You’ve probably seen the commercials about Windows 7 and the cloud. You probably don’t know what the cloud is or how it relates to Windows 7. The cloud is the Internet and the things you can do over the Internet, such as email, sharing pictures and using software. Windows 7 along with Windows Live Essentials, free software from Microsoft, allows you to easily share your photos and documents using Microsoft’s SkyDrive. See SkyDrive article below for more information.	Jump Lists which is a new feature in Windows 7 allows you to get to the documents, pictures, songs and web sites you use the most. In most cases, you can get to your document in just 2 mouse clicks. In Windows 7, when you click the start button you are presented a window that shows all of the programs you’ve used most recently. Hovering over for instance Excel, presents a list of the most recent Excel documents you have opened. You can click the Excel document for it to be opened immediately in Excel. Click this link Jump list example to see a Jump list.
SkyDrive is a free Internet storage service by Microsoft. SkyDrive allows you to store your photos, documents and music on the Internet for anywhere-anytime access from any computer that has an Internet connection. SkyDrive allows you to share your data with anyone you designate. Just send them an email link and they can access the data. You can also designate who can make changes to your data. This is another way of sharing data and documents without sending them in an email. Click www.live.com to sign up for the free service.	Microsoft Office 2010 is the latest edition of the most widely used productivity software in the world. This latest edition contains a number of new features, most notably the ribbon and the Backstage view. The Backstage view replaces the traditional File menu to give you centralized and easy access to operations such as save, share, print and publish. Publish can be used to save your document to your SkyDrive. The Recent list, which is located in the Backstage view, lists all of the recently opened documents. Therefore, you can easily get to the documents you used most recently or the documents you use the most. For an example of the Recent list, click this link.
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