Engineering Windows 7

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Primer on Device Support and Testing for Windows 7

January 10, 2009, 3:00 am

As most folks (finally) get the beta and start to set aside some time to install and try out Windows 7, we thought it would be a good idea to start to talk about how we support devices through testing...

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Application Compatibility Testing -- Overview

March 3, 2009, 3:00 am

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...

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Application Compatibility Testing -- International

March 9, 2009, 3:00 am

This post continues the discussion of Compatibility testing from our test team. --StevenIn the previous blog post "Application Compatibility Testing for Windows 7" we talked about the importance of...

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Delivering a quality upgrade experience

April 7, 2009, 3:00 am

This is a little bit of a tricky post to write because we’re going to be asking everyone using our Windows 7 Beta to help us out, but doing so is going to take a little time and require a bit of a...

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What we do with a bug report?

August 10, 2009, 3:00 am

This has been a busy couple of days for a few of us on the team as we had a report of a bug in Windows 7. The specifics of the issue are probably not as important as a discussion over how we will...

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Windows 7 Battery Notification Messages

February 8, 2010, 12:15 pm

Over the past week we have seen a little bit of blogosphere activity regarding Windows 7 and batteries, specifically the new Windows 7 message “Considering replacing your battery”. Since this is...

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Our Next Engineering Milestone

May 11, 2009, 6:01 am

Back in January we released the Beta and updated you on our overall engineering process that will get us from Beta to the Release Candidate. Today, downloading of the Release Candidate started and...

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Media Streaming with Windows 7

May 11, 2009, 8:00 pm

We’ve blogged about a number of features related to home networking and media in Windows 7. A scenario which brings all these together in a pretty cool way is Media Streaming. This scenario allows...

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Safeguarding Windows 7 – Parental Controls

May 25, 2009, 8:00 pm

As you can imagine, our team is quite busy working through this next phase of Windows 7. We definitely appreciate the millions of downloads and installs of the Windows 7 RC. Things are going as we...

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Creating, Saving, Sharing Themes in Windows 7

June 2, 2009, 8:00 pm

When we posted the new "inbox" desktop backgrouns, the reactions showed just how personal, personalization can be. Building on that theme of personalization (pun intended), we wanted to share some of...

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Improving Audio Glitch Resilience in Windows 7

June 16, 2009, 8:00 pm

Delivering excellent audio playback on a PC is one of those “much harder than it looks” technical challenges. Unlike dedicated audio / video devices, PCs have a lot going on during playback of audio...

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Engineering Changes to ClearType in Windows 7

June 22, 2009, 8:00 pm

One of the many passions held by Bill Gates is a passion for reading and so his desire to make reading on PCs a fantastic experience has been an effort ongoing for many years. In the 1998 COMDEX show,...

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