Building Windows 8

An inside look from the Windows engineering team

Updating Windows 8 for General Availability

We are pleased to be releasing a set of improvements to Windows 8 in broad areas of performance,...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 10/09/2012

Updating our built-in apps for Windows 8

We’re super excited to be approaching general availability (GA) of Windows 8 and Windows RT. With...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 10/04/2012

Collaborating to deliver Windows RT PCs

Since RTM on August 1, PC manufacturers have been using the released software to ready new PCs...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 08/13/2012

Releasing Windows 8 - August 1, 2012

Today marks an important milestone in the Windows 8 project. The Windows 8 team is proud to share...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 08/01/2012

Using your feedback to make Narrator work better with touch

Shortly before we released the Windows 8 Consumer Preview in February, we blogged about our work to...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 07/18/2012

Designing the Windows 8 touch keyboard

Starting with the earliest TabletPC enhancements to Windows, we have been working on...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 07/17/2012

Protecting user files with File History

Backing up your critical files is something we all know we should do. Even with everything in...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 07/10/2012

Delivering the Windows 8 Release Preview

Today, Windows 8 Release Preview is available for download in 14 languages. This is our final...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 05/31/2012

Designing for PCs that boot faster than ever before

While we're hard at work making sure you never have to turn off your PC and can run in a connected...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 05/22/2012

Keeping your family safer with Windows 8

One of the intrinsic capabilities of Windows 8 is the ability to use multiple accounts on any PC....

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 05/14/2012

Redesigning chkdsk and the new NTFS health model

We’ve written about tons of improvements in the OS kernel, networking, and file system. While...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 05/09/2012

FAQ - DVD playback and Windows Media Center in Windows 8

We thought we would follow up the previous post with an FAQ which is based on the comments and...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 05/04/2012

Internet Explorer Performance Lab: reliably measuring browser performance

A big part of this blog is going behind the scenes to show you all the work that goes into the...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 02/16/2012

Building the next generation file system for Windows: ReFS

We wanted to continue our dialog about data storage by talking about the next generation file system...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 01/16/2012

Virtualizing storage for scale, resiliency, and efficiency

In this post, we are going to dive into a feature in the Windows 8 Developer Preview. Storage Spaces...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 01/05/2012

Optimizing picture password security

We wanted to talk a bit more about the security of picture passwords in a follow up post based on...

Author: Steven Sinofsky Date: 12/19/2011

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