Microsoft Windows 7

Both Media Center and Media Player boast new features, including innovative streaming

Windows 7: Features

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Rather than succumbing to feature creep - Microsoft's habit of throwing hordes of extra features at every new release of its products - Windows 7 is, if anything, suffering from feature shrink.

The Jump List feature in Windows 7 offers quick access to recent and commonly used

Windows 7: Ease of use

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Windows Vista probably had more opprobrium heaped on it than it truly deserved, but if there's one area where the OS merited every last anger-filled adjective, it was ease of use.

Windows 7 is far more touch-friendly than before; the onscreen keyboard is a good example of

Microsoft Windows 7

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It's hard to find fault with Windows 7: Microsoft's latest OS delivers on ease of use, performance and features - a far more impressive effort than Vista.