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Steven Sinofsky, former President of the Windows Division at Microsoft, is prominently featured in discussions about early Windows 8 development. Tagged content highlights his role in announcing key Windows 8 features through the Building Windows 8 blog, including native USB 3.0 support and the official confirmation of a Windows App Store. Sinofsky also introduced the engineering-focused blog to engage with pre-release testers and presented Windows 8 at the D9 conference alongside Julie Larson-Green. These posts reflect his leadership during the formative stages of Windows 8, covering major feature reveals and developer communication.
  1. reghakr

    Microsoft to show tablet version of Windows 8 next week

    Bloomberg is adding fuel to the rumor fires claiming that Microsoft may show off the tablet version of Windows 8 next week at the AllThingsD conference. If and when that happens, here’s what to watch for. Steven Sinofsky, the President of Microsoft’s Windows client division, is slated to take...
  2. whoosh

    Windows 8 leak sites closed down

    There have been a large amount of leaks in the last couple of weeks of screenshots from an early build of Windows 8, notable from websites such as winreview.ru. These leaks have shown us features such as the log-in with your Live ID, the ribbon in Explorer and some of the metro interface...
  3. blackroseMD1

    Windows 7 Sinofsky: Windows 7 RC releases April 10th

    From Neowin: There have been so many dates flying around concerning the upcoming Release Candidate for Windows 7, and it's beginning to become a daily subject in the blogosphere. Just when you thought that we were going to see a Windows 7 RC by the end of February, a trusted source within...
  4. Matt

    Windows 7 Windows 7 Highlights from PDC

    Well, I made a blog post that highlights some of the new features in Windows 7, which were announced today by Steven Sinosky, in his keynote at PDC. I took some pictures, but they didn't come out well from the 300kbps stream, so I found some on flickr, and linked to those instead. Link Removed
  5. G

    Windows Vista Even MS Steve Sinofsky (Windows 7 head) was confused..

    Internal emails at Microsoft released to public ... (By US Court Judge) From: Steven Sinofsky Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 12:05 PM To: Brad Goldberg Subject: vista ready Is it true that Vista Ready doesn't necessarily mean Aero capable? I got a Dell Lattitude that is Vista Ready but...
  6. Matt

    Windows 7 New interface for Windows 7 by the Office team

    The post-Vista edition of Windows doesn't yet have a name, but it's got a date - 2010 - and it's getting a fresh look. If you're wondering what happened to the codenames of Vienna, and before that Blackcomb, which were originally attached to the OS, Windows senior VP Steven Sinofsky has...