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Windows 7 General

The Windows 7 team blog is available at windowsteamblog.com.

Microsoft Surface is described at www.microsoft.com/surface.

For a description of the Windows Live clients, see “Putting the ‘Windows’ in Windows Live” on page 18 of the Jan. 2008 Update.

Analysis of UAC’s impact on Windows Vista is available in Ben Fathi’s Dec. 10, 2008, Windows 7 Engineering Blog entry located at blogs.msdn.com/e7.

Windows Live Services are described in “Windows Live Updates Announced” on page 19 of the Dec. 2008 Update.

Windows 7 Developer Issues

PreFast for Drivers is explained at msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa468782.aspx.

Changes to the Windows Driver Verifier for Windows 7 are detailed at www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/tools/Win7DriverVer.mspx.

The Windows 7 Developer Guide, which outlines new features in the OS that developers may want to exploit, is available at code.msdn.microsoft.com/Win7DeveloperGuide.

The Windows 7 Application Quality Cookbook, which has additional information on writing applications for Windows 7, is available at code.msdn.microsoft.com/Windows7AppQuality/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=1734.

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