The next major iteration of the Windows client, Windows 7 has been under development, taking into consideration the planning stage, for approximately two years, and yet outside of the leaked information and then the Milestone 1 Build, little to no details at all are available about the operating system. However, Microsoft is planning to increasingly open up on Windows Vista's successor. Such a scenario simply signals the fact that the Redmond company is comfortable enough with the development of Windows 7 that it is ready to make details of the project public without fear that the final version of the operating system will diverge drastically from the plans set in place.

In this context, Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group and Jon DeVaan, senior vice president, Windows Core Operating System Division, have debuted the Engineering Windows 7 official blog promising nothing short of a flood of information compared to the drought that so far has been synonymous with the Windows project. "This blog will provide context over the next 2+ months with regular posts about the behind the scenes development of the release and continue through the release of the product," the two stated in a post they signed together.

But Microsoft is not done yet. The pair of Windows bosses confirmed that the upcoming PDC2008 and WinHEC 2008 events at the end of the year will be focused on delivering an insight on Windows 7. Sinofsky, leading the Windows group and DeVaan, leading Windows engineering, will provide details about Windows 7 right from the proverbial "horse�s mouth," and the two conferences will come to supplement the information available, in just a couple of months.

"We have two significant events for developers and the overall ecosystem around Windows this fall. The Professional Developers Conference (PDC) on October 27 and the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) the following week both represent the first venues where we will provide in-depth technical information about Windows 7," Sinofsky and DeVaan promised.