Welcome to our blog dedicated to the engineering of Microsoft Windows 7
Windows 7 Battery Notification MessagesOver the past week we have seen a little bit of blogosphere activity regarding Windows 7 and...
Date: 02/08/2010
What we do with a bug report?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...
Date: 08/10/2009
Our Next Engineering Milestone: RTMToday marks an important milestone in the Windows 7 project. The Windows 7 team is proud to share...
Date: 07/22/2009
Engineering Windows 7 for a Global MarketMicrosoft has been a global software company for a long time and has always put a lot of effort into...
Date: 07/07/2009
Engineering Changes to ClearType in Windows 7One of the many passions held by Bill Gates is a passion for reading and so his desire to make...
Date: 06/23/2009
Improving Audio Glitch Resilience in Windows 7Delivering excellent audio playback on a PC is one of those âmuch harder than it looksâ technical...
Date: 06/17/2009
Creating, Saving, Sharing Themes in Windows 7When we posted the new "inbox" desktop backgrouns, the reactions showed just how personal,...
Date: 06/03/2009
Safeguarding Windows 7 â Parental ControlsAs you can imagine, our team is quite busy working through this next phase of Windows 7. We...
Date: 05/26/2009
Media Streaming with Windows 7Weâve blogged about a number of features related to home networking and media in Windows 7. A...
Date: 05/12/2009
Our Next Engineering MilestoneBack in January we released the Beta and updated you on our overall engineering process that will...
Date: 05/11/2009
Support and Q&A for Solid-State DrivesThereâs a lot of excitement around the potential for the widespread adoption of solid-state drives...
Date: 05/05/2009
A Little Bit of PersonalityGreetings! Based on the data weâre seeing we know a lot of folks on MSDN/TechNet/Connect are...
Date: 05/02/2009
Improvements to AutoPlayAs mentioned before on this blog (regarding our UAC changes) and on the IE blog (regarding the...
Date: 04/27/2009
Engineering Windows 7 Graphics PerformanceOne of the areas of any release of Windows that receives a significant amount of testing and...
Date: 04/25/2009
Ink Input and Tablet PCThereâs a strong community of developers who take advantage of the ink input/TabletPC functionality...
Date: 04/23/2009
Delivering a quality upgrade experienceThis is a little bit of a tricky post to write because weâre going to be asking everyone using our...
Date: 04/07/2009
Touching Windows 7Weâve come a long way in engineering Windows 7 since we first provided an engineering preview of...
Date: 03/25/2009
Federating Windows Search with Enterprise Data SourcesThe Windows Explorer has evolved by enabling you to find all sorts of content by searching for it....
Date: 03/23/2009
Designing Aero SnapHereâs a behind the scenes look at the design of the Aero Snap feature in Windows 7. We thought it...
Date: 03/17/2009
A few more changes from Beta to RCâ¦Hey folks, just wanted to provide another update (building on the recent post on some changes since...
Date: 03/13/2009
Application Compatibility Testing -- InternationalThis post continues the discussion of Compatibility testing from our test team. --Steven In the...
Date: 03/09/2009
Beta to RC Changes â Turning Windows Features On or OffThe theme of âchoice and controlâ has been applied in many aspects of how we have designed Windows...
Date: 03/06/2009
Application Compatibility Testing -- OverviewDelivering a new release of Windows includes a major effort to insure that applications continue to...
Date: 03/03/2009
Some Changes Since Beta for the RCWeâve been quite busy for the past two months or so working through all the feedback weâve received...
Date: 02/26/2009
Feedback and Engineering Windows 7Just about every email we receive and every comment we get comes with feedbackâsomething to change,...
Date: 02/25/2009
Engineering the Windows 7 Boot AnimationAs we connect through this blog and through all of those talking about Windows 7 it is clear that...
Date: 02/18/2009
Advances in typography and text rendering in Windows 7Even with the pictures and videos so commonplace on PCs, many of us spend most of our time looking...
Date: 02/13/2009
Recognizing Improvements in Windows 7 HandwritingMicrosoft has been working on handwriting recognition for over 15 years going back to the Pen...
Date: 02/09/2009
UAC Feedback and Follow-UpWhen we started the âE7â blog we were both excited and also a bit uneasy. The excitement is obvious....
Date: 02/05/2009
Update on UACHi, Jon DeVaan here to talk to you about the recent UAC feedback weâve been receiving. Most of our...
Date: 02/05/2009
Our Next Engineering MilestoneMany posts start with a thank you and I want to start this post with an extra special thank you on...
Date: 01/30/2009
Showcasing Windows 7 Platform with AppletsAbout every decade we make the big decision to update what we refer to as the applets (note weâll...
Date: 01/28/2009
Disk Defragmentation â Background and Engineering the Windows 7 ImprovementsOne of the features that youâve been pretty clear about (Iâve received over 100 emails on this...
Date: 01/25/2009
Follow-up: Accessibility in Windows 7Weâve seen some comments recently posted on a previous post on accessibility and a member of the...
Date: 01/21/2009
Engineering the Windows 7 âWindows Experience IndexâWeâre busy going through tons of telemetry from the many people that have downloaded and installed...
Date: 01/19/2009
User Account Control (UAC) â quick updateThereâs been a ton of interest in how we have improved user account control (UAC) and so we thought...
Date: 01/15/2009
Primer on Device Support and Testing for Windows 7As most folks (finally) get the beta and start to set aside some time to install and try out Windows...
Date: 01/10/2009
Windows 7 Energy EfficiencyHappy New Year! The following post continues our discussion of fundamentals with a focus on power...
Date: 01/06/2009
At Home with HomeGroup in Windows 7Like many places weâve spent the past few weeks under quite a bit of snow, which is pretty unusual...
Date: 12/30/2008
Continuing our discussion on performanceWe've talked some about performance in this blog and recently many folks have been blogging and...
Date: 12/15/2008
Accessibility in Windows 7This post is from Michael Bernstein, a development lead on the User Interface Platform team where he...
Date: 11/30/2008
The Windows 7 TaskbarHappy Birthday Windows! Given all the interest in the most used user-interface of Windows we thought...
Date: 11/20/2008
Disk SpaceThis post is about disk space and the disk space âconsumedâ by Windows 7. Disk space is the sort of...
Date: 11/19/2008
Action CenterWeâre back! Weâve had a pretty incredible couple of weeks at the PDC and WinHEC. Based on what we...
Date: 11/11/2008
Back from the PDCâ¦next up, WinHECThis has been an amazingly special week for the Windows 7 team. Weâre all incredibly appreciative of...
Date: 11/01/2008
Follow-up: Windows Desktop SearchThe discussion and email about desktop search offered an opportunity for us to have a deeper...
Date: 10/23/2008
From Idea to Feature: A view from DesignLarry is very appreciative of the reception and comments his post received. Thank you! It is worth...
Date: 10/18/2008
Engineering 7: A view from the bottomAka: A developers view of the Windows 7 Engineering process This post is by Larry Osterman. Larry is...
Date: 10/15/2008
Windows Desktop SearchOne of the points of feedback has been about disabling services and optionally installing...
Date: 10/13/2008
User Account ControlWe promised that this blog would provide a view of Engineering Windows 7 and that means that we...
Date: 10/08/2008
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