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Friday, January 30, 2009 12:00 AM

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 behalf of the entire Windows team for all the installs and usage we are seeing of the Windows 7 Beta. We’ve had millions of installations of Windows 7 from
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:00 AM

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 use applet, application, program, and tool all interchangeably as we write about these) in Windows—historically Calc (Calculator), Paint (or MS Paint, Paint
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Sunday, January 25, 2009 12:00 AM

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 topic!) is the desire to improve the disk defrag utility in Windows 7. We did. And from blogs we saw a few of you noticed, which is great. This is not as straight
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:00 AM

Follow-up: Accessibility in Windows 7

We’ve seen some comments recently posted on a previous post on accessibility and a member of the User Interface Platform team wanted to offer some thoughts on the topic.  Brett is a senior test lead who leads our efforts testing the Accessibility
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Monday, January 19, 2009 12:00 AM

Engineering the Windows 7 “Windows Experience Index”

We’re busy going through tons of telemetry from the many people that have downloaded and installed the Windows 7 beta around the world. We’re super excited to see the excitement around kicking the tires. Since most folks on the beta are well-versed in
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Thursday, January 15, 2009 12:00 AM

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 we’d offer a quick update for folks. We know most of you have discovered this and picked a setting that works for you, and we're happy with the feedback
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Saturday, January 10, 2009 12:00 AM

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 7, we thought it would be a good idea to start to talk about how we support devices through testing and work across the PC ecosystem. This is a big undertaking
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:00 AM

Windows 7 Energy Efficiency

Happy New Year! The following post continues our discussion of fundamentals with a focus on power management. Power Management (or energy efficiency) is something that every contributor to the PC Ecosystem must always address—the energy efficiency of
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