Building Windows 8
An inside look from the Windows engineering team
Signing in with a picture password
Picture password is a new way to sign in to Windows 8 that is currently in the Developer Preview....
Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 12/16/2011
Windows Store event and blog
Today at our Windows Store Preview event in San Francisco, Antoine Leblond revealed the business...
Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 12/06/2011
Enabling large disks and large sectors in Windows 8
One of the most basic services provided by an OS is the file system, and Windows has one of the most...
Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 11/29/2011
Improving the setup experience
Installing Windows is a complex operation that provides an incredibly unique capability—the ability...
Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 11/21/2011
Using Task Manager with 64+ logical processors
Ryan Haveson, a group program manager on the User Experience team, wanted to update folks on some...
Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 10/27/2011
Protecting the pre-OS environment with UEFI
There have been some comments about how Microsoft implemented secure boot and unfortunately these...
Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 09/22/2011
Protecting you from malware
One of the things we talk quite a bit about with Windows 8 is making sure Windows is a safe, secure,...
Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 09/15/2011
Best place to discuss Windows 8
I wanted to offer a pointer to the best place to have discussions about Windows 8. Please head over...
Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 09/14/2011
Experiencing Windows 8 touch on Windows 7 hardware
As many no doubt know by now, we've released a Developer Preview of Windows 8. This is a build of...
Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 09/13/2011
Delivering fast boot times in Windows 8
When it comes to talking about "fundamentals" we want to start with boot time – no feature...
Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 09/08/2011
Bringing Hyper-V to “Windows 8”
In this post we talk about how we will support virtualization on the Windows "client" OS....
Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 09/07/2011
Accessing data in ISO and VHD files
In continuing with the improvements in core Windows functionality and also oft-requested features,...
Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 08/30/2011
Improvements in Windows Explorer
Windows Explorer is a foundation of the user experience of the Windows desktop and has undergone...
Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 08/29/2011
Designing the Windows 8 file name collision experience
Thank you so much for all the comments about our work to improve file management basics. We’ve been...
Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 08/26/2011
Improving our file management basics: copy, move, rename, and delete
We wanted to do an early Windows 8 post about one of the most used features, and one we have not...
Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 08/23/2011
Building robust USB 3.0 support
One of the important roles Windows plays as part of a broad ecosystem is developing support for new...
Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 08/22/2011
Introducing the team
Thanks for the comments and the flood of email we received (and to the number of folks now following...
Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 08/17/2011
About this blog and your comments
Thank you very much for the warm reception. It is humbling to see the amount of interest and...
Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 08/17/2011
Welcome to Building Windows 8
Building the next release of Microsoft Windows is an industry-wide effort that Microsoft approaches...
Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 08/15/2011