{"id":161,"date":"2008-10-23T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/10\/23\/engineering-windows-7\/"},"modified":"2008-10-23T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T10:37:00","slug":"engineering-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/10\/23\/engineering-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just read through the latest posting over on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/e7\/default.aspx\">Engineering Windows 7 blog<\/a>, this time a follow up post on Desktop Search.&#160; Reading though the posts on there I keep thinking about just how good blogs can be when used properly.<\/p>\n<p>In that blog the product team are able to talk about not only the product itself, but also the &#8216;why&#8217; aspects of the design decisions they&#8217;re making.&#160;&#160; I&#8217;m not sure that&#8217;s ever been visible before outside the usual marketing pitches.&#160; For me it&#8217;s fascinating reading &#8211; but then I am a bit geeky.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been trying hard to increase the visibility and transparency of the design decisions made during work here.&#160; It&#8217;s not always obvious to the customer or end users, and making the reasoning behind your decisions available should make for more open discussions and hopefully a better product and happier customers.&#160; I think there&#8217;s a lot to be learnt from MS and Windows 7 teams approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just read through the latest posting over on the Engineering Windows 7 blog, this time a follow up post on Desktop Search.&#160; Reading though the posts on there I keep thinking about just how good blogs can be when used properly. In that blog the product team are able to talk about not only &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/10\/23\/engineering-windows-7\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Engineering Windows 7&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[15,35,13,179],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-work","tag-blog","tag-enterprise","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-7","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}