Windows 7

Thanks Emil for pointing out that the Windows 7 Engineering blog has gone live.
Its authors include Steven Sinofsky is in charge of the Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group and Jon DeVaan heads the Windows Core Operating System Division. There have been 2 posts on the blog and they don’t include any useful info.

In parallel with the Windows 7 client, the successor of Windows Vista, Microsoft is also building the next iteration of the Windows server operating system. Windows 7 Server will follow Windows Server 2008 R2, but Microsoft has failed to deliver a timetable for the release so far. Still, while revealing close to no information at all about Windows 7 Server, Microsoft is planning to put together what it referred to as highly available/scalable services for the operating system.

While working its way toward launching the official Windows 7 Blog, Microsoft is getting ready to share more and more information on the next iteration of the Windows operating system.

Don’t worry Windows 95 Plus! enthusiasts, Microsoft hasn’t forgotten about you and your themes. A recently updated MSDN Library document shows that Microsoft hasn’t just brushed themes under the carpet, but instead dusted it off, added some new polish and is even putting it under the spotlight.

When it was made available in November 2006 and in January 2007, Windows Vista brought to the table a plethora of editions, some of which will survive with the next iterations of the Windows client.But one SKU that was officially confirmed by Microsoft for Windows 7, and even Windows 8, is Enterprise. Out of all the editions of the Windows client, Enterprise is available only to a select crowd of users, namely volume license customers, who also own Software Assurance.

Windows 7 is bound to trip over Mac OS X Snow Leopard, even if just a little bit, at the rate that Apple is growing, making consistent inroads into the computer market. Mac OS X Leopard has already managed to take a consistent bite out of the traditional Windows territory, pushing Apple's slice of the operating system market close to 8%, according to data from Net Applications, approximately half of that of Windows Vista.

A few days after the Windows 7 M 1 customization package for Windows Vista , yesterday, i found a Windows 7 M2 customization package, which was as beautiful as the Windows 7 M1 one. However, unlike that one, this package includes wallpapers, theme, logon and boot screen and sound. You may have a try  if you like.

Windows unit head Bill Veghte said on Thursday that Windows 7 development remains on track.The company has officially said it would ship by January 2010, but top executives have also said from time to time that it would be done by the end of 2009."The product is tracking very, very well," Veghte said. "We are committed and looking good, relative to our commitment--(shipping Windows 7) three years from general availability of Windows Vista."

With Windows 7 Milestone 1 released in December 2007, Microsoft managed to give a taste of the user experience that is coming with the successor of Windows Vista.At the same time, since Windows M1 was virtually identical with its predecessor in terms of the graphical user interface, the UX was also similar. But make no mistake about it; as part of the development process of Windows 7, Microsoft is also building the next-generation user experience for Windows.

This is certainly a premiere... Windows 7  has managed to make it on a Microsoft.com home page for the first time.It's an unlikely position for the next iteration of the Windows operating system, which the Redmond company is keeping tight under wraps for now. And even more so as, following the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2008, the past week in Houston, Texas, where the software giant indicated that it was focusing entirely on Windows Vista Service Pack 1.