The Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos.  This kit is designed to help you learn how to build applications that shine on Windows 7 by utilizing it's key features 

• Taskbar
• Libraries
• Multi Touch
• Sensors and Location
• Ribbon
• Trigger Start Services,
• Instrumentation and ETW
• Application Compatability

Ink Input and Tablet PC

A good post on the Engineering Windows blog about new advances in pen and touch computing with Windows 7.

The Tablet PC Input Panel, sometimes called the TIP has a new writing pad that you'll find easier to manage then the previous Vista version.

Everyone who's used a Tablet PC knows corrections are the most tedious aspect of the User eXperience, but the new Smart Corrections feature could make this less of a hassle.

Entering URLs looks like it will now be a snap and we all love linking, especially to blogs about innovation.

Math recognition is the most intriguing new design addition with the implication that it may give mathematicians a productivity boost.

Engineering Windows 7

The first issue to untangle is about the difference between malware making it onto a PC and being run, versus what it can do once it is running. There has been no report of a way for malware to make it onto a PC without consent. All of the feedback so far concerns the behavior of UAC once malware has found its way onto the PC and is running

The Microsoft Security Response Center monitors the ecosystem for security threats and manages the response to any threat or vulnerability related to Microsoft products.

Internet Explorer 8 has also introduced many new features to thwart malware distribution.

Much of the recent feedback has failed to take into account the ways that Windows 7 has improved the ability to stop malware before it's installed or running on your PC.

I installed the Windows 7 beta on a Lenovo IdeaPad S10 from a thumb drive and was amazed that it took under 20 minutes and all the drivers were found after an update on the Web.

 The only glitch occurred at the first and second reboot, the install could not locate the boot file so I had to lift it in place by going into Safe Mode where it quickly found the file.         Music by Monk

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