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The story accompanying the Windows 8 development process has catapulted Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division into the top position among MSDN bloggers. “Building Windows 8” is a MSDN blog, and this is obvious by just looking at the URL: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/. Sinofsky publis... |
19 September 2011
03:12 GMT |
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Aspects of the file management experience in Windows 8, which has been overhauled already, will continue to be tweaked even further.
Microsoft is gearing up to increase the number of early adopters who are granted access to the Windows 8 testing program, and the company stresses that the operating system is stil... |
6 September 2011
04:51 GMT |
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Windows 8 is still very much still in development and will continue to be for quite some time, Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division, stressed this week. Microsoft has started sharing more and more details with the public on its upcoming release of the Windows client. Per the communications ... |
3 September 2011
11:31 GMT |
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The first pre-release development milestones of Windows 8 will ship without some of the components that have been traditionally associated with Windows. Case in point: Windows Media Center.
According to Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division, the first Build of Windows 8 that testers... |
3 September 2011
03:35 GMT |
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With Windows 8, Microsoft is dreaming big, tasking the OS with changing everything, a revolution to overshadow Windows 95’s role in making PCs ubiquitous. The company’s dreams for Windows 7 were incontestably more modest seeing how the software giant needed mainly to recover from a failed “Wow.&rdq... |
2 September 2011
08:34 GMT |
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Next generation Windows 8 features are being developed by approximately 35 feature teams within the Windows organization, revealed Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division. The Windows boss talked about the people working on the next version of the operating system, referring mainly to those har... |
18 August 2011
09:34 GMT |
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Microsoft has yet to confirm officially the Windows App Store for Windows 8, but the company provided the closest thing, a confirmation of the existence of the App Store team. Care to take a wild guess what they’re building?Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division provided a list with some ... |
18 August 2011
03:05 GMT |
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Windows 8 reimagines Windows - this has to be the new mantra of the next generation of the operating system, although Microsoft has yet to unveil the evolution of its Windows platform. Still, Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division and his team are hard at work reimagining Windows from chips to... |
16 August 2011
12:31 GMT |
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June 2011 brought with it the first public preview of Windows 8, but also the promise that the conversation around the next major iteration of Windows would follow the “Engineering Windows 7” dialog model. At the start of this week Microsoft launched the “Building Windows 8” blog or “B8... |
16 August 2011
08:01 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up to broaden the pool of early adopters that have been testing Windows 8. A pre-release development milestone of Windows 8 will be made available to more testers than ever before in the next few months, Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division confirmed at the start of this... |
16 August 2011
02:36 GMT |
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The fact that Windows 8 is planned for launch sometime within three years of the launch of Windows 7 doesn’t necessarily represent something new for the public. After all, even with Windows Vista’s release, Microsoft top executives, including Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer made it clear that a 5 t... |
9 June 2011
12:01 GMT |
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The recent details on Windows 8 that Microsoft shared with the world can be considered only the start of the conversation focused on the next major iteration of the Windows client. At D9 and Computex, the software giant unveiled the new NUI + GUI marriage for the Windows 8 flavor tailored to next generation form fac... |
6 June 2011
05:57 GMT |
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Unless you live under a rock you might have heard that Microsoft made public the first official preview of Windows 8, the next major iteration of the Windows client, and the successor of Windows 7. This happened at two events, one at the D9 and the other at Computex. The Redmond company also made available a video, ... |
2 June 2011
13:01 GMT |
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New details about the next iteration of the Windows client might be just around the corner, in fact, they could be shared with the world as soon as next week.Earlier this week, the presence of Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division was confirmed for the D9 Conference which takes place in Ranch... |
25 May 2011
10:36 GMT |
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The MIX11 day one keynote is now available on-demand for those that were unable to participate as well as for the users which missed it when it was streamed live.
Dean Hachamovitch, Corporate Vice President, Internet Explorer; Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President, .NET Developer Platform; and Steven Sinofsky,... |
13 April 2011
07:01 GMT |
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The first demonstration of Windows 8 is bound to have been a bittersweet moment for many. Those that remember the first sneak peek at Windows 7, undoubtedly also recall a similar feeling. Back in May 2008, Microsoft demoed the new multi-touch capabilities of Windows 7, giving a taste of the platform’s Natural ... |
7 January 2011
10:56 GMT |
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While with Windows 7 Microsoft did not need a repeat of Windows Vista, the same is not valid for Windows 8 and its predecessor. Essentially, the Redmond company needs Windows 8, the next major iteration of Windows to fall as close as possible to the Windows 7 tree. Windows 8 needs to be a repeat of Windows 7, at leas... |
2 August 2010
11:05 GMT |
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There’s a very important reason why Microsoft is keeping mum on the evolution of Windows, since Steven Sinofsky, now President, Windows and Windows Live Division, took the helm of the Windows project in the post-Vista era. And it has to do with Microsoft’s communication strategy for codename Longhorn. Und... |
6 July 2010
11:16 GMT |
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In a recent interview, Steven Sinofsky, president, Windows and Windows Live Division noted that there simply was no way of telling how Microsoft would be able to outdo Windows 7 with the forthcoming Windows 8. And yet, a Program Manager on the Windows team, working on Windows Update, published a blog post in which he... |
12 February 2010
12:18 GMT |
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Windows 7 is a smashing success according to Microsoft, whose statistics indicate that the operating system sold in excess of 60 million licenses since General Availability in October 22nd, 2009. At the same time, Microsoft is shifting its focus on the next iteration of the Windows client, which, according to the Red... |
1 February 2010
11:34 GMT |
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There’s no doubt that Windows 8 planning is in full swing, and has been in fact for the most part of 2009, but additional aspects of Windows 7’s successor are less clear, as whether actual coding has kicked off, and then some details are down-right unknown even to Microsoft, such as a specific general av... |
6 January 2010
11:00 GMT |
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As Windows 7 is getting closer to its launch day, more and more eyes are turning towards it. Compatibility, security or stability issues are hunted down by Microsoft and testers around the world, so that none slips in the final version. One possible bug has been recently spotted, labeled as “major” by its... |
6 August 2009
05:07 GMT |
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On July 22nd, 2009, Microsoft released to manufacturing both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. In precisely three months since the RTM, Windows 7 will become generally available to consumers worldwide. The software giant has been quiet on the development process of the next iteration of the Windows client as the ... |
23 July 2009
12:58 GMT |
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Microsoft has upgraded one of the bosses of the Windows 7 development project to a new position of Windows Division President. Steven Sinofsky, formerly senior vice president, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, who has been leading the engineering process of Windows 7 together with Bill Veghte, senior vice p... |
9 July 2009
06:37 GMT |
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According to Microsoft, Windows 7 Beta is officially nothing short of a recently published download. Fact is that, while the public release of the first fully-fledged Beta for Windows 7 is yet to go live, the Beta bits have been offered via MSDN and TechNet since December 2008, and also leaked and made available for ... |
6 January 2009
03:46 GMT |
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In the sense in which Microsoft is building Windows 7 as the evolution of Windows Vista, the next iteration of the Windows client will perform as if on steroids, compared to its precursor. Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, along with Michael Fortin, one of Microsoft&r... |
17 December 2008
15:01 GMT |
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At the start of this week Microsoft revealed that for the next iteration of the Windows client, the codename, product number and official label would be one and the same: Windows 7. At the same time, Mike Nash, corporate vice president, Windows Product Management, indicated that the Windows 7 moniker would have no im... |
17 October 2008
16:41 GMT |
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The Windows 7 desktop and graphical user interface are right on track to delivering an evolution compared to Windows Vista, and in this context, provide a high degree of customization and flexibility, superior to what is available with the successor of Windows XP. But at the same time, Microsoft is not going to satis... |
6 October 2008
12:18 GMT |
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Microsoft is preparing Windows 7 to boldly go... where previous editions of Windows have gone before, especially Vista. And in this context, the Redmond giant will perpetuate a model that has been criticized, namely continuing to support legacy software and hardware products with the next iteration of the Windows cli... |
19 September 2008
11:14 GMT |
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Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system? And, if so, what solution/platform will be THE Windows killer? It's not like candidates are in short supply. From the Google Browser (Chrome) to Linux, Mac OS X, to RIA platforms, to dedicated thin ... |
13 September 2008
07:14 GMT |
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Attempting to avoid the rather sluggish experience that has become inherently associated with Windows Vista RTM, Microsoft promised, through the voice of Steven Sinofsky, that Windows 7 would not set a single “bit” out of Redmond until it would meet a set of performance criteria. The Senior Vice Pres... |
29 August 2008
11:25 GMT |
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Service Pack 1 was nothing short of a panacea for Windows Vista, and in this context it now falls on Windows 7 to wash away all the sins of the current version of Windows. Vista RTM managed to hit a consistent amount of speed-bumps from software and hardware incompatibility to lack of support and to poor performance.... |
28 August 2008
13:34 GMT |
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Even if it is virtually Windows Vista at the core, or at least an evolved form of Vista, Windows 7 is being artificially dissociated from its precursor. At the start of August 2008, Microsoft finally put an end to the deafening silence surrounding the Windows 7 project, and started actually communicating bits and pie... |
25 August 2008
14:56 GMT |
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Former Windows chief Jim Allchin, co-president, Platforms & Services Division, considered Windows XP SP2 the equivalent of a fully fledged Windows release, but certainly much more than a service pack. Allchin retired from Microsoft just as Windows Vista hit the shelves in January 2007, and there are no doubts that th... |
21 August 2008
04:03 GMT |
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There is not one single cohesive group building Windows 7, the successor of Windows Vista, revealed Senior Vice President Steven Sinofsky, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group. Instead, the engineering entity is made up of no less than 25 different teams, each hammering away at one specific segment of the next ... |
19 August 2008
11:16 GMT |
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Microsoft has been tiptoeing around Windows 7 since Windows Vista hit the market back in January 2007. Kevin Kutz, Director, Windows Client, came out back on February 13, 2007, just two weeks after Vista's general availability and stated that Microsoft was "not giving official guidance to the public yet about th... |
16 August 2008
07:18 GMT |
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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, Micr... |
15 August 2008
12:06 GMT |
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Believe it or not, the successor of Windows Vista is starting to become palpable. The first signs of life as far as Windows 7 is concerned were delivered in December 2007 with the release of the Milestone 1 Build of the operating system. Since then, with the exception of the crumbs from the Windows 7 feast that slipp... |
15 August 2008
03:37 GMT |
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Windows 7, the successor of Windows Vista, but also of Windows Server 2008, in the form of Windows 7 Server, had been under development over at Microsoft under the lead of Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group since 2007. At the end of 2007, the Redmond company made availa... |
4 July 2008
12:56 GMT |
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Since Bill Gates has officially finished his transition out of the day-to-day role as Microsoft Chairman with the Redmond company, he won't be around full time when Windows 7 comes out, but this aspect has failed to stop him from revealing that the Windows team is doing amazing things with the successor of Windo... |
1 July 2008
07:56 GMT |
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Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP. Even though Service Pack 3 for XP has only been available for a few months, almost two in fact, today, June 30, 2008, is the last day when Microsoft will allow retailers and OEMs t... |
30 June 2008
13:11 GMT |
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Windows Vista is an operating system defining of how Microsoft will shape Windows 7. According to Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, the way to Windows 7 started from Windows Vista and went on to also integrate the evolution delivered with Windows Server 2008. In this ... |
27 May 2008
09:59 GMT |
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In case there were any more doubts left, the Windows boss himself, Steven Sinofsky has come out and re-confirmed what was by now nothing more than common level, the fact that Windows 7 would drop by the end of January 2010. Microsoft is looking at a three year development timetable for the next iteration of Windows, ... |
27 May 2008
08:12 GMT |
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If there is any doubt in you mind, Microsoft confirmed that it is WORKING on the next iteration of Windows, that will succeed Windows Vista. Windows 7... Yes, Windows Vista was number six. And yes, the next Windows iteration after Windows 7 will be... (are you ready for this?) Windows 8. This because of the product r... |
30 January 2008
06:41 GMT |
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Introducing... Windows 7, codename Translucency, Milestone Sinofsky... After a diluvian leak of Windows 7 information, from intimate details to screenshots and videos, Microsoft has finally managed to talk Windows 7. The Redmond company has been hard at work on the next version of the Windows Operating system, as soo... |
28 January 2008
05:52 GMT |
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Whether Microsoft likes it or not, the truth is that the Windows 7 genie is out of the bottle. For the Redmond company, there are two viable options at this point, to either attempt sweeping Windows 7 under the rug, or to completely ignore the operating system. This because bringing Windows 7 to center stage and taki... |
25 January 2008
08:29 GMT |
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Just as Windows 7 will succeed Windows Vista, so will Office 14 be the next version of the Office System, designed to replace Office 2007. And just as Windows 7 is a product version rather than a codename, the same is the case for Office 14. Both product version references are an integer part of the product numbers v... |
21 January 2008
10:54 GMT |
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As far as Microsoft is concerned, mum's the word when it comes down to Windows 7. And this scenario was synchronized to perfection with the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas. CES is traditionally a unique landmark in the global technology landscape, and as far as Microsoft is concerned, ... |
9 January 2008
11:06 GMT |
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Believe it of not but Microsoft is cooking some "great stuff" for Windows Live. Now, the term could not have been more general and abstract, but the fact of the matter is that it comprises all the information the Redmond company is willing to share about the future of its cloud suite of products and services. As is t... |
22 November 2007
07:05 GMT |
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Windows 7 will be a complete tabula rasa in terms of the evolution from Windows Vista, but at the same time it will not be positioned as a repeat of its predecessor. With the upcoming version of the Windows client, Microsoft indeed needs to diverge from the mistakes it has made with Vista. And strong signals in this ... |
15 November 2007
12:23 GMT |
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