Back on February 13, 2007, just a few weeks after Windows Vista hit the shelves, Kevin Kutz, director, Windows Client, revealed that Microsoft had started working on the next iteration of the Windows client. At that point in time the Redmond company insisted that it was still in the planning stages of Windows 7, and in fact it wasn't even referring to Windows Vista's successor as Windows 7. However, the software giant had indeed started laboring on the next version of the Windows client, and the Aero Snap feature is an illustrative example in this case.
“We’re back in early 2007, and after we established window management as a potential area of interest, and identified several appealing scenarios, we started with brainstorms to generate ideas. “How can we make window arranging more efficient?” “More direct?” “More fun?” are some of the questions we asked ourselves. This was a multidisciplinary process, with disciplines like design, user research, program management and development involved. All in all there were around a handful of us, certainly less than a dozen, thinking about this space at the time,” revealed Stephan Hoefnagels, a senior UX designer.
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