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Windows 7 Battery Notification Messages

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 related to the engineering of Windows 7 we’re going to use this blog to provide an update to people. As we have talked about many times, we have a

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[ More ] February 9th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Blogs |

Engineering Changes to ClearType in Windows 7

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, Bill Gates unveiled ClearType – hard to believe it was that long ago. Back when it was announced,

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[ More ] November 3rd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Blogs |

Safeguarding Windows 7 – Parental Controls

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 expect at this point.  On a personal note, I wanted to thank all the folks who have been sending me mail.  I’ve received a

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[ More ] November 3rd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Blogs |

Media Streaming with Windows 7

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 you to use a Windows 7 PC as a hub for media sharing—where you can share media with other PCs and devices on your home network

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[ More ] November 3rd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Blogs |

Our Next Engineering Milestone

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 we’re already seeing a lot of installations and a lot of excitement.  On behalf of the team, I want to extend a thank you

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[ More ] November 2nd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Blogs |

Support and Q&A for Solid-State Drives

There’s a lot of excitement around the potential for the widespread adoption of solid-state drives (SSD) for primary storage, particularly on laptops and also among many folks in the server world.  As with any new technology, as it is introduced we often need to revisit the assumptions baked into the overall system (OS, device support, applications) as a result of

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[ More ] November 2nd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Blogs |

Engineering Windows 7 Graphics Performance

One of the areas of any release of Windows that receives a significant amount of testing and scrutiny is the performance of graphics—desktop graphics all the way to the most extreme CAD and game graphics.  The amazing breadth of hardware supported for Windows and the broad spectrum of usage scenarios contributes to a vibrant ecosystem with many different goals—from just

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[ More ] November 2nd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Blogs |

Ink Input and Tablet PC

There’s a strong community of developers who take advantage of the ink input/TabletPC functionality to develop unique solutions for specific markets (medicine, education, line of business) and create software in Windows that builds on this experience to streamline how these end-users interact with information on their PC (usually with unique form-factors such as slates or wall mounted PCs).  Earlier this

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[ More ] November 2nd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Blogs |

Delivering a quality upgrade experience

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 commitment to helping test the next milestone. This has been a remarkably valuable and beneficial testing cycle

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[ More ] November 2nd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Blogs |

Win the War Against Windows Registry Errors in Minutes – How to Clean the Registry Successfully

If you want to know how you can get rid of all windows registry errors and keep a clean registry for good, then you are lucky you have pressed this link since here you will find out all about the most incredible ally against the windows registry errors: the good and capable registry cleaner. This programs is much more that

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[ More ] November 2nd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Blogs |
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