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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:00 AM

Touching Windows 7

We’ve come a long way in engineering Windows 7 since we first provided an engineering preview of Windows 7 and the work we are doing to support the touch interface paradigm back at the D: All Things Digital conference . We chose to kick-off the discussion
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Monday, March 23, 2009 12:00 AM

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. Many of you have used the search features in Windows Vista (based on our instrumented data) from the start menu or from the search box in Explorer. It has
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 12:00 AM

Designing Aero Snap

Here’s a behind the scenes look at the design of the Aero Snap feature in Windows 7. We thought it would be fun to take a look at the overall design process of the feature and the tools and techniques used. This feature poses a unique design challenge
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Friday, March 13, 2009 12:00 AM

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 Beta ) on some of the changes you will see in the Release Candidate. Again, there are many and this is not an exhaustive list. Of course we continue to
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Monday, March 09, 2009 12:00 AM

Application Compatibility Testing -- International

This post continues the discussion of Compatibility testing from our test team. --Steven In the previous blog post " Application Compatibility Testing for Windows 7 " we talked about the importance of Application Compatibility and work we are doing to
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Friday, March 06, 2009 12:00 AM

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 7. We’ve certainly received lots of positive feedback about the theme and about the choices we’ve made in the design, and we’ve also received a few suggestions
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009 12:00 AM

Application Compatibility Testing -- Overview

Delivering a new release of Windows includes a major effort to insure that applications continue to function as well on the new release as they have on the previous release. At the PDC we talked about some of the new areas of Windows Vista that reduced
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