Back in March 2006, while evaluating the Microsoft Windows Vista February CTP (Community Technology Preview), build 5380, I wrote an article titled “Vista’s Recycled Applets Should Have Been Polished,” in which I admonished Microsoft for not putting any effort into improving or adding new features to the standard Windows applets: Notepad, WordPad, Paint, and Calculator.
While those applets never changed between the Windows Vista CTP and the RTM (Release to Manufacturing) versions, I was really happy to find that in the Beta 2 version of Windows 7, three of the four standard Windows applets have indeed been endowed with some new features and updated user-interface components.
In this issue of the Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7 Report, I’ll show you what’s new in these applets.
Be ready for new and improved applets in Windows 7
