Demystifying Windows 7 Practice

On the afternoon of April 17, 2009, American Bill Veghte was chatting with several Chinese media reporters in a club with a strong garden feature in Hangzhou, China. The fatigue of getting off the plane did not reduce the senior vice senior of Microsoft. The president has a strong interest in the city of Jiangnan.

Bill Veghte has a Dell notebook in front of it. On the screen, the logo of Windows7 is beating vigorously. It seems to insist on jumping out of the whole screen. It is a small screen. Around the world, this traditional blue and white logo is eager to try and appear in front of everyone.

Outside the window, the garden view of Hangzhou in April is beautiful and pleasant, but Bill Veghte— — The top person in charge of the Windows 7 R&D project knows very well that the environment facing Windows 7 is not as fascinating as the scenery outside the window:

The longest-lived Windows XP officially stops technical support, causing dissatisfaction among many users; Windows Vista has been controversial, causing people to cast doubt on Windows7; the global financial crisis broke out, The upgrade time for enterprises and PCs is pushed back …… all this makes Windows7 more challenging than any previous Microsoft operating system.

Windows7 R&D from a few years ago At the time of the official launch of the project, the mission of this operating system has been destined: to continue Microsoft's dominance in the mobile Internet era, and eventually fill every corner of the world from the Hangzhou Garden Hall in China to the Microsoft Building in Seattle, USA.

“Gemini” finalize>7”plan

When is Windows7 officially confirmed? Microsoft’s official statement was that three years ago, Bill Veghte’s answer was a few years ago. Ready. Then, let time return to January 2007.

One day in January 2007, Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Seattle, USA, numerous conferences and conferences held or ended in more than 110 office buildings These meetings will be held at Microsoft headquarters every day, but one of the strategic meetings is extremely unusual. Microsoft chief software designer Bill · Gates and CEO Steve · Ballmer officially finalized Microsoft A generation of operating system development plans, the internal code is "Windows7"; at this time, Microsoft's latest version of Windows Vista is less than half a year after its global listing.

Bill Veghte is very impressed because Windows7 will It is Bill · the first version of Gates after retirement, the operating system independently completed by Microsoft technicians.

The establishment of Windows7 development project is extremely low-key, except for the board of directors and related R&D supervisors, no one knows more. This is also a keynote set by Microsoft executives at the strategic meeting. Because the high-profile development in Vista did not bring much benefit to Microsoft, it caused a lot of controversy. Therefore, Bill · Gates and Steve · Ballmer wants to change the high-profile practices of the past, until Windows7 reveals relevant information to the outside world after the initial structure and kernel code is initially formed. This deliberate low-key has led to a high degree of attention to Microsoft throughout 2007. The US media has almost no complete understanding of Windows7, and the outside world rarely knows the overall situation of Microsoft Windows 7.

Although some people speculate that it is Vista. Ballmer, who was tempted by the temper, was dissatisfied. The Windows R&D department had to come up with the next-generation operating system development plan and enter the market before 2010. But in fact, the Windows 7 development plan is on Windows Vista. At the time of its launch, it has already been on the agenda of the Microsoft board of directors.

Windows7 and its "cultivators"

At the end of March, Bill Veghte was appointed as the main Windows 7 project. The person in charge, the reason for this appointment is Bill Veghte's rich experience at Microsoft. In the past 19 years, he has been involved in various Windows product categories, including Windows 2003, Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and the first generation of Office products. Development work. Next, Steven ·, senior vice president of Windows and Windows Live, became the director of desktop development for the project, and this person at Microsoft launched a new Office product every 18 months. Famous; another senior Microsoft official, Jon · Devine, who became the head of kernel development.

The Windows 7 development team encountered the first directional problem: it was a new code. Is the use of Vista code?

The use of new development code will naturally bring a revolutionary opportunity to Windows7, which will have a greater impact, but the risk is great. And the lessons of Vista are profound: due to adoption New development code, Vista exposed a lot of compatibility issues, bringing no small trouble.

Sinowski, who has senior development experience within Microsoft, publicly stated that the Windows7 system kernel, including the underlying code base and Vista Consistent, it helps all devices and programs running on the system to have good compatibility, which is very important for Windows 7.

Finally, the R&D directors of various departments agree that the changes in Windows7 should be more Functionally, experience, and the basic compatibility should be based on stability, and decided to continue to use Vista's development code, also confirmed that the Windows7 kernel version number is 6.1 (Vista is 6.0), which is related to Windows XP (NT 5.1) The relationship with Windows 2000 (NT5.0) is the same.

Bill Veghte's second task is to mobilize the largest technical team in Microsoft history to participate in the Windows 7 project.

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