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Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:00 AM

Follow-up: Windows Desktop Search

The discussion and email about desktop search offered an opportunity for us to have a deeper architectural discussion about engineering Windows 7. There were a number of comments suggesting alternate implementation methods so we thought we’d discuss another
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Saturday, October 18, 2008 12:00 AM

From Idea to Feature: A view from Design

Larry is very appreciative of the reception and comments his post received. Thank you! I t is worth noting that we’ve surpassed over 2000 comments and I’ve received and equal amount of email. I am trying to reply as often as I can! We’re 10 days from
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 12:00 AM

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 one of the most “experienced” developers on the Windows team and has been at Microsoft since the mid 1980’s. There are only three other folks who have
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Monday, October 13, 2008 12:00 AM

Windows Desktop Search

One of the points of feedback has been about disabling services and optionally installing components—we’ve talked about our goals in this area in previous posts. A key driver around wanting this type of control (but not the only driver) is a perception
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008 12:00 PM

User Account Control

We promised that this blog would provide a view of Engineering Windows 7 and that means that we would cover the full range of topics—from performance to user interface, technical and non-technical topics, and of course easy topics and controversial topics.
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Saturday, October 04, 2008 12:00 AM

Follow-up: Managing Windows windows

There’s a lot of great discussion from the window arranging post. This really shows how important these details are to people. Being able to arrange how apps are shown on screen is key for productivity because it impacts almost every task. It’s also very
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:00 AM

User Interface: Managing Windows windows

We’ve booted the machine, displayed stuff on the screen, launched programs, so next up we’re going to look at a pretty complex topic that sort of gets to the core role of the graphical user interface—managing windows. Dave Matthews is program manager
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