Windows 7 blog feeds hints about what it may offer

Posted August 15, 2008 at 11:59 AM by Jodie Andrefski

Section: Computers, Software / Applications

Remaining somewhat elusive thus far, Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft engineering managers of the new Engineering Windows 7 (E7) are writing a blog to “open a line of two-way communication between the Windows 7 engineering team and Windows developers.“  They are offering little bits and pieces of what we might expect in Windows 7, but to be expected; they aren’t willing to jump out on a limb and divulge to much information on the chance that what they advertise doesn’t come to fruition. (Something we’ve seen happen in the past from Microsoft).

However, in a blog post yesterday, Microsoft said it will finally give developers their first in-depth look at Windows 7 at its forthcoming Professional Developers Conference (PDC) which is held October 26-29, and the annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) the following week, both of which will be held in Los Angeles. The blog states that they will offer over the next two to three months “behind the scenes development” scoops of the release of E7, and will continue after the release.  The expected availability of the OS at this point is slated for early 2010.

So far, what they have said about E7 is that it will have touchscreen features, and it would have technology that would include linking its Windows Live services right to the OS. Hints were also thrown out that it would include native virtualization technology.

So far though, the blog site reads more like a users manual than an actual blog. It doesn’t seem written in any kind of personal “this is what we’re doing…this is what is working…this is what really didn’t” sort of way. Regardless, it may be interesting to keep an eye on it to see what is on the horizon for the new OS, no matter how stick-in-the-butt they phrase it.

Read [CNET]