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Updating the Windows 7 release schedule

Microsoft has been doing an admirable job of suppressing leaks about its Windows 7 release plans. But someone in Redmond needs to do a better job of teaching its own employees when not to hit the Publish button on web pages. Based on a page that was accidentally published on...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, OEM, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2009-03-26

What do Windows 7 beta testers really want?

Windows beta testing ain't what it used to be. Over the past couple of days, this reality seems to be setting in among some Windows 7 testers. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Team, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Office, Feedback, Tester, Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Team Management, Software, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-02-20

Shhhh! Pre-beta Vista SP1 is out there

Over the past couple of days, there have been new reports of sightings of the pre-beta of Windows Vista Service Pack SP 1. The reported build number: 6001.16549 (longhorn_sp1beta1.070628-1825).I've been getting tips over the past couple of weeks from testers who said they had the promised pre-beta. The tipsters all...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-08-07

Regime change at Microsoft

Various news outlets, including The Wall Street Journal (subscribers-only link) and News.com, are reporting that Microsoft is about to split its Windows division into eight groups and bring in a replacement for the retiring Jim Allchin, who is currently in charge of all things Windows. The most important of the...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Steven Sinofsky

Blog posts 2006-03-23

Additional Resources

Microsoft designs laptop for developer giveaway

Windows division president Steven Sinofsky took his Windows team through the process of designing and building a Windows 7 laptop in conjunction with Acer. LOS ANGELES--As a software guy, Windows division president Steven Sinofsky readily admits that he had little idea of all that goes into building a laptop....

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Microsoft, Acer, laptop, Ina Fried CNET News

News items 2009-11-19

Microsoft promotes Windows chief Sinofsky to president

Head of Windows and Windows Live Engineering Steven Sinofsky is now one of a handful of Microsoft presidents. The news comes with Windows 7 expected to be released to manufacturing in the next couple of weeks. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: President, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-07-08

Windows 7 to be ready for holiday shopping season

Microsoft has finally acknowledged what outside observers have realized for some time: Windows 7 is going to be ready this year, in time for the holiday shopping season. That's the official message from the opening of Tech-Ed 2009 in Los Angeles today: Microsoft Tech*Ed North America 2009 kicked off...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2009-05-11

Windows 7 RC gets its first bug, and it's a doozy

Windows 7 RC gets its first bug, and it's a doozyWindows 7 RC gets its first bug, and it's a doozyMicrosoft Windows 7 which is still in testing phase has a bug. Bug is reported and fixed. So the testing phase/system worked. No big deal.Oh for crying...

Tags: Operating systems, first bug, Microsoft Windows 7, doozy, Windows 7 RC, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-05-08

Windows 7: Beta testers, not Microsoft, need more feedback

When I saw Windows 7 chief Steven Sinofsky had published another (epic-length) post, entitled "Feedback and Engineering Windows 7, I was encouraged. Until I read the post, that is. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-02-25

Windows 7 Beta 1: Ribbonized For Your Pleasure

The Windows 7 Operating System has improvements over Windows Vista which include more granular tuning of User Account Control UAC security prompts, a reduced memory footprint and improved performance on less powerful systems. But will the "Ribbonization" of the new user interface created by Steven Sinofsky's...

Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Windows 7, Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Windows 7 Operating System, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Windows 7 Beta 1 to arrive January 13?

At the Professional Developers Conference in late October, Windows chief Steven Sinofsky announced that Windows 7 Beta 1 would be ready "early next year." A Microsoft insider has now confirmed the actual date, which is indeed very early next year. I've put together my predictions for the Beta 1 timeline,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Beta, DVD, Keith, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Jon DeVaan: The mystery man behind Windows 7

The public face of the Windows development-chief duo is Senior Vice President Steven Sinofsky, who runs Windows and Windows Live Engineering. The private face is Jon DeVaan, the head of Microsoft's Core Operating System Division COSD. I had a chance to interview DeVaan by phone this week on his role...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley, Team, Idea, Microsoft Corp., Jon DeVaan, MJF, JD, Engineering Excellence, Microsoft Office, Office Suites

Blog posts 2008-11-06

That "unlocked" Windows 7 taskbar is also unfinished

That "unlocked" Windows 7 taskbar is also unfinishedCompletely defeats MS' purpose....The whole idea was to show complete features. Unlocking incomplete features will have a negative effect when people start finding the bugs. Good idea MS to keep these features locked that weren't complete, but unfortunately they were unlocked.Thanks for the...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, KDE, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-03

A first look at Windows 7's pre-beta PDC release

Is it a major release or just a revamped Windows Vista? That’s the big question surrounding Windows 7, which made its public debut in a keynote address by Steven Sinofsky today at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. Microsoft executives showed off the new Windows...

Tags: Screen, Microsoft Windows 7, Network, Window, Microsoft Windows Vista, Feature, PowerShell Scripting Language, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-10-28

Live blogging PDC Keynote Day 2: Windows 7, Live Mesh and more

Yesterday was so much fun, our cabal of bloggers from across a variety of pubs and sites is  back again live blogging  the Professional Developers Conference PDC Day Two keynotes. The first keynote is going to be the coming out party for Windows 7, with demos of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Blogging, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-10-28

Is Microsoft aiming for an early Windows 7 launch?

Andy Patrizio at InternetNews.com has raised some eyebrows with his report that an “internal calendar” at Microsoft has June 3, 2009 as the planned release date for Windows 7. Isn’t that an awfully compressed beta cycle? It is indeed, and if the new schedule is accurate it's one more sign...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-09-15

Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?

I'm really hoping that Steven Sinofsky will kick off a discussion about Windows 7 pricing over on the Engineering Windows 7 blog sometime soon. I'm not holding my breath because the chances of seeing an open debate on pricing is highly unlikely, but I can dream, can't I? by Adrian...

Tags: Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows 7, OEM, Microsoft Windows Vista, Pricing Strategy, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Pricing, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Windows 7 must avoid the marketing trap that Vista stumbled into

I've been following the Engineering Windows 7 blog closely and I've come to the conclusion that while Steven Sinofsky is a man of many words, those words don't say an awful lot. However, the other day Sinofsky did say something quite interesting. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Home Basic, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Marketing Research, Software, Marketing, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Windows: You say major; I say minor

Windows: You say major; I say minorThey can call it anything they please. It is still overpriced JUNK.Get Linux :-)Duck the questionMaybe they should do another theme change. For a while it was a series number (3.1), then a year (95, 98, 98SE, 2000), then a letter combo XP,...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

My Windows 7 wish list

Cynics see the new Engineering Windows 7 blog, which launched last week, as a pure PR play from Microsoft. Maybe. But in a 2000-word post yesterday, Windows boos Steven Sinofsky provided some more details about the development effort, including some clues as to what to expect in Windows 7. In...

Tags: Team, Microsoft Windows 7, Sinofsky, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-08-19