Wireless setup
With Windows 7, setting up wireless connections is easier with consistent, one-click connections to available networks, whether those networks are based on Wi-Fi, mobile broadband, dial-up, or corporate VPN.

HomeGroup
Connect Windows 7 PCs on a home network in just four clicks and easily get to the photos, music, and files on each one–even share printers–with HomeGroup.

Easy to browse the web

Internet Explorer 8
Visual search helps you quickly find the information you want by adding visual cues and previews to search results from top search providers including Live Search, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Amazon, and others.

Internet Explorer 8
Use Web slices to conveniently keep up with changes on frequently updated websites, like eBay auctions or traffic sites, directly from the IE8 toolbar.

Easy to communicate and share

Windows Live Photo Gallery
Windows Live Photo Gallery makes share your photos to your favorite photo site easy.

Windows Live Mail
Windows Live Mail makes managing multiple email accounts easy.

Windows Live Family Safety
Keep your child safe by managing what sites they can visit and who they can send/receive emails and im communications from.

Note: Windows Live components need to be downloaded separately.

Works The Way You Want

Faster and More Reliable

Resume from sleep
We designed Windows 7 to help PCs sleep and resume from sleep more quickly by improving the way Windows 7 manages drivers, programs, and power.

Faster and more reliable
We reduced the amount of memory your PC needs for open windows and to execute commands to help it be more responsive to commands.

Fewer clicks and less interruptions

Makes New Things Possible

Media on your terms

Windows Media Center
Turn your PC into a TV with Windows Media Center.

Windows Media Center
Watch shows for free when and where you want with Internet TV.

DirectX 11
DirectX 11 technology delivers breathtaking game graphics so real, it’s unreal.

New ways to engage

Windows Touch
Windows Touch makes PCs with touch screens easier and more intuitive to use.

Media on your terms

Windows Media Player
More and more consumer electronics, from TVs to digital photo frames, can be connected to home networks. With Play To in Windows 7, you’ll be able to easily send music, photos, videos from your PC to a networked device throughout your home.

You can enjoy the photos, music, and videos on your home PC when you’re away from home with remote media streaming.

Work anywhere

Location Aware Printing
Windows 7 will automatically pick the right printer for you when you move from home to work networks.

Work anywhere with less effort.

• Get connected in three clicks wherever there’s a wireless network connection.
• Keep documents on your PC and on network servers in sync automatically.
• Your PC will automatically use the printer you prefer for whatever network you’re on.
• Simplify making presentations special settings that keep your PC from sleeping and turn off messages, notifications, and screen savers.
• Instantly locate virtually any file, email, or document on your PC just by typing a word or two.
• Get around your PC faster with the improved taskbar.
• Open programs you use regularly in one click and files you use regularly in just two.
• Manage lots of open programs, documents, and browser windows easily with thumbnail and full-screen previews of open windows.
• Manage multiple email accounts, including Hotmail, Gmail, AOL, and Yahoo! Mail Plus, all in one place with one simple program.
• Get to the files, photos, and music on any PC with Windows 7 in the house from any other.
• Print to any printer in the house from any PC with Windows 7 in the house.

Safeguard your hard work.

• Advanced Backup and Restore makes it easier to keep your work safely backed up to external or network drives and accessible if you need it.
• File encryption helps keep proprietary and confidential information on a PC secure if it is lost or stolen.
• Preserve your investment in programs designed for Windows XP with Windows XP Mode.
• Windows Internet Explorer 8 helps keep your PC safer from malware and you safer from fraudulent websites designed to fool you into divulging private information.
• Easily add your PC to a secured, managed, network with domain join capabilities.
• Group policy controls help administrators more easily and effectively manage the security and configuration of multiple PCs.

Choose the Windows 7 Edition That Is Best For You

Skifree Online

SkiFree is a computer game created by Chris Pirih, who was working as a programmer at Microsoft at the time. The object of the game is simple: to ski down an endless slope and avoid the obstacles.

Pirih had created SkiFree in C on his home computer for his own education and entertainment. The game eventually attracted the attention of a program manager for Microsoft Entertainment Pack when he noticed Pirih playing it at work, leading to the inclusion of the game in the next Entertainment Pack release with Pirih’s consent.

The game was featured in the Best of Windows Entertainment Pack and was available as a ported version for Macintosh. SkiFree was also one of seven games included in The Best of Entertainment Pack released for Game Boy Color in 2001.

In 1993, Pirih started work on a second version of the game, but it was abandoned for other projects as the original source code was lost.

On April 4, 2005, Pirih announced the rediscovery of the game’s source code and the creation of a 32-bit version of SkiFree.
Source: Wikipedia

Popular Skifree on Twitter:

pkxo:
juego skifree….. ya me escapo twice del mounstro de las nieves …. XP

elecray7k:
SkiFree in boardgame form. AT LAST. RT @AllieG: Danger awaits the Ididatrod (sp?) racers… @thebus won. http://twitpic.com/w9qga

octokiss:
@sonoyourface http://www.fanfiction.net/game/SkiFree/

willbundy:
Holy shit I had forgotten about Skifree! Best game ever! (Not really, just best game that lets you get eaten by a snowman.)

yansern:
@syahzul Reminds me of the classic SkiFree game, not that it has anything to do with the board game. ;-) http://im.ly/c22d1/

dylanpine:
#10yearsago I was playing SkiFree and Oregon trail. and was in 4th grade. And very excited about going to see the fireworks.

marcusjkr:
minha infância, em 2 maravilhosos games de Win95: http://ski.ihoc.net/ (SkiFree) e http://tinyurl.com/57wfkx (Bow & arrow)

hranganath:
is playing skifree

dimetriwilker:
SkiFree: http://xkcd.com/667 (via @xkcdapp) : another theory shot to shit.

LadySaraJ:
@WaveyRanchero ohh cool. I play the Sims 2, and thats about it. what’s SkiFree about?

elisa_kawaii:
nostalgia feelings: baixando SkiFree (alguém lembra disso? e do protetor de tela do náufrago?) #velha

WGME:
Snow coming this weekend! This could be the storm that wins you a pair of lift tickets!!!
Text "SKIFREE" to 30364… http://bit.ly/5TPZj6

tsuei:
Took me 15 years and xkcd to find out that there’s actually a way of beating the SkiFree monster… sigh. http://xkcd.com/667

rk4n:
SkiFree [xkcd] http://bit.ly/4SOLCr

HrrcnIslndhrt:
@ryanqnorth If it exists, there’s fan fiction of it. (Like the fan fiction for SkiFree on FF.net.)

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