WinSe7en

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…

Corrine makes her first post about Windows 7, and points out that 64-bit will be available, but Microsoft still seems to see it as only interesting to business. I think 3.5GB of RAM won’t last much longer, and we’ll need 64-bit everywhere to get more. Continue Reading…

Mary Jo talks about the late 2009 release date, and a rumor of a preview release in October. Continue Reading…

Long describes how a number of screen shots shown by CrunchGear/TechCrunch are just third-party mock ups, and not actual screen shots of Windows 7. Continue Reading…

Included in the Windows 7 talk is the demo, shown in my previous post, and word that Windows 7 is due late in 2009. Continue Reading…