One of the reasons Mac users love their products is because they are simple, they are elegant and easy to use. It is no surprise that there are many tips and tricks on the web to bring some of that to Windows users. A new app has been uploaded to deviantART and is aiming to bring one of those key features to Windows 7.
You're a Windows 7 user, right? You like that nice user interface, complete with all that blue glass and with all those, well, windows. More importantly, you like it because it isn't Vista, mainly. Lets take that liking to a whole new level shall we?
The Developer Preview build of Windows 8 was released was just yesterday and we’ve come across quite a few people who actually want to have some of Windows 7’s features on Windows 8. One such feature is the classic Start Menu, which is quite dumbed down in Redmond’s new OS. We’ve got hold of an app which solves this issue, you can read about it after the jump!
As our readers will know, Windows 8 Developer Preview was released yesterday. This version of Windows 8, as suggested by the name, is meant for developers who wish to develop Windows 8 apps in the future. It is not the complete version of the OS that will be released sometime in 2012.
Windows Live SkyDrive is Microsoft’s service that lets you store any file on a virtual online folder that can be as large as 25GB, all completely free of charge, and then access it from anywhere from any browser, PC or Mac. While Microsoft’s implementation works fine, there isn’t a clear way to get to those files from Windows 7 Explorer, but it is possible.
If you’ve been in touch with what’s been happening in the world of technology, you’re probably aware of Windows 8, the next version of Windows, currently in early development stages. Among many of the new features is a new tile-based look, and if you want to get some aspects of that interface today on your computer running Windows 7, then you can do so using third-party tools.
While primary attention is still being given to desktop apps, we are slowly and steadily seeing focus shift to powerful web apps thanks to the advancement of web browsers and technologies like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. This is evidenced by OS-level projects like Chrome OS and Joli OS as well as products like Mozilla Prism or the built-in feature on Internet Explorer 9 & Google Chrome which allows users to integrate web applications with the desktop.
Are you a Windows 7 user aching for some roaring action on your PC? Well, installing OS X Lion on a non-Mac machine (i.e. a “PC”) takes a lot of work. But you can try out some of Lion’s features on Windows 7 for example: “Full Screen” on Windows can be replicated by simply maximizing a window/pressing F11. Quite innovative, no?
Rovio Mobile’s super popular Angry Birds series of games, which are available on just about every platform from Windows to the Nokia’s defunct Maemo OS, has received its own theme for Windows 7.
According to Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer, the Redmond company has sold 400 million Windows 7 licenses since the product was first released in October 2009, which is equal to about 7 copies a second being sold, ironically.
