Revelation of Windows7 cultivation

In the afternoon of April 17, 2009, a very rich garden-style clubhouse in Hangzhou, China, the American Bill Veghte is chatting with several Chinese media reporters, just under the fatigue of the plane has not lowered the Microsoft Senior Vice president of the south of the city's strong interest.

Bill Veghte in front of a Dell notebook, on the screen, the Windows7 logo is beating hard, seems to be determined to jump out of the whole screen. More than a small screen, the traditional blue and white logo is itching to appear in front of everyone in the world.

Outside, the April Hangzhou landscape is beautiful, but Bill veghte--, the Windows7 's top director of research and Development, knew very well that the environment that Windows7 faced was never as fascinating as the scenery outside the window:

The longest life of Windows XP officially stopped technical support, causing a lot of users dissatisfaction; Windows Vista, with great expectations, has been controversial, giving people a skeptical eye for Windows7; The global financial crisis has led to a push to upgrade time for companies and PCs ... All this makes Windows7 more challenging than any previous Microsoft operating system.

The mission of the operating system has been set to begin a few years ago when the WINDOWS7 research and Development project was officially launched: the continuation of Microsoft's dominance in the mobile internet era, culminating in every corner of the world from the Hangzhou Garden Guild in China to the Microsoft Building in Seattle, USA.

"Gemini" to finalize the "7" plan

When was the WINDOWS7 formally developed? Microsoft's official claim is that 3 years ago, Bill Veghte's answer was to start preparing years ago. Then let the time go back to January 2007.

The day of January 2007, at Microsoft headquarters in Seattle, United States, where countless conferences and meetings were held or ended in more than 110 office buildings, each day at Microsoft headquarters, one of the strategic meetings was extremely unusual. Steve Bauer, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Bill Gates and CEO Tacitly finalized Microsoft's next generation operating system development plan, the internal code is "Windows7". This is less than half a year before Microsoft's latest version of Windows Vista is listed globally.

Bill Veghte is impressed by the fact that Windows7 will be the first operating system to be completed by Microsoft technicians, after Bill Gates retires.

The establishment of the Windows7 development project is extremely low-key, with the exception of the board of directors and relevant research and development executives, and no one knows that this is also a keynote set by Microsoft executives at the strategic meeting. Because the high profile of Vista Development did not bring much benefit to Microsoft, it caused a lot of controversy. So Bill Gates and Ballmer all want to change the previous high-profile practice, to Windows7 in the basic structure and the core code after the initial formation of the relevant information to the outside world. This deliberate low-key led to the entire 2007, Microsoft has always insured The U.S. media, which holds a high degree of concern, has little or no complete knowledge of Windows7, and little is known about the overall situation of Microsoft's Windows7.

Despite speculation that Vista's oft-repeated jump was a big disappointment, the Windows Research department had to come up with a development plan for the next-generation operating system ahead of time and market it by 2010. But in fact, Windows7 's development plan is in Windows Vista has been on the agenda of the Microsoft board since it was launched.

Windows7 and its "cultivators"

At the end of March, Bill Veghte was appointed chief executive of the WINDOWS7 project, and the reason for this appointment was the rich experience of Bill Veghte at Microsoft. In the past 19 years, he has been involved in various categories of Windows products, including Windows 2003, Windows3.1, Windows95, and first generation Office products development. Then, senior vice president of Windows and Windows Live, Steven Sinnowski, became the desktop development Director for the project, who at Microsoft " Known for launching a new Office product every 18 months; Another senior Microsoft official, Jon DeVaan, became the kernel development director.

The Windows7 development team encountered the first directional question: Is it a new code, or does it follow Vista code?

The adoption of new development code will naturally revolutionize the Windows7, with greater impact, but with great risk. And Vista's lesson is profound: with the new development code, Vista exposes a lot of compatibility issues that can be a hassle.

Sinofsky, with senior development experience within Microsoft, publicly stated that the WINDOWS7 system kernel, including the underlying code base, is consistent with Vista, and that it is important to Windows7 that all devices and programs running on the system have good compatibility.

Finally, the research and development director of various departments agreed: Windows7 changes should be reflected in the function, experience, and as the basis of the compatibility should be based on stability, the decision to continue to follow the development of Vista code, but also confirmed the Windows7 kernel version number is 6.1 (Vista is 6.0 , which is the same as the relationship between Windows XP (NT 5.1) and Windows NT5.0.

Bill Veghte's second task is to mobilize the largest technical team in Microsoft's history to participate in the WINDOWS7 project.