Building Windows 8
An inside look from the Windows engineering team
Updating Windows 8 for General Availability
We are pleased to be releasing a set of improvements to Windows 8 in broad areas of performance,...
Date: 10/09/2012
Updating our built-in apps for Windows 8
We’re super excited to be approaching general availability (GA) of Windows 8 and Windows RT. With...
Date: 10/04/2012
Collaborating to deliver Windows RT PCs
Since RTM on August 1, PC manufacturers have been using the released software to ready new PCs...
Date: 08/13/2012
Releasing Windows 8 - August 1, 2012
Today marks an important milestone in the Windows 8 project. The Windows 8 team is proud to share...
Date: 08/01/2012
Using your feedback to make Narrator work better with touch
Shortly before we released the Windows 8 Consumer Preview in February, we blogged about our work to...
Date: 07/18/2012
Designing the Windows 8 touch keyboard
Starting with the earliest TabletPC enhancements to Windows, we have been working on...
Date: 07/17/2012
Protecting user files with File History
Backing up your critical files is something we all know we should do. Even with everything in...
Date: 07/10/2012
Delivering the Windows 8 Release Preview
Today, Windows 8 Release Preview is available for download in 14 languages. This is our final...
Date: 05/31/2012
Designing for PCs that boot faster than ever before
While we're hard at work making sure you never have to turn off your PC and can run in a connected...
Date: 05/22/2012
Keeping your family safer with Windows 8
One of the intrinsic capabilities of Windows 8 is the ability to use multiple accounts on any PC....
Date: 05/14/2012
Redesigning chkdsk and the new NTFS health model
We’ve written about tons of improvements in the OS kernel, networking, and file system. While...
Date: 05/09/2012
FAQ - DVD playback and Windows Media Center in Windows 8
We thought we would follow up the previous post with an FAQ which is based on the comments and...
Date: 05/04/2012
Internet Explorer Performance Lab: reliably measuring browser performance
A big part of this blog is going behind the scenes to show you all the work that goes into the...
Date: 02/16/2012
Building the next generation file system for Windows: ReFS
We wanted to continue our dialog about data storage by talking about the next generation file system...
Date: 01/16/2012
Virtualizing storage for scale, resiliency, and efficiency
In this post, we are going to dive into a feature in the Windows 8 Developer Preview. Storage Spaces...
Date: 01/05/2012
Optimizing picture password security
We wanted to talk a bit more about the security of picture passwords in a follow up post based on...
Date: 12/19/2011