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Windows 7: The Development Process
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I apologize it’s been a little while since I’ve posted something of quality. I’ve been super busy with work, preparing for PDC, working on my new website templates myself… lots. Anyway, unless it’s something I feel is worthy to write about, I probably won’t be doing much blogging here on uxevangelist.net until after PDC, so, if you haven’t yet, MAKE SURE YOU ADD MY PDC BLOG TO YOUR FEEDS OR FAVORITES!
Now, back to our regularly scheduled program…
While discussing the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) in a recent Software Assurance presentation, a few mentions of Windows 7 were made. There were 5 Windows 7 related slides out of 50+, but I felt only 3 of them were relatively general enough to post here (even if just for the cool slide backgrounds alone). Check ‘em out (click for full-sized image):
As you can see, these slides have some spiffy backgrounds which, if I’m not mistaking, are going to be included in the PDC build of Windows 7. Other than that, the information in the slides is all fairly self-explanatory but there were some additional points noted that I want to mention:
“With Windows 7 we are taking a new approach to how we build and talk about future Windows products. So we wanted to explain some of our philosophy to you.
Planning: In Windows 7 we are taking more time in the planning phases gathering customer requirements and looking at industry trends—and the end-to-end scenarios that we want to enable.
Predictability: We are committed to providing more predictability for our customers and partners around the timing for the release. We’ve said we will release Windows 7 around 3 years after the general availability of Windows Vista—and we are still on track for that.
Disclosure: Another way that we aim to increase predictability is by having a higher confidence bar before disclosing plans or product details—so customers and partners don’t expect capabilities that may not be in the final product.
Now that we are early in the development phase we are ready to provide enterprise customers with some more information about Windows 7 for enterprises.”
Also mentioned is that Microsoft is still, “…on track to release Windows 7 three years after the general availability of Windows Vista…” and the presenter reassures us that Windows 7 is built on top of the progress made in Vista, so migrating to Windows 7 will be much smoother than migrating from XP to Vista.
More later! I’m off to go work more on getting my agenda together for PDC. Man, that’s going to be one busy week… lol.
-Stephen
