Demystifying Windows 7 Cultivation

On the afternoon of April 17, 2009, in a Chinese-style building with a strong garden feature, American Bill Veghte was chatting with several Chinese media reporters. The fatigue of getting off the plane did not decrease. The senior vice president of Microsoft has a strong interest in the city of Jiangnan.

Bill Veghte has a Dell notebook in front of it. On the screen, the logo of Windows7 is beating vigorously, and seems to insist on jumping out of the entire screen. A small screen, around the world, this traditional blue and white logo is eager to try and appear in front of everyone.

Outside the window, the garden view of Hangzhou in April is beautiful and pleasant. But Bill Veghte—— the top person in charge of the Windows 7 R&D project knows very well that the environment facing Windows 7 is not as fascinating as the scenery outside the window:

The longest-lived Windows XP officially stops technical support, causing many users. Dissatisfaction; high-profile Windows Vista has been controversial, causing people to cast doubt on Windows7; the global financial crisis has erupted, leading to enterprises and The upgrade time of the computer is pushed again …… all this makes Windows7 more challenging than any previous Microsoft operating system.

The Windows7 R&D project was officially launched several years ago. At the time, the mission of this operating system has been destined: to continue Microsoft's dominance in the mobile Internet era, and eventually fill every corner of the world from the Hangzhou Garden Hall in China to the Microsoft Building in Seattle, USA.

“ Gemini & rdquo; finalize & ldquo; 7 & rdquo; plan

When is Windows 7 officially determined to develop? Microsoft's official statement is that three years ago, Bill Veghte's answer was to start preparing a few years ago. Then, let time back to January 2007.

One day in January 2007, the United States Seattle's Raymond Microsoft headquarters, numerous conferences and conferences held or ended in more than 110 office buildings, these meetings will be held at Microsoft headquarters every day, but one of the strategic meetings is extremely unusual. By Microsoft Chief Software Designer Bill · Gates and CEO Steve · Ballmer officially finalized Microsoft's next-generation operating system development plan, the internal code is "Windows7". At this time, Microsoft's latest version of Windows Vista is not available worldwide. Half a year.

Bill Veghte is very impressed with this, because Windows 7 will be Bill · the first version of Gates after retirement, the operating system independently completed by Microsoft technicians.

Windows7 Development The establishment of the project is extremely low-key. Apart from the board of directors and relevant R&D supervisors, no one knows more. This is also a keynote set by Microsoft executives at the strategic meeting. Because it is developed in Vista. The high profile did not bring much benefit to Microsoft, but it caused a lot of controversy. Therefore, Bill · Gates and Steve · Ballmer hope to change the high-profile practices of the past, waiting for Windows7 in the basic architecture and After the initial development of the kernel code, the relevant information was revealed to the outside world. This deliberate low-key led to the fact that throughout the year 2007, the US media, which has always maintained a high degree of attention to Microsoft, rarely had a complete understanding of Windows7, and few outsiders knew about Microsoft. The overall situation of Windows7.

Despite speculation that Vista’s repeated whistle caused by the temperament of Ballmer was dissatisfied, the Windows R&D department must come up with the next-generation operating system development plan in advance, and in 2010. Entered the market before the year. But in fact, the Windows 7 development plan has been on the agenda of the Microsoft board of directors when Windows Vista has not yet launched.

Windows7 and its "cultivators" Br>

At the end of March, Bill Veghte was appointed as the main person in charge of the Windows 7 project. The reason for this appointment is the rich experience of Bill Veghte at Microsoft. Over the past 19 years He participated in various categories of Windows products, including Windows 2003, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and the development of first-generation Office products. Then, Steven ·, senior vice president of Windows and Windows Live, Sinanov Became the project's desktop development director, who is known at Microsoft for launching a new Office product every 18 months; another senior Microsoft official, Jon · Devine, who is the head of kernel development.

The Windows 7 development team encountered the first directional problem: Is it new code or is it using Vista code?

Adopting new development code will naturally bring a revolutionary opportunity to Windows 7, which will have a greater impact, but the risk is great. And the lessons of Vista are profound: due to the adoption of new development code, Vista Exposing a lot of compatibility issues, no small trouble.

Sinowski, who has experienced development experience within Microsoft, publicly stated that the Windows 7 system kernel, including the underlying code base, is consistent with Vista. All devices and programs running on the system have good compatibility, which is very important for Windows 7.

Finally, the R&D directors of various departments agree that the changes in Windows7 should be more in terms of functionality and experience. The basic compatibility should be stable, and it is decided to continue to use Vista's development code. It also confirms that the Windows 7 kernel version number is 6.1 (Vista is 6.0), which is related to Windows XP (NT 5.1) and Windows 2000 ( The relationship of NT5.0) is the same.