Engineering Windows 7

2/7/2020

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Welcome to our blog dedicated to the engineering of Microsoft Windows 7

Over the past week we have seen a little bit of blogosphere activity regarding Windows 7 and...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 02/08/2010

This has been a busy couple of days for a few of us on the team as we had a report of a bug in...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 08/10/2009

Today marks an important milestone in the Windows 7 project. The Windows 7 team is proud to share...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 07/22/2009

Microsoft has been a global software company for a long time and has always put a lot of effort into...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 07/07/2009

One of the many passions held by Bill Gates is a passion for reading and so his desire to make...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 06/23/2009

Delivering excellent audio playback on a PC is one of those “much harder than it looks” technical...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 06/17/2009

When we posted the new "inbox" desktop backgrouns, the reactions showed just how personal,...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 06/03/2009

As you can imagine, our team is quite busy working through this next phase of Windows 7. We...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 05/26/2009

We’ve blogged about a number of features related to home networking and media in Windows 7. A...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 05/12/2009

Back in January we released the Beta and updated you on our overall engineering process that will...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 05/11/2009

There’s a lot of excitement around the potential for the widespread adoption of solid-state drives...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 05/05/2009

Greetings! Based on the data we’re seeing we know a lot of folks on MSDN/TechNet/Connect are...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 05/02/2009

As mentioned before on this blog (regarding our UAC changes) and on the IE blog (regarding the...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 04/27/2009

One of the areas of any release of Windows that receives a significant amount of testing and...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 04/25/2009

There’s a strong community of developers who take advantage of the ink input/TabletPC functionality...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 04/23/2009

This is a little bit of a tricky post to write because we’re going to be asking everyone using our...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 04/07/2009

We’ve come a long way in engineering Windows 7 since we first provided an engineering preview of...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 03/25/2009

The Windows Explorer has evolved by enabling you to find all sorts of content by searching for it....

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 03/23/2009

Here’s a behind the scenes look at the design of the Aero Snap feature in Windows 7. We thought it...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 03/17/2009

Hey folks, just wanted to provide another update (building on the recent post on some changes since...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 03/13/2009

This post continues the discussion of Compatibility testing from our test team. --Steven In the...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 03/09/2009

The theme of “choice and control” has been applied in many aspects of how we have designed Windows...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 03/06/2009

Delivering a new release of Windows includes a major effort to insure that applications continue to...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 03/03/2009

We’ve been quite busy for the past two months or so working through all the feedback we’ve received...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 02/26/2009

Just about every email we receive and every comment we get comes with feedback—something to change,...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 02/25/2009

As we connect through this blog and through all of those talking about Windows 7 it is clear that...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 02/18/2009

Even with the pictures and videos so commonplace on PCs, many of us spend most of our time looking...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 02/13/2009

Microsoft has been working on handwriting recognition for over 15 years going back to the Pen...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 02/09/2009

When we started the “E7” blog we were both excited and also a bit uneasy. The excitement is obvious....

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 02/05/2009

Hi, Jon DeVaan here to talk to you about the recent UAC feedback we’ve been receiving. Most of our...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 02/05/2009

Many posts start with a thank you and I want to start this post with an extra special thank you on...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 01/30/2009

About every decade we make the big decision to update what we refer to as the applets (note we’ll...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 01/28/2009

One of the features that you’ve been pretty clear about (I’ve received over 100 emails on this...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 01/25/2009

We’ve seen some comments recently posted on a previous post on accessibility and a member of the...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 01/21/2009

We’re busy going through tons of telemetry from the many people that have downloaded and installed...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 01/19/2009

There’s been a ton of interest in how we have improved user account control (UAC) and so we thought...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 01/15/2009

As most folks (finally) get the beta and start to set aside some time to install and try out Windows...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 01/10/2009

Happy New Year! The following post continues our discussion of fundamentals with a focus on power...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 01/06/2009

Like many places we’ve spent the past few weeks under quite a bit of snow, which is pretty unusual...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 12/30/2008

We've talked some about performance in this blog and recently many folks have been blogging and...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 12/15/2008

This post is from Michael Bernstein, a development lead on the User Interface Platform team where he...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 11/30/2008

Happy Birthday Windows! Given all the interest in the most used user-interface of Windows we thought...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 11/20/2008

This post is about disk space and the disk space “consumed” by Windows 7. Disk space is the sort of...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 11/19/2008

We’re back! We’ve had a pretty incredible couple of weeks at the PDC and WinHEC. Based on what we...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 11/11/2008

This has been an amazingly special week for the Windows 7 team. We’re all incredibly appreciative of...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 11/01/2008

The discussion and email about desktop search offered an opportunity for us to have a deeper...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 10/23/2008

Larry is very appreciative of the reception and comments his post received. Thank you! It is worth...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 10/18/2008

Aka: A developers view of the Windows 7 Engineering process This post is by Larry Osterman. Larry is...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 10/15/2008

One of the points of feedback has been about disabling services and optionally installing...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 10/13/2008

We promised that this blog would provide a view of Engineering Windows 7 and that means that we...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 10/08/2008

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