Overview of the features newly introduced in the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system
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Some of the new features included in Windows 7 are advancements in touch, speech[1] and handwriting recognition, support for virtual hard disks, support for additional file formats, improved performance on multi-core processors,[2] improved boot performance, and kernel improvements.
^Brown, Eric (January 29, 2009). "What's new in Windows Speech Recognition?". MSDN Blogs. Microsoft. Archived from the original on July 11, 2018. Retrieved April 29, 2019.
^Foley Jo, Mary (September 30, 2008). "Windows 7 to get parallel-processing tweaks". ZDNet. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on March 2, 2016. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
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