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Saturday, May 02, 2009 12:00 AM

A Little Bit of Personality

Greetings! Based on the data we’re seeing we know a lot of folks on MSDN/TechNet/Connect are probably busy using the RC (Release Candidate) for Windows 7. Thank you!!! And of course many folks are looking forward to downloading the RC and using it as
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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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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 12:00 AM

Engineering the Windows 7 Boot Animation

As we connect through this blog and through all of those talking about Windows 7 it is clear that folks have a lot of passion around many topics. We learned early on about the passion around the boot/startup sequence and how important it was for that
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Thursday, February 05, 2009 12:00 AM

Update on UAC

Hi, Jon DeVaan here to talk to you about the recent UAC feedback we’ve been receiving. Most of our work finishing Windows 7 is focused on responding to feedback. The UAC feedback is interesting on a few dimensions of engineering decision making process.
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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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Sunday, November 30, 2008 12:00 AM

Accessibility in Windows 7

This post is from Michael Bernstein, a development lead on the User Interface Platform team where he focuses on accessibility. Accessibility is the term we apply to the APIs and features that enable Windows to be used, to be accessible, by as many people
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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, 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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