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Photos: The "crazy" brainstorms behind Windows 7

And what's that at the bottom of Windows 1.0?

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By Ina Fried

Published: 27 March 2009 15:26 GMT


In a presentation at last week's Mix 09 event in Las Vegas, Microsoft designer Stephan Hoefnagels traced the evolution of the company's new Windows 7 operating system.

"This was a pretty wacky brainstorm that we had early on," Hoefnagels told the crowd. But, he said, it wasn't just a bunch of designers going crazy. Even these early sketches represented a collaboration across the technical and design ranks. "In this brainstorm for instance, all the disciplines were involved...developers, program management, user research. Everybody was coming up with these crazy ideas."

Photo credit: Ina Fried/CNET


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