Windows 7 Features Not Found In Previous Versions [closed]

Windows 7 Features Not Found In Previous Versions [closed] What are some things you can in Windows 7 that you couldn't do in previous versions of Windows? Don't limit your answers to a single feature, I want to learn as much as possible.
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Guest [Entry]

"Some other great additions:

Math input panel quite simply because it can read my handwriting better than humans.

Better Calculator with history of recent calculations and a myriad of new advanced functions for statistics and programming. Also worksheets for day-to-day calculations such as fuel economy, date calculations, unit conversions.

Ribbon Interface in the old accessories such as WordPad, Paint etc. These incorporate the new UI introduced by Office 07 and hide a few new additional features.

Whole screen Magnifier Pressing Windows + (Plus) magnifies the entire screen. (Awesome if you want to monitor downloads from a far). Also has other view options.

Libraries are a new folder system which contain folders from various locations. For example Music library can contain folders from e:\music, c:\users\me\music, d:\downloads\music, and deal with all the files together.

Homegroups vastly simplifies sharing files on a home network.

Searching is looks way more cleaner with highlights and the new 'Content' view.

Federated Search allows for custom search providers (in example below YouTube) from Explorer. This is especially useful for desktop programs which have searchable content like OneNote, Stickies etc.

However by far the best feature would have to be XP Mode!

XP Mode allows you to install and run programs in a virtual machine running XP. This is awesome if you have programs that only work on XP. What's more it allows for seamless integration as you can see below, XP's IE6 running besides Firefox on 7 on the same machine."

Guest [Entry]

"Drag window against the left or right edge to fill half the screen, top edge to maximize.

Grab a maximized titlebar and pull to restore.

Shake the titlebar to minimize everybody else."

Guest [Entry]

My favorite: Burn an ISO CD/DVD.

Guest [Entry]

Wikipedia has a fairly comprehensive list of new features in Windows 7. I like that it has a lot more video codecs built in so I can watch my collection of video files without having to install anything extra. Jump lists are pretty useful as well.

Guest [Entry]

The rearranging taskbar buttons is nice, I only recently learn you can do the same thing with tray icons! No more going into the stupid customize dialog to get show/hide a tray icon.