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Monday, September 29, 2008 12:00 AM

Follow-up: Starting, Launching, and Switching

Lots of discussion on the taskbar and associated user interface. Chaitanya said he thought it would be a good idea to summarize some of the feedback and thoughts. --Steven We’d like to follow up on some themes raised in comments and email. This post looks
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 12:00 AM

User Interface: Starting, Launching, and Switching

Where to Start? In this post, Chaitanya Sareen, a senior program manager on the Core User Experience team, sets the engineering context for the most frequently used user-interface elements in Windows – the Windows Taskbar. -- Steven It should come as
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 12:00 AM

The "Ecosystem"

In the emails and comments, there are many topics that are raised and more often than not we see the several facets or positions of the issue. One theme that comes through is a desire expressed by folks to choose what is best for them. I wanted to pick
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:00 AM

More Follow up to discussion about High DPI

Excellent! What a fun discussion we’ve been having on High DPI. It has been so enriching that Ryan wrote up a summary of even more of the discussion. Thanks so much! --Steven There have been quite a few comments posted regarding high DPI, along with some
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Saturday, September 13, 2008 12:00 AM

Follow-up on High DPI resolution

One of the cool results of this dialog is how much interest there is in diving into the details and data behind some of the topics as expressed in the comment and emails. We’re having fun talking in more depth about these questions and observations. This
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 12:00 AM

The Windows Feedback Program

Introducing Christina Storm who is a program manager on the Windows Customer Engineering feature team working on telemetry. In a previous article Steven has introduced the Windows 7 Feature Teams. I am a program manager working on telemetry on the Windows
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Saturday, September 06, 2008 12:00 AM

Reflecting on a few recent threads…

When we kicked off this blog, the premise was a dialog – a two-way conversation about the engineering of Windows 7. We couldn’t be happier with the way things have been going in this short time. As we said we intended to do, we’ve started a discussion
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Friday, September 05, 2008 12:00 AM

Organizing the Windows 7 Project

Hi Jon DeVaan here. Steven wrote about how we organize the engineering team on Windows which is a very important element of how work is done. Another important part is how we organize the engineering project itself. I’d like to start with a couple of
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 5:08 PM

Product Planning for Windows...where does your feedback really go?

Ed. Note: Allow me to introduce Mike Angiulo who leads the Windows PC Ecosystem and Planning team. Mike’s team works closely with all of our hardware and software partners and leads the engineering team's product planning and research efforts for each
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