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Introduction: Windows 7 (formerly codenamed Blackcomb and Vienna ) is the next release of Microsoft Windows , an operating system produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers , including home and business desktops , laptops , Tablet PCs , netbooks and media center PCs. Microsoft stated in 2007 they were planning Windows 7 development for a three-year time frame starting after the release of its predecessor, Windows Vista . Microsoft has stated that the final release date would be determined by product quality. Unlike its predecessor, Windows 7 is intended to be an incremental upgrade to Vista, with the goal of being fully compatible with device drivers, applications, and hardware which Windows Vista is already compatible with. Presentations given by the company in 2008 have focused on multi-touch support, a redesigned Windows Shell with a new taskbar , a home networking system called HomeGroup, and performance improvements. Some applications that have been included with...

BASIC = B egineers A ll S ymbolic I nstruction C ode Microsoft BASIC was the foundation product of the Microsoft company. It first appeared in 1975 as Altair BASIC , which was the first BASIC (and indeed the first high level programming language) available for the MITS Altair 8800 hobbyist microcomputer . The Altair BASIC interpreter was developed by Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates with help from Monte Davidoff , using a self made Intel 8080 software simulator running on a PDP-10 minicomputer . The dialect of BASIC was similar to Digital Equipment Corporation interpreters, especially in string operations, which varied between BASIC implementations. BASIC used dynamically allocated strings which stored their size, a feature not common in C or C++ until the Standard Template Library of the 1990s. Many of these string operations remain today in the .NET Framework . Early BASIC only supported single letter and digit names, but Microsoft BASIC supported long variable na...