WinSe7en

Networkworld is saying that Windows 7 will be released in January of 2010. I have a hard time believing Microsoft will miss a Christmas rush again after missing it with Vista. Continue Reading…

Beta users have spotted a feature called ‘Windows Sensors’, which may be related to multi-touch, or possibly to syncing with mobile phones. Continue Reading…

The jump from XP to Windows 7 will be similar if not worse than the jump from XP to Vista, so starting a Vista deployment now will make a migration to Windows 7 easier. Continue Reading…

Some say it will be, some say it won’t be, some say we already have it. Ah the wonder revolving around MinWin… Continue Reading…

Julie Larson-Green demos Multi-Touch on a Windows 7 computer, showing a few different sample applications that can take advantage of it. She also says she can’t talk about the changes to the taskbar that were pointed out during the demo.

Long Zheng is working to find all those GUI anomalies and point them out to Microsoft so they can be fixed for Windows 7. Report any that you know of! Continue Reading…

Microsoft is being proactive in requiring vendors to begin looking at Windows 7 as soon as the first beta is released, and making them submit logs showing how their drivers do on the new OS. Continue Reading…

Ed provides some good suggestions on how to modify UAC for Windows 7 so users aren’t so annoyed by it, and are more likely to keep it turned on. Continue Reading…

James talks about how the similarities in Vista and Windows 7 suggest that deploying Vista first will make rolling out Windows 7 easier. Continue Reading…

Windows 7 will be a key topic at the Professional Developers Conference in October, and will include sessions such as “Web services in native code,” “Optimizing for energy efficiency and battery life” and “touch computing.” Continue Reading…