{"id":1156,"date":"2008-08-15T10:51:43","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T10:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/08\/windows-7-blog-launched.htm"},"modified":"2008-08-15T11:08:56","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T11:08:56","slug":"windows-7-blog-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/08\/windows-7-blog-launched.htm","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 blog launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/07\/windows-7.htm\">a year of speculation about what will, or won&#8217;t, be included in the next version of Windows<\/a>, it looks like Microsoft might be getting ready to tell us a bit more.  Yesterday they launched a new blog called <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/e7\/\">Engineering Windows 7<\/a> (thanks to Dave Saxon for alerting me).  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