Windows 7

Windows 7 is the most recent version of Microsoft Windows, a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on Personal Computers, including home and desktops, laptops, notebooks, tablet PCs and media center PCs. Windows 7 was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and retail availability on Oct 22, 2009, less than three years after the release of Windows Vista. Windows 7 server counterpart, Windows server 2008 R2, was released at the same time.

Windows 7 is intended to be more focused, incremental upgrade to the Windows line with fully compatible with applications and hardware with which Windows Vista is already compatible.

Bill Gates, in an interview suggested that this version of Windows would "be nore user-centric". Gates later said that Windows 7 would also focus on performance improvements.

Windows 7 is available in six different editions, but only Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate editions are available for retail sale in most countries. The other editions are used at other markets and enterprise use.

Minimum Hardware Requirements for Windows 7

Architecture 32-bit 64-bit

Processor 1GHz 1GHz

Memory (RAM) 1GB of RAM 2GB of RAM

Graphic Card DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM driver model 1.0 (for Aero)

HDD free space 16GB 20GB

Optical Drive DVD Drive (only to install from CD/DVD Media)