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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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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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Monday, December 15, 2008 12:00 AM

Continuing our discussion on performance

We've talked some about performance in this blog and recently many folks have been blogging and writing about the topic as well. We thought it would be a good time to offer some more behind the scenes views on how we have been working on and thinking
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:00 AM

Disk Space

This post is about disk space and the disk space “consumed” by Windows 7. Disk space is the sort of thing where everyone wants to use less, but the cost of using a bit more relative to the benefits has generally been a positive tradeoff. Things have changed
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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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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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Friday, August 29, 2008 12:00 AM

Boot Performance

Ed. Note: This is our first post from a senior member of the development team. Allow me to introduce Michael Fortin who is one of Microsoft’s Distinguished Engineers and leads the Fundamentals feature team that is in our Core Operating System group. Michael
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:00 AM

Windows 7 -- Approach to System Performance

Many folks have commented and written email about the topic of performance of Windows. The dialog has been wide ranging—folks consistently want performance to improve (of course). As with many topics we will discuss, performance, as absolute and measurable
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