Engineering Windows 7
Welcome to our blog dedicated to the engineering of Microsoft Windows 7
Windows 7 Battery Notification Messages
Over 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: RTM
Today 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 Market
Microsoft 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 7
One 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 7
Delivering excellent audio playback on a PC is one of those “much harder than it looks” technical...
Date: 06/17/2009
Creating, Saving, Sharing Themes in Windows 7
When we posted the new "inbox" desktop backgrouns, the reactions showed just how personal,...
Date: 06/03/2009
Safeguarding Windows 7 – Parental Controls
As 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 7
We’ve blogged about a number of features related to home networking and media in Windows 7. A...
Date: 05/12/2009
Our Next Engineering Milestone
Back 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 Drives
There’s a lot of excitement around the potential for the widespread adoption of solid-state drives...
Date: 05/05/2009
A Little Bit of Personality
Greetings! Based on the data we’re seeing we know a lot of folks on MSDN/TechNet/Connect are...
Date: 05/02/2009
Improvements to AutoPlay
As mentioned before on this blog (regarding our UAC changes) and on the IE blog (regarding the...
Date: 04/27/2009
Engineering Windows 7 Graphics Performance
One of the areas of any release of Windows that receives a significant amount of testing and...
Date: 04/25/2009
Ink Input and Tablet PC
There’s a strong community of developers who take advantage of the ink input/TabletPC functionality...
Date: 04/23/2009
Delivering a quality upgrade experience
This is a little bit of a tricky post to write because we’re going to be asking everyone using our...
Date: 04/07/2009
Touching Windows 7
We’ve 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 Sources
The Windows Explorer has evolved by enabling you to find all sorts of content by searching for it....
Date: 03/23/2009
Designing Aero Snap
Here’s 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 RC…
Hey folks, just wanted to provide another update (building on the recent post on some changes since...
Date: 03/13/2009
Application Compatibility Testing -- International
This post continues the discussion of Compatibility testing from our test team. --Steven In the...
Date: 03/09/2009
Beta to RC Changes – Turning Windows Features On or Off
The theme of “choice and control” has been applied in many aspects of how we have designed Windows...
Date: 03/06/2009
Application Compatibility Testing -- Overview
Delivering 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 RC
We’ve been quite busy for the past two months or so working through all the feedback we’ve received...
Date: 02/26/2009
Feedback and Engineering Windows 7
Just about every email we receive and every comment we get comes with feedback—something to change,...
Date: 02/25/2009
Engineering the Windows 7 Boot Animation
As 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 7
Even 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 Handwriting
Microsoft has been working on handwriting recognition for over 15 years going back to the Pen...
Date: 02/09/2009
UAC Feedback and Follow-Up
When we started the “E7” blog we were both excited and also a bit uneasy. The excitement is obvious....
Date: 02/05/2009
Update on UAC
Hi, Jon DeVaan here to talk to you about the recent UAC feedback we’ve been receiving. Most of our...
Date: 02/05/2009
Our Next Engineering Milestone
Many 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 Applets
About every decade we make the big decision to update what we refer to as the applets (note we’ll...
Date: 01/28/2009
Disk Defragmentation – Background and Engineering the Windows 7 Improvements
One of the features that you’ve been pretty clear about (I’ve received over 100 emails on this...
Date: 01/25/2009
Follow-up: Accessibility in Windows 7
We’ve seen some comments recently posted on a previous post on accessibility and a member of the...
Date: 01/21/2009
Engineering the Windows 7 “Windows Experience Index”
We’re busy going through tons of telemetry from the many people that have downloaded and installed...
Date: 01/19/2009
User Account Control (UAC) – quick update
There’s 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 7
As 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 Efficiency
Happy 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 7
Like many places we’ve spent the past few weeks under quite a bit of snow, which is pretty unusual...
Date: 12/30/2008
Continuing our discussion on performance
We've talked some about performance in this blog and recently many folks have been blogging and...
Date: 12/15/2008
Accessibility in Windows 7
This post is from Michael Bernstein, a development lead on the User Interface Platform team where he...
Date: 11/30/2008
The Windows 7 Taskbar
Happy Birthday Windows! Given all the interest in the most used user-interface of Windows we thought...
Date: 11/20/2008
Disk Space
This post is about disk space and the disk space “consumed” by Windows 7. Disk space is the sort of...
Date: 11/19/2008
Action Center
We’re back! We’ve had a pretty incredible couple of weeks at the PDC and WinHEC. Based on what we...
Date: 11/11/2008
Back from the PDC…next up, WinHEC
This has been an amazingly special week for the Windows 7 team. We’re all incredibly appreciative of...
Date: 11/01/2008
Follow-up: Windows Desktop Search
The 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 Design
Larry 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 bottom
Aka: A developers view of the Windows 7 Engineering process This post is by Larry Osterman. Larry is...
Date: 10/15/2008
Windows Desktop Search
One of the points of feedback has been about disabling services and optionally installing...
Date: 10/13/2008
User Account Control
We promised that this blog would provide a view of Engineering Windows 7 and that means that we...
Date: 10/08/2008