New Microsoft Blog Promises Windows 7 Details
Microsoft has unveiled a new blog dedicated to “Engineering Windows 7,” the next generation of the Windows operating system. The new blog, dubbed E7 for short, claims it will open up “a two-way discussion about how we are making Windows 7.”
The new blog is penned by Steven Sinofsky, head of Windows and Windows Live Engineering, and Jon DeVaan, the head of the Windows Core Operating System Diviion.
Microsoft observer Mary Jo Foley is skeptical of how much the company will reveal through the new blog, likening Microsoft’s approach to “transparency” as what most people might call “translucency” rather than real openness.
Still, regardless of what Microsoft reveals through the blog, it has already announced that it will reveal some details about Windows 7 at two upcoming conferences.
The Professional Developers Conference on October 27 and the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference the following week both represent the first venues where we will provide in-depth technical information about Windows 7.
Until now (and, if Foley is right, even now) Microsoft has seemed reluctant to talk about Windows 7 preferring to focus attention on Windows Vista. The company is also understandably gun-shy about over-promising Windows 7 features after hyping and then failing to deliver Longhorn.
Still, even if the cynics are right and the new blog never reveals much of anything, at least Microsoft is finally starting to publicly discuss Windows 7. According to previous announcements, Microsoft hopes to ship Windows 7 in January 2010.
If you’re curious about Windows 7, head on over and add the E7 blog to your feed reader.
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