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• A vast set of instant driver compatibility for all sorts of peripherals available
• Taking FULL advantage of Multi core processors and 64 bit mode
  
• Multi-touch screen and tablet interface with surprisingly accurate  character recognition and "WOW !" factor (not to be confused with WofW )
  
• More direct access to files, programs and raw data – meaning there are less mouse clicks to get to what you want,  Once I got used to the User interface which now includes libraries (which MAC has had for years and was in the early versions of UNIX before that) I found that, now,  almost nothing requires any more than 2 steps (clicks) to reach
• A very impressive set of self diagnostics , both understandable,and available which gets information specifically for your particular problem locally and remotely.
  
• Veritably instant networking setup
• The virtual XP function which guarantees that programs, applications, and ,so far, in my limited experience with games,  things that ran on XP will run under Win 7
• A very powerful and fast system search function
• Very tight and tunable security. The security is enhanced by the free Microsoft anti viral and malware program – no more annoying – “your protection will expire in dd/mm renew now” which is displayed every few hours, starting 3 months before the actual expiration date.  It really annoys me  when I think about how many people don’t realize they still have full virus protection running and fully functioning , but go ahead and renew based on the popup !  They inadvertently wind up repaying for the remaining three months-- double cost for the consumer and double income for the company!  (O.K. so maybe I exaggerate a little, but the warnings do start way before they should and I'm sure it's no accident)
• On the business or professional level, the integration with Windows Server 2008/2010 at the low,kernel level is magnificent! The “Active Directory” functionality finally lives up to the reputation of its forbearer.    There was an industry inside joke when naming the OS Windows NT (WNT).  WNT was 1 alphabet letter off from VMS[v+1=W m+1=N s+1=T].   Back at that time DEC , Digital Electronics Corporation -(remember them ? Once a leader in the industry --PDP 11, RMS, RSX , VAX ,VT100 ???-- bought up and shut down by Compaq which was in turn bought by HP Killing one of the legendary pioneers)  had one of the hottest OSs around at the time, called VAX/VMS. (click the link to find out more about VMS) Microsoft literally “stole” one of the Chief Computer Science Architects of VMS from DEC. All of the sudden a great leap forward from Windows 3.x to a completely new architecture WNT magically occurred,-for industry standards it was almost overnight.  To a lot of folks I knew and worked with agreed that design and "phylosophy" behind the design sure looked a lot like VMS----   I wonder how that happened ???? thus was born Windows "New Technology"