New Features of Windows 7

1. Application Restart and Recovery API
   2. Windows 7 Taskbar Jump Lists, Icon Overlay, Progress Bar, Tabbed Thumbnails and Thumbnail Toolbars.
   3. Sensor Platform APIs.  
   4. Windows 7 Task Dialogs
   5. Windows 7 Common File Dialogs incuding custom controls.
   6. Explorer Browser Control
   7. Windows 7 Shell Search API Support,,Drag and drop functionality for shell objects etc
   8. Network List Manager APIs
   9. Extended Linguistic Services APIs
  10. Shell Property System
  11. Windows 7 libraries, known folders, non-file system containers
  12. Power Management APIs
  13. Direct 3D support for 11.0, 10.1/ 10.0, Direct 2D, Directwrite, Windows Imaging Component (WIC) APIs etc
  14. Many more ...