Windows 7 News

The Latest Microsoft Windows 7 News, Milestone, Screenshots & Rumours

Feature Article #1

Windows 7 Multi-touch demo at D6 Conference

We announced a few days ago that Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer will make an appearance at the D6 Conference demonstrating the new user interface of Windows 7.

Martin | May 28th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #2

Microsoft: Why we are not talking about Windows 7 yet

It is clear since day one that Microsoft is using a different approach to communicating Windows 7. One could say they are extremely tight-lipped and do not reveal more than necessary to the public which includes online and offline press. The approach is not without risks and one of the greatest is that not saying [...]

Martin | May 27th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #3

Windows 7 To Break Backwards Compatibility

Previous versions of Windows provided backwards compatibility with older versions of windows, making it easy for users to upgrades as their favorite programs would still work.
However, with Windows 7 Microsoft are approaching backwards compatibility differently, and Windows 7 will not be binary compatible with older versions. This won’t mean that older programs won’t run, [...]

Everton | May 23rd, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #4

Poll: When Will Windows 7 Launch?

We are running our first poll on the site. The poll asks ‘When Will Windows 7 Launch?’. Not the most imaginative of titles, but it’s the question that most readers on this site are asking.
If you haven’t voted yet then cast your vote now below. You can vote below or in the [...]

Everton | May 20th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #5

Bill Gates reveals information about Windows 7

Bill Gates revealed some exciting new information about the upcoming next Microsoft operating system codenamed Windows 7. He spoke at the Windows Digital Lifestyle Consortium in Tokyo and had the following to say about Windows 7.
We’re hard at work, I would say, on the next version, which we call Windows 7. I’m very excited about [...]

Martin | May 14th, 2008 | Continued

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Windows 7 Videos Of M3 Release

We have posted several Windows 7 Screenshots of the new Windows 7 M3 release yesterday which received some great feedback. Several videos were published as well which we would like to share with everyone in this article. The videos are showing some of the known new features that will make it into Windows 7, namely [...]

23Sep2008 | Martin | 7 comments | Continued

Windows 7 M3 Screenshots Galore

You can be sure that screenshots will hit the Internet only a day or two after a release of a new Windows 7 build. It was the same this time as screenshots of new features and designs of Windows 7 were posted at the Think Next website. The screenshot of Windows Media Player light which [...]

20Sep2008 | Martin | 32 comments | Continued

More Basic Windows Applications To Get An Update In Windows 7

The first news are beginning to pour in after the distribution of Windows 7 M3 to a select group of close partners and hardware manufacturers. One exciting bit of information is regarding the basic Windows applications that ship with every version of Windows. News broke out earlier with the release of Windows 7 M1 that [...]

17Sep2008 | Martin | 1 comment | Continued

Windows 7 Coming Sooner Than Expected?

Some rumors emerged the other day which basically suggested that it could very well be possible for a Windows 7 release in mid 2009 according to a new article posted at Internet News which mentioned that an internal Microsoft calendar listed June 3, 2009 as the planned release date of Windows 7 which would just [...]

16Sep2008 | Martin | 7 comments | Continued

WinHEC 2008 Sessions Windows 7 References

The Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2008 will be one of the few events that Microsoft will talk about Windows 7. The conference will be held from November 4 to Novemeber 7 2008.
Microsoft published details about WinHEC 2008 Sessions and there are several interesting references about the upcoming Microsoft operating system Windows 7. The [...]

11Sep2008 | Martin | 1 comment | Continued

Engineering Windows 7 Blog Finally Starting To Mention Windows 7

I was a bit disappointed with the information that were presented in article form on the Engineering Windows 7 blog since its creation. It looked more like a clever Microsoft ploy to divert the attention away from Windows 7 by feeding the masses information about the creation process that would not specifically mention anything new [...]

6Sep2008 | Martin | 2 comments | Continued

Windows 7 Product Planning for Windows

The Engineering Windows 7 blog was updated yesterday with a Mike Angiulo’s post about Product Planning for Windows. Mike Angiulo is the team leader of the Windows PC Ecosystem and Planning team. The post again misses to provide any new information about Windows 7 itself. It rather provides an insight in the workings of the [...]

3Sep2008 | Martin | 1 comment | Continued

Windows 7 Boot Performance

For the first time since its creation another member of the Windows 7 development team has taken the opportunity to write a post on the Engineering Windows 7 blog. Michael Fortin who leads the Fundamentals feature team that is part of the Core Operating System group wrote about Boot Performance in general and Microsoft’s [...]

29Aug2008 | Martin | 1 comment | Continued

Windows 7 System Performance

Just as Microsoft has intended it to be the Windows 7 blog run by two key figures of the Windows 7 development team has become one of the central information for information about the upcoming Microsoft operating system. The regular posts give insight into the development process, the development team and decision process but fail [...]

28Aug2008 | Martin | 1 comment | Continued

Will Windows 7 Be A Major Or Minor Release?

The Engineering Windows 7 blog is taking up full speed supplying the news hungry web community with new information about the coming Microsoft operating system. The last article took a look at the internal development structure of Windows 7 while the new article is about measuring the scale of a release.
Steven is taking a loot [...]

21Aug2008 | Martin | 6 comments | Continued