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  One of the key things that we focused on for Windows Vista was improving the experience for mobile (laptop) users. If you are like me, you spend quite a bit of time running around with a laptop. However, when I am in my office, I tend to use my desktop. Read More... Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 2:05 PM from Windows Vista Team Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Windows Vista, Jim Allchin, Featured News

• Nostalgia and Innovation

  During the fall of 2006 as we were completing the final release of Windows Vista, I was getting a lot of questions about how Windows Vista compared to the original vision of Windows Longhorn. I had someone on my team go back and look at the feature set Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 24, 2007 4:34 PM from Windows Vista Team Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Windows Vista, Jim Allchin, Featured News

• Security Features vs. Convenience

  One of the most basic conundrums in computer security is the constant trade-off between security and usability. At the end of the day, if security is too complicated to use, then it simply won't be used. Even if a feature offers a good level of security Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2007 5:32 PM from Windows Vista Team Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Windows Vista, Jim Allchin, Security, Featured News

• Working with Data with Windows Vista

  One of the interesting things about the release of a major version upgrade like Windows Vista is that there are so many new features, that it might take you a while to discover all of the deep capabilities built into the product. Some features you will Read More... Posted Saturday, January 06, 2007 2:03 PM from Windows Vista Team Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Windows Vista, Jim Allchin, Featured News, Desktop Search

• Building a More Intelligent Windows

  Many people share the dream that the various electronic devices they use should do what they want without them having to ask. In our non-computer lives, we have come to expect basic things to just happen. We expect machines to help us by doing more things Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 03, 2007 5:34 PM from Windows Vista Team Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Windows Vista, User Experience, Jim Allchin, Featured News

• Windows Vista and protection from malware

  On November 30, Sophos issued its monthly report on the top ten threats reported to them in November of 2006. As a part of this, Sophos also studied Windows Vista's vulnerability to these malware threats. I found the information and press discussion confusing, Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 19, 2006 7:55 PM from Windows Vista Team Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Windows Vista, Jim Allchin, Security, Featured News

• Multi-Version Investments in Group Policy

  Anyone who has ever heard me give a talk about Windows Vista (even back when it was called Windows Longhorn) knows that I usually mention that Windows Vista is the first version of Windows since Windows 95 that truly has something for everyone, including Read More... Posted Friday, December 15, 2006 12:40 AM from Windows Vista Team Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Windows Vista, Jim Allchin, Business Deployment, Featured News, Group Policy

• Setting The Record Straight

  As part of one of Microsoft's on-going lawsuits, a piece of email that I sent to Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates recently became public. It was a rant encouraging a change to the way we were building Windows at the time. In the email, I made a comment for Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 12, 2006 12:27 AM from Windows Vista Team Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Windows Vista, Jim Allchin

• Windows Vista Power Management

  The hardware that makes up today’s laptops has gotten quite efficient and we have worked hard to improve Windows' ability to manage that hardware. One of the biggest improvements in the mobile PC experience for Windows since the early 1990 is longer battery Read More... Posted Friday, December 08, 2006 4:50 PM from Windows Vista Team Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Windows Vista, Jim Allchin, Featured News, Power Management

• Audio Improvements in Windows Vista

  A few weeks ago I wrote about the new sounds of Windows Vista and I made the point that sound is an important component of your experience using a Windows PC. As important as the new sounds are as an interface to the Windows UI, of equal importance is Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 06, 2006 6:10 PM from Windows Vista Team Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Windows Vista, Audio, Jim Allchin, Featured News

• Windows Recovery Environment

  Anyone who has called a customer support number recently has most likely heard the recorded message "To help us improve our quality of service this call may be recorded or monitored." When you call Microsoft Customer Support, one of the reasons that you Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 05, 2006 1:01 PM from Windows Vista Team Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Windows Vista, Jim Allchin, Featured News, quality, Windows Recovery Environment

• Windows ReadyBoost

  If there is one thing that can really help applications on Windows Vista run better, it's memory. When comparing the performance of Windows XP and Windows Vista on a PC with 1 GB of main memory, Windows Vista is generally comparable to Windows XP or faster. Read More... Posted Monday, November 20, 2006 8:14 PM from Windows Vista Team Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Windows Vista, Jim Allchin, Featured News, ReadyBoost

• Updating a Brand-New Product

  Now that Windows Vista has released to manufacturing, you might think that there is no opportunity for the product to get better before you get to use it. Pre-Internet and before Windows Update, that was generally the case. But things are different today. Read More... Posted Friday, November 17, 2006 7:49 PM from Windows Vista Team Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Windows Vista, Jim Allchin, Featured News, Windows Update

• Improvements in Updating

  One of the things that I have been focused on for many years is the ability to update a Windows PC with the latest software to make the system run great and help keep it secure. While automation has really always been my core dream, we had to start someplace, Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 7:41 PM from Windows Vista Team Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Windows Vista, Jim Allchin, Featured News, Windows Update

• Windows Vista: Defense in depth

  Wow, you describe a specific situation and suddenly people extrapolate something completely different! During a recent discussion with journalists about the release to manufacturing for Windows Vista, I made a comment about how attacks on the Internet Read More... Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 5:41 PM from Windows Vista Team Blog | (Comments Off) Filed under: Windows Vista, Jim Allchin, Security, Featured News