A little story about feature build labs
After the reset of Longhorn, which became Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced virtual build labs (vbl) which were replaced by feature build labs (fbl) in Windows 7. Every team working on Windows has its own feature build lab (e.g. fbl_shell, fbl_multimedia, fbl_powershell, fbl_wdk, fbl_tools, fbl_dev, etc. — there are plenty of fbl’s). The fbl’s (feature build labs) are unstable development branches [...]
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Metro Icon Pack — Windows Phone 7 icons
This is a package containing 130 icons from Metro, the interface of Windows Phone 7 series. A preview of Windows Phone 7 has been shown at the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona; it is not 100% sure whether these icons will appear in the final version of Windows Phone 7, but probably they will. You are free to use [...]
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A couple of Microsoft terms and acronyms explained.
Here is a list with some common terms and acronyms used for pre-release builds of Windows, Updates or which are used during the development process of software. BBT Binary Profile Feedback Optimization framework (Basic Block Tools (BBT)): BBT is a suite of optimization tools designed to help reduce the working-set requirements for a Win32 application by applying advanced static analysis [...]
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Windows Server code name “Vail” / “Aurora” – What do we know so far?
Windows Server code name “Vail” Windows Server code name “Vail” is the name for the upcoming version of Windows Home Server. It will be based on top of Windows Server 2008 R2 and feature a complete new server console (now called Dashboard). A preview version of “Vail” (ctp4, community technology preview 4) with the buildtag 6.1.7360.0 (hsbs_ids.091210-1540) leaked to the [...]
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