Features new to Windows 7: Difference between revisions

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* For developers, Windows 7 includes a new networking API with support for building [[SOAP (protocol)|SOAP]]-based web services in [[machine code|native code]] (as opposed to .NET-based [[Windows Communication Foundation|WCF]] web services),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC01/|title=Windows 7: Web Services in Native Code|publisher=PDC 2008|access-date=26 September 2008|archive-date=2 November 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081102130520/http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC01/|url-status=live}}</ref> new features to shorten application install times, reduced UAC prompts, simplified development of installation packages,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC42/|title=Windows 7: Deploying Your Application with Windows Installer (MSI) and ClickOnce|publisher=PDC 2008|access-date=26 September 2008|archive-date=9 October 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081009030313/http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC42/|url-status=live}}</ref> and improved globalization support through a new Extended Linguistic Services API.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC52/|title=Windows 7: Writing World-Ready Applications|publisher=PDC 2008|access-date=26 September 2008|archive-date=9 October 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081009030340/http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC52/|url-status=live}}</ref>

* If an application crashes twice in a row, Windows 7 will automatically attempt to apply a [[Shim (computing)|shim]]. If an application fails to install a similar self-correcting fix, a tool that asks some questions about the application launches.<ref>[http://www.tgdaily.com/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=39940 Application Self-Healing] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081119064721/http://www.tgdaily.com/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=39940 |date=2008-11-19 }} accessed on Jan 30 2009</ref>

* Windows 7 includes an optional [[Tagged Image File Format|TIFF]] [[IFilter]] that enables indexing of TIFF documents by reading them with [[optical character recognition]] (OCR), thus making their text content searchable. TIFF iFilter supports Adobe TIFF Revision 6.0 specifications and four compression schemes: [[Lempel–Ziv–Welch|LZW]], [[JPEG]], [[CCITT Group IV4 compression|CCITT v4]], CCITT v6<ref>{{cite web|title=Windows TIFF IFilter Installation and Operations Guide|url=https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd755985%28v=ws.10%29.aspx|work=[[Microsof TechNet|TechNet]]|publisher=Microsoft|access-date=24 November 2013|date=30 April 2009|archive-date=2 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202223707/http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd755985%28v=ws.10%29.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref>

* The [[Win32 console|Windows Console]] now adheres to the current Windows theme, instead of showing controls from the Windows Classic theme.

* Games Internet [[Spades (card game)|Spades]], Internet [[Backgammon]] and Internet [[Checkers]], which were removed from Windows Vista, were restored in Windows 7.

* Users can disable many more Windows components than was possible in Windows Vista. The new components which can now be disabled include: ''Handwriting Recognition'', ''Internet Explorer'', ''Windows DVD Maker'', ''Windows Fax and Scan'', ''Windows Gadget Platform'' ''Windows Media Center'', ''Windows Media Player'', ''[[Windows Search]]'', and the ''XPS Viewer'' (with its services).<ref name="Engineering Windows 7">{{cite web|url=http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/03/06/beta-to-rc-changes-turning-windows-features-on-or-off.aspx|title=Beta to RC Changes – Turning Windows Features On or Off|access-date=2009-03-27|archive-date=2010-05-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100507012154/http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/03/06/beta-to-rc-changes-turning-windows-features-on-or-off.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref>