Archive for July, 2009

Date: July 31st, 2009
Cate: HowTo, Resources

Windows 7 RC Training Kit for Developers

Pike Place Market

The Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos designed to help you learn how to build applications that shine on Windows 7. This training kit is designed to help you learn how to build applications by utilizing key features such as:

  • Taskbar
  • Libraries
  • Multi Touch
  • Sensors and Location
  • Ribbon
  • Trigger Start Services,
  • Instrumentation and ETW
  • Application Compatibility

This kit was developed by Microsoft Developer & Platform Evangelism group together with Sela Software Labs and the content is based on Windows 7 RC providing an early peak to the final training. Download the 43.4 MB kit from here.

 

Date: July 30th, 2009
Cate: Resources

Windows 7 Help & How-to

Help and How-to

Now that Windows 7 has RTM’d, and in coming weeks and months, more and more people would move to Windows 7, Windows 7 Help & How-to site is an essential resource to bookmark for articles and tutorials on Windows 7.

The Microsoft Windows 7 homepage has this recent addition for users to find out ways to get up and running with Windows 7 and to see what the new version of Windows has in store to help make everyday tasks a little bit easier.

Date: July 28th, 2009
Cate: Resources, Videos

*New and Improved* Windows Media Center

The Green Button

 

The Green Button has been Microsoft’s official community based based portal for blogs, articles, and forums about Microsoft media based software. The portal has recently been revamped, coincidently with the Windows 7 wave.

If you are keen to have a first look at Windows Media Center in Windows 7, check out the comprehensive review on EngadgetHD.

Date: July 27th, 2009
Cate: Resources

Windows 7 UX Guidelines

Microsoft Surface

The latest revision of Microsoft’s Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines, or the Windows UX guidelines, published June 30 includes updates to many articles to include UX changes and improvements in Windows 7.

"Everything is best for something and worst for something else.
The trick is knowing for what, when, for whom, and why." —Bill Buxton

Though much of the Windows 7 enhancements over Windows Vista have been in the plumbing and in the feature enhancements, there have been powerful improvements in taskbar, jumplists, overlays, progress bars, thumbnail toolbars, etc. that needs appropriate adherence to the guidelines for a better user experience. The guidelines helps establish a high quality and consistency baseline for all Windows-based applications.

The guide is also available for download in PDF format. If you have specific questions, comments, or requests, you can contact the team at winui@microsoft.com.

(Hat tip to Long Zheng)

Date: July 23rd, 2009
Cate: Announcement, Videos
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Windows 7 RTM’d

Windows 7 has officially released to manufacturing (RTM)! Build 7600 has been signed off as RTM.

 

The final few minutes before RTM are a sign-off process where each and every team that contributed to Windows formally commits to having successfully executed the work necessary for the product to be in the release process. We gather one last time (for Windows 7) in the “Ship Room” and a representative from each team signs (literally) and signifies their team’s readiness for manufacturing. We thought we’d share this moment with you here today.

(via the Engineering Windows 7 blog)

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