The IE team at Microsoft has released the 2nd beta Internet Explorer 8. Contrary to the first beta, which was aimed at developers, this one one is aimed at normal people like you and me. The list of new features and changes is decent, all focused around three themes (marketing alert): "We focused our work around three themes: everyday browsing (the things that real people do all the time), safety (the term most people use for what we've called 'trustworthy' in previous posts), and the platform (

The Windows 7 craze is barely over, and yet the internet is already buzzing with the next big thing from Microsoft: a project called Midori. The SD Times claims to have seen internal Microsoft documents detailing what Midori actually is, and they say it's the clean-break from Windows many of us have been waiting for. The SD Times article is heavy on the details, and quite technical, but luckily Ars Technica provides a more accessible summary of what Microsoft has in store for Midori.   via osn

Welcome to Engineering Windows 7   Welcome to our first post on a new blog from Microsoft—the Engineering Windows 7 blog, or E7 for short. E7 is hosted by the two senior engineering managers for the Windows 7 product, Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky. Jon and Steven, along with members of the engineering team will post, comment, and participate in this blog.   Beginning with this post together we are going to start looking forward towards the “Windows 7” project. We know there are tons of ques

what do people think of Windows Vista ? well..... how about what do people think of Windows when it's The Mojave Experiment

more info > http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/06/2...indows_roadmap/

fast cars, sleepless nights, dumpsters, diggers and more (oh and Windows too)   a good intro about how things came together in the early days, worth seeing

Microsoft is busy trying to convince us to use Vista, and rather than have its' userbase wait for Windows 7 it has compiled 5 reasons to deploy Vista (PDF)   well at least it's not a docx !

here's a short video of a first look at Windows 7, it demonstrates the ability of Windows 8 to use touch screen technology in an interactive way...