New and updated Accessories: With Windows 7, Microsoft has updated some of it's standard accessories like Calculator, Paint and Wordpad and also has introduced some more. "As you get to try out these applications you'll see that while showcasing the Windows 7 platform innovations, we have also added some commonly requested features and functionality," says the Engineering Windows 7 blog. "Some of them are: check and correct, calculation modes and templates in Calculator; new brushes, shapes and multi-touch support in Paint; Open standards support in Wordpad and Ink; and text, taskbar and search integration in Sticky notes. Maybe we won't wait 10 years to update these again :-)" We hope the same too.

Calculator has been updated after 10 years since the last update. The reason that Microsoft decided to update the Calculator application is to make it easier to use it with the touch feature. Now it supports 4 view modes, standard, Scientific, Programmer and Statistics.

In Paint and Wordpad, appart from those mentioned above, the biggest change is of course the integration of the Ribbon interface, that has also become a feature of Microsoft Office, which according to Microsoft provides: "a rich, graphical user interface for all commands in a single place, without the need to expose various functions and commands under different menus or toolbars."

Wordpad with the ribbon interface..

..and Paint too.

Math input Panel: Math Input panel is a new toll that will help us to write easily mathematical equations the natural way.

With Math input Panel we can write equations with only our mouse

Those equations can be transferred easily to other programs that support MathML format like StarOffice, OpenOffice, Opera, Maple etc.

Math Input Panel is designed to be used with a tablet pen on a tablet PC, but you can use it with any input device, such as a touchscreen, external digitizer, or even your mouse.