Engineering Windows 7
Martin | Aug 15, 2008 | Comments 1
Windows 7 News! There is finally a sign of life, an official that is, from Microsoft about Windows 7. Microsoft kicked of the Engineering Windows 7 blog which is run by two senior engineering managers for the Windows 7 product. The interesting aspect of this specific Windows 7 blog is that it is maintained and run by Microsoft employees that are deeply involved in the creation of Windows 7 and that it aims for a two-way communication instead of just reports without interaction.
We strongly believe that success for Windows 7 includes an open and honest, and two-way, discussion about how we balance all of these interests and deliver software on the scale of Windows. We promise and will deliver such a dialog with this blog.
Two events for developers have been mentioned in their initial blog post where Microsoft will provide “in-depth technical information about Windows 7″ and that the blog will inform interested users with regular posts about behind the scene developments. The two events mentioned are PDC (Professional Developers Conference) on October 27 and WinHec (Windows Hardware Engineering Conference) a week later. Seems we have to wait two more months before we finally get detailed information about the Windows 7 plattform.
The last paragraph is especially interesting and comments on the flow of news since the first announcement of Windows 7. Microsoft is trying to gain control of the discussion and communication about Windows 7 which is understandable. Rumors have been filling the void space that Microsoft left by not talking to anyone outside about Windows 7 and it’s time to control the information flow as we are slowly seeing the finish line in sight.
They also mention that they want to “make sure not to set expectations around the release that end up disappointing you” which was a major error Microsoft made during Windows Vista development.
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as a long term PC user that saw the initial hit of vista on the scene as crap and the long time tweaking that still needs to take place on vista that seems now finally to be happening my major concern that will decide if I actually buy seven or convert to the inevitable backlash if things don’t get fixed to linux is whether or not you actually address my major complaint. There’s only so far you can go to simplify the pc for the end user. old grannies who don’t get that the pc won’t turn on because it’s not plugged in should not have 75% of the budget thrown at them. I like what I see here because it seems to suggest that you guys are retabulating things so a user can take “Routes” thru how he works on his pc in order to increase efficency. Great! don’t screw me over though by kicking my cpu and gpu threshold into the roof by sanding me down with bells and whistles for a million and one things explaining how features work. I’d like to learn it myself. I’d really prefer if you guys release a standard version of this for the mainstream crowd and then a gamers and then for the 3rd crowd “Expert gamers” like me who already bloody know everything and will figure it out by pointing and clicking anyways. I know we’re not a large market figure atm but we’re growing and eventually we’re going to be huge. I think by the time Windows 7 hits this will be a reasonable request.