Windows 7 - Next Generation User Interface
One thing is clear, although starting from the summer of 2007 and ending in the first half of this year, the main focus for Microsoft has been building Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3, in terms of the Windows client the company did much more than just service packs.
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28.5.2008 Windows 7 - Next Generation User Interface
One thing is clear, although starting from the summer of 2007 and ending in the first half of this year, the main focus for Microsoft has been building Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3, in terms of the Windows client the company did much more than just service packs.
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28.5.2008 Next-Generation Windows 7 User Experience
With Windows 7 Milestone 1 released in December 2007, Microsoft managed to give a taste of the user experience that is coming with the successor of Windows Vista.
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18.7.2008 Windows 7 User Interface and Interaction
Windows 7 will undoubtedly take the graphical user interface and the interaction model to the next level not only as far as the Windows client is concerned, but also in terms of the content designed to integrate seamlessly with the operating system.
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11.11.2008 Windows Vista Multilingual User Interface
Multilingual User Interface packs for Windows Vista and Windows XP Professional are not as easy to come by as Microsoft partners and customers would expect. The general presumption seems to be that the MUI packs are available as separate downloads from the Redmond Company
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22.6.2007 The First Look at the IE8 Beta 1 Graphical User Interface
Expect little and you won't be disappointed. This has got to be the rule for Internet Explorer Beta 1.
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3.3.2008 Windows Vista Multilingual User Interface Available for Download
With the introduction of Windows Vista, Microsoft has evolved the MUI architecture, breaking the intimate connection between the language resources for the user interface and the operating system's binary code.
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3.1.2008 Windows 7 User Interface – The Superbar - Enhanced Taskbar
One of the elements of the Windows graphical user interface that is evolving past what end users have come to traditionally associate with it is the Taskbar.
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4.11.2008 Windows Aero Is Old News – Introducing LucidTouch User Interface
If you think that Microsoft's journey into the development of natural user interfaces has stopped with the availability of Surface, then think again. The Redmond company is hard at work in a collaboration with Mitsubishi Research to produce LucidTouch.
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24.8.2007 Microsoft patent app shows off new user interface for mobiles
Just in time to my previous column if the Windows Mobile touchscreen interface is ready for single-hand use, the United States Patent and Trademark Office yesterday unveiled a patent which was given to Microsoft (Application Number: 11/765,684).
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14.10.2007 Life after Aero, Microsoft Cooking Improved User Interface for Windows 7
It might not sound like all that much, but it is a definite confirmation that there is life after Windows Aero. And as far as the scarce details on Windows 7 go, any palpable piece of information goes a long way.
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24.5.2008 Windows 7 Build 6780 M3 and the Fluent/Ribbon User Interface
Windows 7 Build 6780 Milestone 3 represents the first time in the evolution of Windows Vista's successor when Microsoft introduced the Fluent/Ribbon graphical user interface into the operating system.
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17.9.2008 2007 Office System Document: User Interface Evaluation Design Guidelines
This information is provided to assist sofware developers in evaluating the scope of the UI Design Guidelines for the 2007 Microsoft Office suites prior to accepting the Office UI Licensing agreement.
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7.1.2007 Multilingual User Interface (MUI) Packs for Windows Vista SP1 Updated
Starting with April 15, 2008, all the 36 different editions of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 have been available for download, in accordance with all the languages supported by the RTM edition of Microsoft's latest Windows client.
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23.4.2008 Windows 7 RTM Multilingual User Interface MUI Packs Download and Installation
Microsoft has released all 35 language packs as optional updates via Windows Update for Windows 7 RTM. The following language packs are available for download:
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27.8.2009 Windows Server 2008 SP2 RTM Multilingual User Interface Language Packs
On June 30, 2009 Microsoft released not only the remaining localized versions of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 to web and through Windows Update, but also those for Windows Server 2008 SP2.
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6.7.2009 Download new AOL Next-Generation AIM
AOL's next-generation AIM release, known as Triton, is officially out the door and replaces AIM 5.9 as the company's default instant messaging client. Triton aims to bring together text, voice and video chat and has become the veritable front door to AOL's services.
The new release features one-click access to AOL Explorer, Search, AOL and AIM Mail, AIM Talk and the new TotalTalk VoIP calling service. Triton additionally bundles a new AIM Address Book that syncs with Plaxo, and offers built-in access to AOL Radio featuring 20 XM music stations.
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23.11.2005 Windows Live hits second generation
Microsoft is adding photo sharing and Web-based hosted storage to Windows Live on Wednesday, though for now the services will be limited to a few thousand preselected testers.
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27.6.2007 Microsoft publishes report on possible next-generation OS
Singularity is a research project focused on the construction of dependable systems through innovation in the areas of systems, languages, and tools. We building a research operating system prototype (called Singularity), extending programming languages, and developing new techniques and tools for specifying and verifying program behavior.
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Windows 7 on Steroids – Next-Generation Performance Boosters
Yes, the silence around Windows 7 is certainly deafening, disconcerting and certainly a source of frustration for end users, but Microsoft is building the next iteration of Windows.
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20.5.2008 Next-Generation Windows for Supercomputers Technology Preview Available
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are not the only operating systems cooking over at Microsoft. The Redmond company is also building the next-generation Windows platform for supercomputers.
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21.5.2009 Next Generation TCP/IP Stack in Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 1 and Windows Server "Longhorn" Beta 1 include a new implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite known as the Next Generation TCP/IP stack. The TCP/IP protocol stack provided with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 was originally designed in the early 1990s and was modified and enhanced over time to meet the needs of home and enterprise users. The Next Generation TCP/IP stack in Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn" is a complete redesign of TCP/IP functionality for both Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) that meets the connectivity and performance needs of today's varied networking environments and technologies.
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The next generation of Microsoft application building and Web authoring tools
What are these new tools?
The Microsoft Office and Server & Tools teams are proud to announce the introduction of two great new tools for application building and Web authoring in 2006.
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11.4.2006 Office 2007 interface prototypes
Jensen Harris from the Office 2007 design team gave a very rare presentation at Microsoft’s MIX08 event today about not what the Office 2007 Fluent (Ribbon) interface is about, but instead how it came to be and what other concepts they tried.
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13.3.2008 Windows Vista Interface Causes Problems For Consumers
Windows Vista Interface Causes Problems For Consumers, Support Firm Says. Navigating Windows Vista's Aero user interface is a big problem for many consumers learning Microsoft's 6-month-old operating system, a technical support company said Thursday. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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13.7.2007 Microsoft Claims Vista's Aero Interface Doesn't Slow PCs
Running Windows Vista's new Aero graphical interface doesn't impact PC performance, a study sponsored by Microsoft claims.
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2.1.2007 Windows Mobile 7, the Next-Generation Mobile Platform
We all know Microsoft's Windows Mobile platform, if not from using it, at least from what we've heard about it.
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15.3.2009 A Mac user switches to Vista?
Say something critical about Microsoft and Windows and no one bats an eyelash. But write anything even faintly judgmental about the Macintosh and in comes a flood of hate mail from Mac users. The worst part is the tone of most, which generally tend toward religious zealotry. So before I begin, let me begin by saying any e-mails of that type that are sent in response to this story will be deleted, with no reply.
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3.2.2007 Vista's User Account Protection: one click and it's gone
Vista's biggest security enhancement is "User Account Protection" (or "User Account Control" ) which pops up and asks for user authentication before software can make any administrative changes to the system.
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9.9.2006 User paid to uninstall Windows XP
A Sheffield man has won a refund from Dell for not installing Microsoft's Windows XP on a laptop he bought from the PC giant. Freelance programmer Dave Mitchell ordered a Dell laptop on 21 October, and the machine was delivered a few days later.
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15.11.2006Windows Server 2008 Multilingual User Interface Language Packs
Multilingual User Interface Language Packs (Windows Server® Language Packs) enable a multilingual user interface in a Windows Server® 2008
environment. Adding one or more language packs to a Windows Server® 2008 image enables one or more languages in the installed Windows Server®
operating system, allowing corporations to deploy the same Windows Server® 2008 image worldwide while still providing localized user interfaces.
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27.02.2008Update for Office 2003 Multilingual User Interface Pack
This update provides holidays for the Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 calendar when Outlook 2003 is used with a Multilingual User Interface Pack
installed. This update provides holidays for the years 2007 through 2012.
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30.01.2008Intel's Moblin 2.0 beta released
Intel has released the beta version of its Moblin OS 2.0 for Netbooks and Nettops to the public. A lot of work has gone into making a more functional
and visually pleasing user interface, which is reminiscent of HP's Ubuntu based MIE OS originally used on the Mini 1000. Moblin v1.0's user
interface Moblin's new user interface Here is the feature summary as listed in the official announcement: New, visually rich user experience,
optimized for Netbook and Nettops, building on the latest open source graphics technology, such as Clutter, DRI2, and KMS. The user experience is
provided mainly through the toolbar and panels, available at the top of the screen. The m_zone, acting as the 'home screen' panel.
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21.05.2009WindowBlinds 6 Alters Vista Interface
Stardock has released version 6 of its popular WindowBlinds user interface skinning application, which is the first tool that can overhaul the look of
Windows Vista - from the Taskbar to window borders and buttons...
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03.10.200710 Futuristic User Interfaces
Good user interfaces are crucial for good user experience. It doesnt matter how good a technology is if we, designers, dont manage to make user
interface as intuitive and attractive as possible, the technology will hardly reach a breakthrough. To gain the interest in a new product or
technology, users need to understand its advantages or find themselves impressed or involved.
And here is where creative ideas
and unusual interface approaches become important. Innovative doesnt mean usable and usable hardly means innovative. As usual, its necessary to find
an optimal trade-off. And some user interfaces manage to achieve just that...
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18.08.2008Firefox Graphical Keyboard User Interface Mockups
This is a series of mockups,
done by Mozilla UI designer
Alex Faaborg, showing what a
quick-command interface could
look like in Firefox (jumping
between tabs, searching,
tagging); heavily inspired by
the OS X app Quicksilver:
Here are some ideas Ive
had about how several
different Firefox features
could be designed using a
graphical keyboard user
interface. Please note that
these are all only conceptual
mockups, and we currently have
no official plans to implement
these features for Firefox 3
(although, we may at some
point release a prototype
extension through Mozilla
Labs). If you are an extension
developer and are interested
in contributing to a project
like this, please email me or
leave a note in the comments.
All of these mockups
show interfaces that are
entirely keyboard driven. A
keyboard shortcut launches the
UI, and the UI is later
dismissed by either selecting
an item using the arrow keys
and hitting enter, or by
hitting escape. These
interfaces are all modal, and
when invoked they occupy large
amounts of space on the
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07.07.2007Engineering Windows 7: User Account Control
Steven Sinofsky: We promised that this blog would provide a view of Engineering Windows 7 and that means that we would cover the full range of
topicsfrom performance to user interface, technical and non-technical topics, and of course easy topics and controversial topics. This post is about
User Account Control. Our author is Ben Fathi, vice president for core OS development. UAC is a feature that crosses many aspects of the Windows
architecturesecurity, accounts, user interface, design, and so onwe had several other members of the team contribute to the post.
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09.10.2008Microsoft designs the T-Mobile Shadow home UI
Long Zheng: There was a
lot of talk last week
about the
T-Mobile Shadow (a.k.a. HTC
Juno) user interface, some couldn’t believe it was still Windows Mobile. The Shadow sports a new homescreen codenamed “
Neo” designed by Microsoft in collaboration
with HTC and T-Mobile to make the mobile user-experience friendlier. The group at Microsoft responsible for the design is the
Advanced Technology Center (ATC) in Beijing China. It’s a little known
fact they also worked on the user interface for the
Microsoft Surface.
Whilst
most of the news coverage and
reviews about the Shadow talk a lot about the new
interface, there are some less-than-desirable pictures of the interface itself. Which is why I went straight to the source to get some high-resolution
screenshots and concept images of the “Neo” interface. They look so much better than the photos.
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09.11.2007Microsoft: IE8 interface was priority over speed
The user interface was Microsoft's top priority when building its latest version of Internet Explorer, not performance benchmarking, according to a
Microsoft executive.
Stephane Kimmerlin, product marketing director, Windows client business group, Asia-Pacific, Microsoft, said
during a press demonstration of IE8 beta 2 that the browser's important features were user-interface enhancements, aimed at automating some common
actions for users.
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10.09.2008Linus Torvalds switches to GNOME
Approximately two years after Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, stated that the GNOME environment "in striving to be simple, no longer
does what
needs", has made the switch from KDE to GNOME. KDE is a graphical user interface for the Linux/GNU operating system environment, it
is best known for its functionality. Something which Linus once touted "confused" the "idiot" users of GNOME. GNOME is also a graphical user
interface, which is regarded as more minimalistic than KDE. In an interview with Rodney Gedda of NetworkWorld, Linus states that the 4.0 release of
KDE is what really pushed him towards using GNOME. "I used to be a KDE user.
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Why does Explorer show a + sign even if there are no child folders?
Raymond Chen: Mike Williams asked in the Suggestion Box why
Explorer shows a + sign next to a folder even though it doesn't have any children. Mind you, this wasn't a suggestion; it was just a random
question. I don't enjoy answering random questions about specific details of user interface elements since, as it turns out, I did not write every
single user interface element in the system, nor did I attend all of the design meetings.
Some people are under the impression
that as a senior developer that works with the user interface, I naturally attend every single user interface design meeting, even meetings to discuss
things that I am not responsible for. I don't know when these people expect me to get my work done or why I would enjoy going to hundreds of meetings
that have nothing to do with my job. These people probably expect a senior electrical engineer at Boeing to attend all meetings on each of the 777's
electrical systems, even if her responsibility is just the entertainment system.
winbeta.org - 18.02.2008
Apple's iPhone SDK Second Beta Released
Apple took a quiet step forward this afternoon with the launch of the second beta of its iPhone software development kit (SDK). Apple sent an email to
developers in its program informing them that the second beta was available for download on the company's Developer Connection web site.
"The second beta version of the iPhone SDK includes Interface Builder, Xcode IDE, Instruments, iPhone simulator, frameworks and samples, compilers,
and Shark analysis tool," the site reads. Interface Builder is "an application for designing and testing user interfaces. Developers can use
Interface Builder to create user interfaces that follow the Mac OS X human-interface guidelines by dragging user-interface elements from a palette of
predefined controls and dropping them into the window or view they are configuring," according to Apple.
neowin.net - 28.03.2008
Camino Browser for Mac Reaches
1.0
After four years in
development, the Mozilla based
Camino Web browser for Mac OS
X has gone gold with the
release of 1.0. Unlike
Firefox, which employs XUL for
its user interface, Camino was
designed from the ground up
using Apple's Aqua interface
and native widgets for
rendering Web sites...
betanews.com - 15.02.2006
New Zune Update
Are you one of the many who snagged an first generation Zune 30GB? Good, the moment you've been waiting for has arrived. All the new features and
interface bumps of your second generation peers are just a click away -- as soon as Microsoft finishes updating the Zune site. Our update lasted just
a few, pain-free minutes. The Zune 2.0 firmware(technically 2.1) is a breathe of relief to user with the original Zune who want a Zune 2, but don't
have the money.
jcxp.net - 13.11.2007
Ubiquity Add-on for Firefox Gets an Update, New Interface
Mozilla's Ubiquity add-on for Firefox, the so-called "command line interface for the web" has been updated. The new release features substantial
interface and speed improvements, and it's an essential update for anyone who considers themselves a web power user.
winbeta.org - 01.01.2009
Lotus Notes Goes Web 2.0
The next generation of the
Lotus Notes client will
integrate with the new range
of Web 2.0-inspired
technologies released with
IBM's social software, dubbed
Lotus Connections.
Lotus regional executive
for Australian and New Zealand
Jonathan Stern said Notes 8
will be released later this
year and have a "radically
improved user interface"
built in the open source
Eclipse framework.
Lotus Connections has
adopted a lot of communication
technologies consumers now
know as "Web 2.0", like RSS
feeds, blogs, and wikis.
Connections is an
integrated suite that pulls
together Profiles, which is
inspired by IBM's BluePages
user directory; Dogear, a
bookmark-sharing application;
Activities, a sophisticated
to-do list; Communities, for
pulling together groups of
users; and Roller, an open
source blog server developed
within the Apache Software
Foundation...
winbeta.org - 21.07.2007
Microsoft Licenses Office "Ribbon"
Microsoft surprised everyone
today by announcing that its
fresh new Office 2007 user
interface, called "Ribbon",
is going to be licensed to
developers out there, free of
charge. This license applies
to all kinds of third party
applications, except one type:
Office 2007 plugins and
extensions.
Apparently, Microsoft made
this choice in an attempt to
boost Office 2007 sales when
it launches by creating an
ecosystem around its new user
interface, since users will
have less difficulty adapting
to the new interface since its
use will be broader.
Although this is a quite
welcome move among developers,
the software giant isn't
quite throwing away the
numerous years of development
of it to its direct
competitors, being especially
strict with open-source
projects.
jcxp.net - 25.11.2006
New "Network Direct" RDMA Interface Available with Windows Server 2008
Phil Pennington: Windows HPC Server 2008 introduces a new low-latency RDMA network API known as "Network Direct". This RDMA interface in
addition to and distinct from the existing "Winsock Direct" interface. The Network Direct interface introduces several advantages over
Winsock Direct including no dependency on the Winsock stack and much lower latency metrics. MS MPI is being developed to take advantage of this
new interface.
This means that Infiniband vendors, for instance, will need to provide HCA Network Direct providers in
addition to (or perhaps instead of) the Winsock Direct providers published previously. Consequently, development is underway by both Microsoft
and partners to enable full support for the entire network stack.
For programmers, the Network Direct API provides a model
similar to the User Mode Driver Framework (UMDF). MS MPI will be the first user-mode application to leverage Network Direct.
winbeta.org - 15.12.2007
Windows Mobile 6.5 brings improved Soft Keys
We earlier saw some leaked screenshots of Windows Mobile 6.5 build 21159 which showed some changes in the user interface. One such improvement was
that of the Windows Media Player This seems to be an improvement of the soft key menus in the Windows Mobile interface. It is best understood when
we compare the old and the new interface That looks like a good improvement as it looks more "touch-friendly" One more thing to note is how the
highlighted items now have a glassy look to them.
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neowin.net - 11.02.2009
Netscape Releases Browser
Theme Kit
With the revival of Netscape
earlier this year, the browser
has faced one major area of
criticism: it's design. While
the green user interface is
meant to resemble the Netscape
of old, critics of said
Netscape 8 looks graphically
bloated. In response, Netscape
has launched a new Web site
for user-created themes...
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