Microsoft Windows 7 - It's Origin by Rondle Tomsen

Windows 7 is the latest release of Microsoft Windows, a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, netbooks, tablet PCs, and media middle PCs.
Windows 7 was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and reached general retail availability on October 22, 2009, less than years after the release of its predecessor, Windows Vista. Windows 7's server counterpart, Windows Server 2008 R2, was released simultaneously.
Unlike its predecessor, Windows Vista, which introduced a immense number of new features, Windows 7 was supposed to be a more focused, incremental upgrade to the Windows line, with the objective of being compatible with applications and hardware which Windows Vista was not at the time.
Presentations given by Microsoft in 2008 focused on multi-touch support, a redesigned Windows shell with a brand spanking new taskbar, known as the Superbar, a home networking process called HomeGroup, and performance improvements. Some standard applications that have been included with prior releases of Microsoft Windows, including Windows Calendar, Windows Mail, Windows Film Maker, and Windows Picture Gallery, are not included in Windows 7; most are in lieu offered separately at no charge as part of the Windows Live Necessities suite.
Originally, a version of Windows codenamed Blackcomb was planned as the successor to Windows XP (codename Whistler) and Windows Server 2003. Major features were planned for Blackcomb, including an emphasis on searching and querying information and an advanced storage process named WinFS to enable such scenarios. However, an interim, minor release, codenamed "Longhorn," was announced for 2003, delaying the development of Blackcomb.
By the middle of 2003, however, Longhorn had acquired some of the features originally intended for Blackcomb. After major viruses exploited flaws in Windows operating systems within a short time period in 2003, Microsoft changed its development priorities, putting some of Longhorn's major development work on hold while developing new service packs for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
Development of Longhorn (Windows Vista) was also restarted, and thus delayed, in August 2004. a lot of features were cut from Longhorn.
Blackcomb was renamed Vienna in early 2006 and again Windows 7 in 2007. In 2008, it was announced that Windows 7 would even be the official name of the operating process.
There has been some confusion over naming the product Windows 7, while versioning it as 6.1 to indicate its similar build to Vista and increase compatibility with applications that only check major version numbers, similar to Windows 2000 and Windows XP both having two.x version numbers.
The first outside release to select Microsoft partners came in January 2008 with Milestone one, build 6519. At PDC 2008, Microsoft demonstrated Windows 7 with its reworked taskbar. Copies of Windows 7 build 6801 were distributed at the finish of the conference; however, the demonstrated taskbar was disabled in this build.
On December 27, 2008, the Windows 7 Beta was leaked onto the Net by BitTorrent. According to a performance check by ZDNet, Windows 7 Beta beat both Windows XP and Vista in several key areas; including boot and shutdown time and working with files, such as loading documents. Other areas did not beat XP; including PC Pro benchmarks for typical office activities and video editing, which stay identical to Vista and slower than XP.
On January 7, 2009, the 64-bit version of the Windows 7 Beta (build 7000) was leaked onto the net, with some torrents being infected with a trojan. At CES 2009, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the Windows 7 Beta, build 7000, had been made available for download to MSDN and TechNet subscribers in the format of an ISO picture.
The Beta was to be publicly released January 9, 2009, and Microsoft initially planned for the download to be made available to two.5 million people on this date. However, access to the downloads was delayed because of high traffic.
The download limit was also extended, initially until January 24, then again to February ten. Individuals who did not complete downloading the beta had additional days to complete the download. After February 12, unfinished downloads became unable to complete. Users could still get product keys from Microsoft to activate their copies of Windows 7 Beta, which expired on August one, 2009.
The release candidate, build 7100, became available for MSDN and TechNet subscribers and Connect Program participants on April 30, 2009. On May two, 2009 it became available to the general public, although it had also been leaked onto the Net by BitTorrent.
The release candidate was available in languages and expired on June one, 2010, with shutdowns every hours beginning March one, 2010. Microsoft said that Windows 7 would be released to the general public on October 22, 2009. Microsoft released Windows 7 to MSDN and Technet subscribers on August 6, 2009, at ten:00 a.m. PDT.
Microsoft announced that Windows 7, along with Windows Server 2008 R2, was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009. Windows 7 RTM is build 7600.16385, which was compiled on July 13, 2009, and was declared the final RTM build after passing all Microsoft's tests internally.