Steven Sinofsky (President, Microsoft Windows and Windows Live Division) recently launched a blog that will follow the development of Windows 7+1:
Welcome to Building Windows 8 - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/
We've been hard at work designing and building Windows 8, and today we want to begin an open dialog with those of you who will be trying out the pre-release version over the coming months. We intend to post regularly throughout the development of Windows 8, and to focus on the engineering of the product. Welcome to “Building Windows 8,” or as we call it, “B8.”
The blog is written by the team & seeks input from Windows users:
“This blog is 100% authentic “engineer written” and not a marketing or communications effort. We do not have ghost-writers, editors, or any process that attempts to sanitize the words of folks on the team other than some basic copy editing.”
“Everyone on the Windows team will be watching for comments and is looking forward to the dialog. When participating, we will work to make sure Microsoft employees represent themselves as such, especially indicating if they work on the area Windows being discussed. We ask that press (those that write, blog, tweet professionally) identify themselves accordingly as well.”
“Things we hope to see in comments:
- Lots of on-topic, good, interesting thoughts on Windows and the posts on B8
- Focus on the content of the post and not just the topic in general—seek out the details
- Dialog that is respectful and fun”
