Windows 7 is an amazing operating system, and probably the best version that Microsoft has released in the past decade – it has everything from support for the latest features and technologies to a very nice interface that can easily compete with that of Mac OS X.

What makes an OS is not the core itself, but the third party apps available for it, and Windows certainly has everything anyone may need – there is a very large developer base creating apps for any purpose, thanks mostly to the fact that Windows is still the most used operating system in the world. No matter what you do on your computer, you can be sure there’s an app to help you do it better and faster. Here are just a few examples of apps that can help you a lot with your daily tasks:

WinSCP allows you safely transfer files to a remote computer; it uses SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) and SCP (Secure Copy) protocols and supports some of the most widely-used encryption algorithms such as Blowfish, AES, DES and 3DES as well as private keys. WinSCP also lets you perform all the file operations that you might ever need such as renaming, moving and copying files, changing file and folder properties, editing text files with the built-in text editor, and performing numerous additional operations locally or on the remote server. WinSCP also supports PuTTY and has been translated to several languages.

Gladinet Cloud Desktop is a Windows utility, which allows you to mount your cloud storages as local folders. This permits you to access all your files and images, stored on your FTP servers, Google Picasa albums, Google Docs and Amazon S3 folders, Box.net, Windows Live Sky drive and other online storages with a single mouse click from within the Windows Explorer.

FileZilla is a FTP program that allows you to do all of the usual uploading and downloading from FTP servers such as your own website or file archives. FileZilla is one of the most popular FTP programs on the net, and it’s easy to see why.