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Vista's Successor Is Simply 7
Microsoft Watch — ... Backward compatibility and product reliability are Microsoft's two major measures for Windows 7. I find Microsoft's Engineering 7 blog to be fascinating reading and largely indicative of the no-frills approach. Most posts follow two tracks: Defending decisions made developing Vista and then promising to make changes. If the features are justified, why are they being changed? It's a contradiction. Still, the communication is good. The E7 bloggers are doing a good job setting expectations, which in some ways is reducing them. The Windows 7 naming announcement is yet another ...

Waiting For Windows 7
Forward Thinking by Michael J. Miller — ... ." Microsoft's development team has been posting lots of hints on its development blog, Engineering Windows 7 . A number of sites have talked about early builds and speculation about what will be new. (Here's ...

Goodbye Vista, Hello Windows 7
p2pnet news — ... Meanwhile, if you want chapter and verse on what’ s going on with Windows 7, check out the check out the Engineering Windows 7 blog. ...

Microsoft Gives Bloggers Laptops, Again
Microsoft Watch — ... a speaker as a block of wood. Rather, he gave a clear, concise and well-spoken keynote. Steven got across the Windows 7 message and surprisingly well, considering the diverse audiences. While he may have been addressing developers, his real audience was much bigger given that Windows 7 was being shown off publicly for the first time. During our 30 minutes together, Debbie and I discussed some of Microsoft's other Seven messaging efforts. "It's all Steven," she said of the Engineering Windows 7 blog . She conveyed his passion for the product, which even I can feel through the ...

Microsoft, Give Thanks!
Microsoft Watch — ... . PDC demos rocked, and the Engineering Windows 7 Weblog is setting new standards for Microsoft transparency. Somebody hit the reboot button on Vista and it came back Seven. Blogger, customer, enthusiast, journalist and partner responses are, so far (knock on wood), much better for Seven the pre-beta than Windows Vista with Service Pack 1. 3. Yahoo Chairman Jerry Yang. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer should really send Jerry a nice gift basket this holiday. If not for Jerry's resistance, Microsoft would have bought Yahoo for $44.6 billion in February or March. The acquisition ...

Microsoft Confirms IE8 Can be Removed from Windows 7
ReadWriteWeb — ... In a post on the Engineering Windows 7 blog Friday, Mayo explained: "In addition to the features that were already available to turn on or off in Windows Vista, we've added the following features to the list in Windows 7:" ...

Windows 7 RC lock-down?
SuperSite Blog — ... At least it appears that way. Over on the ever-verbose Engineering Windows 7 blog, Microsoft executives continue to wax on and on about absolutely nothing new, as if trying to keep our attention away from the fact that they're hiding something ("Look, we 'designed' Aero Snap!" Nothing to see here!). Conspiracy theorists, unite ... Sort of. This is only partially a guess. ...