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Welcome to our blog dedicated to the engineering of Microsoft Windows 7

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2024 1

  1. Windows 7 Battery Notification Messages

2009 37

  1. User Account Control
  2. Windows Desktop Search
  3. Engineering 7: A view from the bottom
  4. From Idea to Feature: A view from Design
  5. Follow-up: Windows Desktop Search
  6. Back from the PDC…next up, WinHEC
  7. Action Center
  8. Disk Space
  9. The Windows 7 Taskbar
  10. Accessibility in Windows 7
  11. Continuing our discussion on performance
  12. At Home with HomeGroup in Windows 7
  13. Windows 7 Energy Efficiency
  14. Primer on Device Support and Testing for Windows 7
  15. User Account Control (UAC) – quick update
  16. Engineering the Windows 7 “Windows Experience Index”
  17. Follow-up: Accessibility in Windows 7
  18. Disk Defragmentation – Background and Engineering the Windows 7 Improvements
  19. Showcasing Windows 7 Platform with Applets
  20. Our Next Engineering Milestone
  21. Update on UAC
  22. UAC Feedback and Follow-Up
  23. Recognizing Improvements in Windows 7 Handwriting
  24. Advances in typography and text rendering in Windows 7
  25. Engineering the Windows 7 Boot Animation
  26. Feedback and Engineering Windows 7
  27. Some Changes Since Beta for the RC
  28. Beta to RC Changes – Turning Windows Features On or Off
  29. Application Compatibility Testing -- Overview
  30. Application Compatibility Testing -- International
  31. A few more changes from Beta to RC…
  32. Designing Aero Snap
  33. Federating Windows Search with Enterprise Data Sources
  34. Touching Windows 7
  35. Delivering a quality upgrade experience
  36. Ink Input and Tablet PC
  37. Engineering Windows 7 Graphics Performance

2008 29

  1. Improvements to AutoPlay
  2. A Little Bit of Personality
  3. Support and Q&A for Solid-State Drives
  4. Our Next Engineering Milestone
  5. Media Streaming with Windows 7
  6. Safeguarding Windows 7 – Parental Controls
  7. Creating, Saving, Sharing Themes in Windows 7
  8. Improving Audio Glitch Resilience in Windows 7
  9. Engineering Changes to ClearType in Windows 7
  10. Engineering Windows 7 for a Global Market
  11. Our Next Engineering Milestone: RTM
  12. What we do with a bug report?
  13. Follow-up: Managing Windows windows
  14. User Interface: Managing Windows windows
  15. Follow-up: Starting, Launching, and Switching
  16. User Interface: Starting, Launching, and Switching
  17. The "Ecosystem"
  18. More Follow up to discussion about High DPI
  19. Follow-up on High DPI resolution
  20. The Windows Feedback Program
  21. Reflecting on a few recent threads…
  22. Organizing the Windows 7 Project
  23. Product Planning for Windows...where does your feedback really go?
  24. Boot Performance
  25. Windows 7 -- Approach to System Performance
  26. Measuring the scale of a release
  27. The Windows 7 Team
  28. Welcome to Engineering Windows 7
  29. Guidelines on Comments