Microsoft Launches Windows 7 Development Blog

The folks down there in Redmond have gone ahead and released themselves a new blog, this time focusing on Windows 7 development. There’s only a single introduction post right now, but they note their goal to fill us in on all upcoming Windows 7-related happenings. Since ‘7’ has been in development since even before Vista’s launch, they no doubt have a lot to say.

They further note that two upcoming events, Professional Developers Conference and Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), will be the first venues where in-depth Windows 7 technical detail will be released, so at that time we should be learning a lot more about what to expect from the upcoming operating system, which is still tentatively dated for release in early 2010.

I’m sure I’m not alone in being skeptical about the future release, because Vista wasn’t exactly the ideal launch Microsoft would have hoped it’d be. How they plan to clean up that mess and release a new OS that’s not to make the same mistakes is going to be interesting, especially with a release date that’s in reality, not that far off.

The audience of enthusiasts, bloggers, and those that are the most passionate about Windows represent the folks we are dedicating this blog to. With this blog we’re opening up a two-way discussion about how we are making Windows 7. Windows has all the challenges of every large scale software project-picking features, designing them, developing them, and delivering them with high quality.