New Windows 7 Logo Design
It seems that the email on “translucency” sent out by Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, back in 2007, got lost in translation on its way to Microsoft China. Remember the leaked images featuring the new Windows 7 boxes?
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20.5.2009 Windows Vista Custom PC Design
Microsoft and Dell recently partnered up to create a super-cool custom PC in celebration of Microsoft releasing Windows Vista to manufacturing earlier this month.
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21.11.2006 The Ultimate Windows Vista Computer Design
Fest your eyes on the Ultimate Windows Vista computer design concept. The image included on the left, as well as the ones at the bottom of this article are a part of the Carbon Design Group’s portfolio.
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17.9.2007 Microsoft: Windows XP Failures Are by Design
Nothing but bad design is responsible for Windows XP failures. The consistent volume of logon failure events in Windows XP, when the operating system is not part of a domain, is generated by the design of the overall log in process.
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12.11.2007 Five-Year-Old Windows Design Flaw Comes Back to Haunt Vista
Windows Vista, Microsoft’s latest operating system, has been continually applauded as an apex of security and an epitome of user protection when it comes down to the Windows platforms available on the market.
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27.11.2007 Lexon Design Roswell Calculator
Let your co-workers have that boring ol? office calculator; you can show off a much cooler space-age version. The cleverly-named Roswell Calculator by Lexon Design has a super-sleek aluminium body with round keypads.
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Microsoft Expression Design Beta 2
Expression Design is a professional illustration and graphic design tool that lets you build compelling elements for both Web and desktop application user interfaces.
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19.3.2007 IE8 RTW Compatibility View Design
The Beta version of Internet Explorer 8 shipped with a big Emulate IE7 button next to the Home button on the Command Bar.
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22.6.2009 Microsoft Demos Graphic Design Tool Suite
Microsoft Corp. Wednesday demonstrated its new toolset aimed at helping software graphic design experts and developers work better together.
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Winner Of Microsoft PC Design Competition Announced
At the CES conference in Las Vegas this week, Microsoft chief Bill Gates announced the winner of the Start Something PC competition.
The main prize of $50,000 was won by Prashant Chandra, an Indian born designer. Chandra's design might best be described as a 'clam-shell' tablet PC, designed around the idea of a backpack.
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8.1.2006 Capture and Edit Screen Shots with All-in-one Design Tool – PicPick
Previously we have mentioned FireShot that works as Firefox and IE extension to let you capture and edit screenshots from web pages easily.
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15.6.2009 Are You Protected? - Design and Deploy Secure Web Apps with ASP.NET 2.0 and IIS 6.0
Web applications are among the most common computing services that are exposed to the Internet, and thus they pose an inviting target to anyone who wants to break into your network to steal sensitive information, tamper with your data, or otherwise compromise your system.
Ensuring the security of a Web application is a serious task, and requires consideration throughout the design, development, deployment, and operation phases. It should not be viewed as something that can be slapped onto an existing application, or achieved simply by applying existing platform security features.
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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 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 – 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
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10.10.2009 Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!
Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft
Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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6.3.2008 Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy
"Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception.
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27.5.2008 Windows Fiji Has RTMd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing.
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18.7.2008 Windows 7 Beta Doesn't Play Nice with Windows Azure Cloud OS Tools
The promise for Windows 7 is that it will deliver an evolution when it will come down to stretching into the Cloud compared to its precursor, Windows Vista.
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16.1.2009 Internet Explorer 8 MUI packs for Windows XP, Windows Server 03
As detailed in our previous blog post, the following Internet Explorer MUI packs shipped today.
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17.5.2009 Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta adds Windows 7 support
Microsoft announced the release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta, along with news that it will feature Windows 7 support.
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20.7.2009 Check for RAM Error or Defect in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem.
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1.10.2009 The Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98 Threat Mitigation Guide
Well, Microsoft still puts effort in old Windows versions...
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31.3.2006 Windows Vista comes with 19,500 drivers on DVD – more on Windows Update
Ever needed to find a driver for a product and wished Windows would either just have the driver in it, or that their Windows Update service could provide it? With Vista, it can – and new features and updates will be forthcoming too. It’s about time!
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20.11.2006Windows 7 From Idea to Feature: A view from Design
Steven Sinofsky: This post is jointly written by Samuel Moreau the manager of the user experience design team for the Windows Experience, Brad Weed,
Director of User Experience Design and Research for Windows and Windows Live, and Julie Larson-Green, the VP of Program Management for the Windows
Experience. With the number of comments that describe a specific feature idea, we thought it would be good to give you an overview of how we approach
the overall design process and how ideas such as the ones you mention flow into our process. Also for those of you attending the PDC, Sam will be
leading a session on the
design principles of Windows 7.
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21.10.2008Windows Vista UI design spoof video
Making spoof videos would definitely top the list of talents by Microsoft employees. Heres a dated but rare video starring the infamous (and now
disbanded) MSX design team who worked on the Windows Codename Longhorn project.
This time they poke fun at the user experience
decision making process for Longhorn, what would become Windows Vista. Starring from left to right, Tjeerd Hoek - design director for Windows, Greg
Melander - visual design lead for Longhorn; Cees van Dok - lead product designer; Mark Ligameri - design manager & creative director for Longhorn; and
Chris Guzak - senior architect for Windows.
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07.09.2007Windows 7: Designing Aero Snap
Steven Sinofsky: Heres a behind the scenes look at the design of the Aero Snap feature in Windows 7. We thought it would be fun to take a look at the
overall design process of the feature and the tools and techniques used. This feature poses a unique design challenge in that you just use the
feature without any user-interface specifically to invoke it. As with all features this is a collaboration across all of our engineering disciplines.
For this post, Stephan Hoefnagels, a Senior UX designer, presents the design perspective.
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17.03.2009Manuel Clement - (XDR) Experience Design & Research
Long Zheng: If you have the slightest curiosity of what the next version of Windows will look like, then keep an eye on
Manuel Clement. The trick is to use your peripheral vision and not stare, otherwise theyll sue
for harassment.
He leads a relatively new design group at
Microsoft Design called XDR, which stands for Experience Design and Research and is responsible for all the interaction design
of future versions of Windows, Internet Explorer and Windows Live. Even though theyve just moved in, already theyve started redecorating Windows Live
with the new
glossy theme you see in Wave 2 products. One
can only imagine what theyll do to Windows.
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04.01.2008Windows Firewall with Advanced Security Design Guide
This guide helps you design Windows Firewall with Advanced Security settings and rules that meet your goals for network security. This guide answers
the "what," "why," and "when" questions. The Windows Firewall with Advanced Security Deployment Guide answers the "how" questions.
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09.06.2008New Microsoft Web Design Tool
in Beta
Microsoft late Tuesday
released the first beta of its
new Web design tool that will
compete with the likes of
Adobe Dreamweaver. The program
is part of Microsoft's
forthcoming Expression lineup,
which also includes a
graphical design tool and an
interface designer...
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06.09.2006Design principles for Windows 7
If you've never seen Hillel Cooperman's presentation "
Getting Users to Fall in Love with Your
Software" from PDC 2003 for what was then Windows Longhorn, then you're missing out. Fast forward five years to PDC 2008, Samuel Moreau gave an
updated but very similar presentation in motive but today titled "
Design principles for Windows
7".
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30.10.2008MS: Ability to Co-opt Pop-ups a 'Design Consideration'
The ability for a Web page to
wrest control of the source of
content for a pop-up browser
window that appears beside it
is not a design flaw or
vulnerability in Internet
Explorer 7, but instead
"an important design
consideration...to provide a
consistent customer
experience," Microsoft
said Tuesday...
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31.10.2006Voting Begins in MS PC Design
Contest
Public's Choice voting has
begun for Microsoft's
next-generation PC design
contest hosted on
StartSomethingPC.com, with the
winner being awarded $25,000.
The idea was to move beyond
the beige box and rethink how
people are using their
computers - while keeping
Windows Vista in mind...
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08.11.2005Microsoft battles to win over 'sceptical' designers
Microsoft is desperately
trying to persuade more
designers to use its
Expression Web design tools
and Silverlight, which is a
potential Adobe Flash-killer.
Microsoft is far
better known for its
relationship with developers
than with designers but as the
software giant begins to step
on Adobe's toes with its
design tools, it has started
hiring "user design
evangelists" to help spread
the word -- both to the design
community as well as within
its own campus.
One
of the first designers to be
recruited into this new role
was Shane Morris, who joined
Microsoft at the start of
2007.
Morris admits
when he was first approached,
he thought the recruiter had
made a mistake...
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20.07.2007Threat Modeling: Uncover Security Design Flaws Using The STRIDE Approach
Whenever you build a new
system, you should consider
how an intruder might go about
attacking it and build in
appropriate defenses at
design-time...
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04.11.2006Microsoft Design prototyping with PowerPoint
Long Zheng: What does Windows, Windows Live, Internet Explorer, Home Server and Expression Blend all have in common? Believe it or not, PowerPoint
played a role in the design process. The productivity application where you and I might just make slideshows is also becoming a popular prototyping
tool inside Microsoft.
At the ś
Expression around the clockť event in Seoul,
Manuel
Clement gave a talk about wireframe prototyping with Office PowerPoint 2007. Manuel is a lead of
XDR (Experience, Design & Research) at
Microsoft Design - the group responsible for design of Windows (7) and Windows Live.
Simply put, XDR is taking over where MSX, the former Windows design team, left off. Thus, you bet Ill be watching them very closely.
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13.10.2007How do Apple's designs affect consumers?
Apple has always been a company known for design; not just design, but even the most loathing Apple hater will have to admit at some time that the
company does make some pretty well thought out products. Robert Brunner over at Fast Company has written an interesting blog post about Apple's
design, and how other companies attempt to replicate it, sometimes producing a bad result for the end user. Brunner has said, "Here's the gist:
Apple has been so successful in design, that to many people if something does not resemble an iPhone, iPod, MacBook, etc., it is not 'good
design.' If it is not an uber-simple, highly-rationalized, single-buttoned, machined-from-a-solid-block-of aluminum thing, it can't be good,
right?
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11.06.2009Google testing new homepage design in Taiwan, Hong Kong
Google is testing a new
homepage design in Taiwan and
Hong Kong that takes advantage
of faster broadband speeds in
those markets, one of the
company's founders said
Thursday.
"We're
actually now experimenting
with trying new kinds of
homepages, for example in
Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong,
that are a completely
different type than we've
tried before on our U.S. site
as well as our European
sites," Sergey Brin, a
co-founder of Google and the
company's president of
technology, speaking to
investors during a conference
call.
Google
announced the new design for
its South Korean Web site in
May, during a keynote speech
by Chairman and CEO Eric
Schmidt at the Seoul Digital
Forum. The site's new design
ditches Google's famously
clean homepage design, adding
a row of icons above the
search bar and a row of
animated icons below it. ..
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20.07.2007Google goes for a new look on Korean site
Google is trying out a new
look on its South Korean
http://www.google.co.kr/ig?sp=
korea&hl=ko>Web site that goes
further from the company's
famously clean design than
anything tried before.
Google has been quietly
tinkering with the design of
its Web site for some time.
Most recently, the company
added a toolbar with text
links at the top of its
flagship site, just above the
company's logo and search
bar. The new site design
introduced in South Korea
replaces the toolbar with an
array of logos -- including a
row of animated icons that
expand when the mouse rolls
over them -- that add a dose
of color, and clutter, to the
site.
Eric Schmidt,
the chairman and CEO of
Google, announced the new look
during a keynote speech
Wednesday at the Seoul Digital
Forum, saying Korean users
were ready for the new design,
which he described as more
sophisticated. Schmidt didn't
say whether the company
planned to use the same design
on other Google sites. ..
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30.05.2007US, EU to Have Common Sat Nav Signal Design
The European Union and the
United States have agreed on a
common signal design for their
respective satellite
navigation systems,
representatives said Monday...
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31.07.2007Microsoft: Malware can disable UAC in Windows 7 "by design"
A month has barely passed since the public beta debut of Windows 7 and we have our first horror story. UAC (user account control) was the major gripe
with Windows Vista which annoyed most tech savvy users and confused ordinary consumers. Microsoft has changed the behavior in Windows 7, lowering the
requirement for user interaction when changing system settings. The apparent downside to this is, according to reports, the way Microsoft has changed
the behavior makes it extremely easy for malware authors to write code to disable UAC without user intervention.
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30.01.2009Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade retail boxing revealed
AeroXperience's Bryant Zadegan has got his hands on an exclusive look at the Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade retail boxing. Those who are familiar with
the Windows Vista Anytime Upgrade will remember that it was only pushed online, but Zadegan says that "Microsoft will indeed be pushing Anytime
Upgrade through retail channels." On Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled the final design for the regular retail box. The anytime upgrade boxes are the same
shape and design as the full version or regular upgrade boxes, except slightly smaller since they just contain a product key used to migrate Windows 7
from Home Premium to Professional or Ultimate from within the Windows 7 control panel. More images are available over at the AeroXperience Blog.
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26.06.2009First Look at Firefox 4.0 Design Mockups
Lifehacker: Last week we took a look at
initial design mockups for Firefox 3.7, and now the busy designers at Mozilla are back with some theme mockups for the even
-further-into-the-future Firefox 4.0...
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28.07.2009Via Releases Laptop Design as Open Source
Via Technologies released the hardware design for a low-cost laptop with WiMax support under an open-source license on Tuesday, a move intended to
make customization easier and shorten design cycles for system makers. The CAD (computer-assisted design) files for the OpenBook reference design can
be downloaded for free and made available to anyone under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license. The terms of this license allow the
CAD files to be freely copied, shared and modified.
The only requirements are that use of the design is attributed to Via and changes made
to the design can only be distributed under the same license or one that has similar terms. "We're hoping we'll get some interesting
feedback, and look forward to seeing what the community thinks about this concept," said Richard Brown, vice president of marketing at Via.
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