Microsoft offers new blog to help people understand what is in Windows 7, the successor to Vista, and starting some excellent community outreach. For windows fanboys this is a must read, for everyone else, well tread at your own risk. These are for windows fanboys, so if you go in talking about Linux and how much it rocks, well you know what is going to happen here.

This is one of the better ideas coming out of Microsoft lately, as anything that brings in the outside audience into the development of the new operating system is going to be a good thing. In reality, they need to do this since Channel 9 has pretty much fallen off the radar of many people since Robert Scoble left the show, it just has not been the same without a public on the radar personality to help drive attention to the site. The Engineering Windows 7 blog should go a long way in helping raise awareness, as long as they keep it up. There are a lot of abandoned blogs across the MSDN/TechNet spaces, which makes it harder to know what is happening with a technology.

The audience of enthusiasts, bloggers, and those that are the most passionate about Windows represent the folks we are dedicating this blog to. With this blog we’re opening up a two-way discussion about how we are making Windows 7. Windows has all the challenges of every large scale software project-picking features, designing them, developing them, and delivering them with high quality. Windows has an added challenge of doing so for an extraordinarily diverse set of customers. As a team and as individuals on the team we continue to be humbled by this responsibility. Source: E7 Blog

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