Rich SeymoreAccount Technology SpecialistEducationMicrosoft Corporation

Where to look! Windows 7 sitehttp://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/ Technet Windows 7 sitehttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/

dd361745.aspx Windows 7 Newshttp://windows7news.com/

New OS Features User Interface

Libraries Windows Explorer Taskbar & Custom Switchers Jumplists Sticky Notes Calculator

Troubleshooting Platform Problem Steps Recorder – PSR

Federated Search Device Control Remote Access for all: DirectAccess Data Protection: BitLocker & BitLocker-To-Go

Rich pivots over files from multiple locationsLibraries

Rich Metadata

Cleaner navigation

Easy Previews

Powerful Instant Search

Arrangement Views

Federated Search

Libraries

Windows Explorer

Surface custom UI (e.g. TDI/MDI) Custom thumbnails for each window Appears in your program’s window list

Taskbar Custom Switchers

Remote-control for a window

Taskbar Thumbnail Toolbars

Taskbar indicates progress

(Progress Bar)

Notifications appear over program icon

(Overlay Icons)

Taskbar Visual Feedback

Mini Start Menu for your program Surface key destinations and tasks

Taskbar JumpLists

Sticky Notes

Calculator

Windows Scenic Ribbon

In-box with Windows 7, redistribution available to Vista Win32 API, COM-based (Wordpad, Paint, etc..) Feature parity (or close) with Microsoft Office 2007 Ribbon

Application Menu

Quick Access Toolbar

Tab Contextual Tab Set

Contextual Tab

Help

Group (aka “Chunk”) Dialog Launcher

Device ControlLocal Printer default

Troubleshooting PlatformIntuitive

Consistent experience across providersFederated Search

Make your own connectorIf 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:ms-ose="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:ms-ose="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&amp;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.

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