia via Windows 7 Search Federation.</Description>
<Url type="application/rss+xml"
template="http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q={searchTerms}+site%3Awikipedia.org&amp;count=50&a
mp;format=rss"/>
</OpenSearchDescription>
Simply copy/paste the above code in a notepad file and replace the text in Bold(Red) and save it as .osdx file
extension so that Windows 7 can recognize it as a valid Federated Search Connector file.
DVD Maker
MovieMaker
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