Windows 7 Themes

As previously reported, Windows 7 will have a feature called WARP 10 (Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform) that will allow you to boot your PC without a graphic card.

Developer Stardock (Galactic Civilizations II, WindowBlinds 6) is obviously very pleased with Windows 7.
Stardock only managed to sell so many “games” because they’re all running on almost every PC. WARP10 means that Stardock can make games that look a lot better without having to worry that it won’t run on every PC.  That’s why CEO Brad Wardell urged everyone to install Windows 7. Obviously, they will also sell a lot more games if their games look better. As of right now, they can’t require DirectX9/10 support, because many people still run XP.

Stardock has recently (4/14/2009) released their game “Demigod”. It’s a tactical strategy game that includes rpg elements:

Demigod, one of the games developed by Stardock

You can download DemiGod and all other products of Stardock through their own digital publishing platform, which you can download for free here:

Stardock's digital publishing platform ImpulseDriven

Stardock’s CEO hasn’t made any statement regarding WindowsBlinds yet. Windows 7 has a completely new GUI, so Windows Blinds does not support Windows 7.

Windows 7 will significantly change the taskbar. Details + Video inside.

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In Windows 7 you will no longer need a graphic card to render any 3D-application, hence you can boot your system without any graphic card. The CPU will do all the work! The new technology that makes all this possible is called “Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform” 10.
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Yay, this might be good news for Vista-users! DX11 will not only be delievered with Windows7, but will also come for Vista (Source). Fortunately Windows7 will be fully backwards-compatible to Vista and will make upgrading Vista very easy. Let’s take a closer look on DX11!
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Touchscreen-panning will be a new feature of Windows 7,  it allows you to move objects on a desktop with your own fingers. Touchscreens are quite common, especially since the IPod, but to see it on a Windows PC is quite impressive.
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Windows 7.0 (Kernel Version 6.1) is not out yet, but a beta will arrive later this year.

What can we expect of Windows 7?

- Performance improvements

- User-friendly system

- Automatic synchrpnization between PC’s in a network

- Ribbon interface

- Improved Paint, Wordpad

- Backwards-compatible to Vista

- Improved Network Connection Tools

- New Gadgets

- Enhanced Explorer

- Lightweight WMP

- Enhanced Taskbar

- Native support for Virtual Drives

- Improved Boot performance

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The list goes on and on, but when can we expect it? When it’s done! Hopefully Microsoft will stick to their plans and not release it before it meet’s a certain quality standard.