My family has been using Windows Media Center as our main DVR for several years now, but it has only been since the dawn of Windows 7 that we’ve really gotten into watching our recorded television shows when we travel. This is thanks to a very cool and...

Today’s an exciting day! We are announcing that more than 240 million licenses of Windows 7 have been sold . Windows 7 is the fastest selling operating system in history. As of September, Windows 7 was running on 93% of new consumer PCs and has over 17...

Federated search enables users to search remote data sources from within Windows Explorer. This means that from within Windows Explorer, you can search those Web sites, feeds, and other structured remote data sources that make themselves searchable with...

Last updated: April 14, 2010 This post is an update to the first Windows 7 Programming Guide – Libraries post. It provides an index to the recent Windows 7 Libraries series, including new relevant Channel 9 videos and links to additional sources of information...

During PDC, I had the amazing opportunity to join a group of remarkable engineers in presenting part of the Windows 7 Boot Camp pre-con event. As I’ve reported live , the event took place on November 16 th , in a room filled with 750 attendees who heard...

A few days ago, we launched the Windows 7 Test Drive site. This site offers developers a chance to get first-hand experience in developing for Windows 7, even if they don’t have Windows 7 installed on their development environment. Using the Windows 7...

During PDC, we announced the availability of a new version of the Windows API Code Pack (version 1.0.1). That same day, I had the pleasure of demo-ing how to use the API Code Pack to build great Windows 7 applications. If you missed the session (or weren...

If you take a look back to the Top 10 Reasons to use Windows Home Server, you can see that I have gone over the majority of these points.  In this post, I am going to share a little more about items 4 and 6: libraries and user accounts. Windows Home...

I am glad to announce that today we shipped a new version of the Windows API Code Pack – version 1.0.1. This is not a major version with a lot of new features, but rather a minor version focused on fixing bugs, improving performance, adding demos and...

Windows 7 is now available to the public and anyone can buy and install Windows 7, whether for a new computer or an existing one. Soon, people from around the world will run your applications on Windows 7. They will expect the application to work and...

The Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is the one event that all developers who use any Microsoft technologies must attend at least once in their professional careers. It’s the flagship event for developers, offering the most comprehensive, future...

Have you ever wondered how Windows 7 resumes from sleep in less than 2 seconds? Or how Windows 7 can scale up to 256 cores? Or maybe you just want to want to learn about any Kernel improvements that will make your application run faster with no extra...

Yesterday Windows 7 completed a major milestone-- release to manufacturing (RTM)! And in three months time – on October 22 nd – Windows 7 will be available for everyone to enjoy. Excitement about the upcoming public release of Windows 7 has been growing...

The Windows Home Server Team has announced today the beta of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 (PP3). And if you’re running Windows 7, Windows Home Server PP3 comes with several new features designed to take advantage key Windows 7 features: Full Image...

Do you want to win a free trip to Los Angeles and a free ticket to PDC 2009? Do you think you have what it takes to win $17,777? Do you think you can write an amazing Windows 7 application? Well, if your answer to any of the above question is "Yes...

This week we released the Windows 7 RC Training Kit for Developers as part of our ongoing effort to give you, all the Windows developers out there, and valuable content to work with while making your application shine on Windows 7. This version of the...

Last updated: June 11, 2009 This post is an index to the recent Windows 7 Libraries series. It includes relevant Channel 9 videos and links to additional relevant sources of information as well as code examples for programming Windows 7 Libraries. Posts...

We are wrapping up our comprehensive drilldown into the Windows 7 Libraries API and architecture with one final post about the managed API for working with Windows 7 Libraries. Previously we talked about: Understanding Windows 7 Libraries , Libraries...

Here is another post in the Windows 7 Libraries post series. So far, we have covered what Windows 7 Libraries are ( Understanding Windows 7 Libraries ), their internal structure, and how they integrate into the Windows Shell ( Libraries Under The Hood...

Note – this post will be updated from time to time, to include new content. Last update: June 13 th (New Sensor, Location and Windows Animation videos) During the past couple of months, we have being working on Windows 7 videos featuring the new...