Windows 7 engineers' blog to say much about nothing

Microsoft will  be more guarded in what it shares with the outside world as its engineers busy themselves working on Windows 7, according to a new Engineering Windows 7 blog created by two senior W7 engineering managers, Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky. The authors say they will post "regularly" but that Microsoft will be "maintaining a little bit more control over the communication around Windows 7." They add: "We ... definitely learned some lessons about 'disclosure' and how we can all too easily get ahead of ourselves in talking about features before our understanding of them is solid." There will be a lot of white space to fill in their blog if they're duty-bound not to say much.

Still, the authors say that the W7 engineering team will provide "in-depth" technical info about the upcoming Windows OS at this fall's Professional Developers Conference on Oct. 27, and at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference the following week. "This blog will provide context over the next 2+ months with regular posts about the behind the scenes development of the release and continue through the release of the product," according to the W7 bloggers.

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