Windows 7 UI Scenic Ribbon
An integral part of the evolution Microsoft is attempting to catalyze for the Windows client via the move from Windows Vista to Windows 7 is to scrap the traditional graphical user interface associated with the programs running on top of the operating system for the style introduced with Office 2007 Ribbon/Fluent UI.
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28.11.2008 Microsoft rolls up Office ribbon
Microsoft has modified its new interface for Office 2007 after complaints from beta testers that the "ribbon" system took up too much screen space.
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26.8.2006 How Microsoft Wrapped the "Ribbon" in a Bow
User interface design is tough work. It's a little science, a dash of art and lots of guesswork--all of which Microsoft applied to Office 2007's "ribbon."
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4.12.2006 How Microsoft Wrapped the "Ribbon" in a Bow
User interface design is tough work. It's a little science, a dash of art and lots of guesswork--all of which Microsoft applied to Office 2007's "ribbon."
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5.12.2006 Microsoft to tweak Office 2007 Ribbon
When Microsoft unveils an update to the beta of its Office 2007 later this summer, it will modify parts of the user interface that have attracted criticism, the product's UI lead program manager said this week.
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27.7.2006 Windows Scenic UI for Windows 7
Mum's still the word on Windows 7 Build 6780 Milestone 3 and the first implementations of the Fluent/Ribbon graphical user interface into default components of the operating system, as far as the company's official mouthpieces for communications go.
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18.9.2008 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 Download Free Windows 7 RTM GUI Ribbon-Fluent Samples
Among the many enhancements that Windows 7 brings to the table is the evolution of graphical user interfaces and natural user interfaces as far as Windows clients are concerned.
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19.10.2009 How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008 Instant Change Vista Product ID with Vista ProductID Changer
In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
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1.11.2009 Vista SP1 RC1 Flies Past Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2
Despite the fact that Microsoft has expressed its official position regarding testing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 ahead of its finalization, there is simply too much of a hunger for the service pack.
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27.12.2007 Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista
32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
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4.1.2008 Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String
Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
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15.5.2008 x64 Vista SP2 JPG Rendering Performance Inferior to x86 Vista SP2's
The JPG rendering process on 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is inferior to that on the 32-bit variants of the operating system.
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10.6.2009 Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 New Vista OEM Activation Hack - Vista Boot by gkend
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this article on his blog and to our forum members to clecha, Nighthief and fitterphil120 for most of the findings. One again the Chinese come up with a new method to trick out the Vista Activation. We have seen Softmode and VistaLoader, however Vista Boot by gkend does promise even more.
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21.5.2007 Windows Vista on Super Nintendo, As Real As Vista on PSP
We're puzzled and confused... How can a console that's at least ten times less powerful than the acclaimed PSP cope with Windows Vista's requirements?
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15.8.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1 - Office 2007 benchmarking
Enough with benchmarking the OS - lets see if Office 2007 is any faster on Vista SP1.
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26.2.2008 Microsoft Says Vista SP1 Needs to Speak the Same Language as Vista RTM
Microsoft says that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 needs to speak the same language as the RTM version of the latest Windows client. Otherwise there's no game.
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2.4.2008 Vista SP1 to Cure the Vista RTM Wow Hangover
When Windows Vista was unleashed in January 31, 2008, Microsoft was promising performance, security, innovation, all wrapped up under an umbrella of a Wow user experience.
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11.4.2008 Vista-For-Free coupon with Vista ready PC's
Microsoft and the world's leading PC vendors have reached an agreement to promote the long-awaited Vista OS by offering PC buyers worldwide a free upgrade coupon, as a way of encouraging them to buy a Vista-capable PC as early as possible, according to market sources, citing information leaked from Taiwan-based PC makers.
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11.10.2006 Can Vista SP1 help polish Vistas tarnished image?
Call it complaining. Call it whining. The end result is the same: Windows Vistas image is tarnished. And its corroding more and more rapidly as the weeks are going on. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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21.8.2007 Vista SP1 Features the Same Sins as Windows Vista
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 comes with the same sins as Windows Vista. The service pack is not even out the door, and is already putting users at risk.
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16.1.2008 Will Vista SP1 Go Where Vista Never Went? Even with XP SP3 and Windows 7?
Throughout 2007, it became painfully clear to Microsoft that the main competitor for Windows Vista was not Apple's Mac OS X or even the open source Linux operating system but Windows XP, and, in fact, specifically XP SP2.
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1.3.2008 New Vista AutoPatcher - Vista update toolkit Alpha
Vista Update Toolkit Alpha (Windows Vista Updates Downloader) is a FREE program which downloads updates directly from Microsoft. All files are very useful with vLite!
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26.9.2008 Vista SP1 Microsoft Could Not Have Given Less Vista SP2 Anyone?
Microsoft had the chance to position the first service pack for Windows Vista as a panacea for the operating system, giving the platform nothing less than a fresh start and another take at the Wow.
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3.10.2007 Vista SP1 Rolling Over for Vista SP2
Vista SP1 did not do the trick for your RTM copy of the operating system? While such a scenario is highly unlikely, Microsoft is getting closer and closer to taking Windows Vista to the next level, again.
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7.12.2008Scenic Ribbon UI framework to be backported to Vista with Windows 7 Client Platform Update
Long Zheng: They don't call Microsoft the platforms company for nothing. Thanks to a tip from reader Boldizsár, some
developer documentation on MSDN is indicating Microsoft will indeed be
backporting the new
Scenic Ribbon UI framework introduced in Windows
7 to its misunderstood predecessor, Windows Vista (and Windows Server 2008).
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17.08.2009Windows Scenic: Windows 7s Ribbon-based UI platform
It looks like the much anticipated new user-interface platform for Windows 7 and Windows Live Wave 3 applications is being called “Windows
Scenic”, if the recently available
Windows Live
Wave 3 Movie Maker and
leaked screenshot of Windows
7’s Paint application is any indication. They are both built with one and the same UI framework.
Several months ago
there were indications
Microsoft was working on an
Office 2007 Ribbon-inspired interface for Windows 7 which at the time sounded bizarre and is still today. How it is implemented in
“Scenic” is literally stripping the Ribbon out of Office. In fact so literal Scenic’s DLLs include resources from Office 2007 Beta 2
and the existence of a “Ribbon menu” as noted below...
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18.09.2008New Ribbon Reference: RibbonX for Dummies
Zac Woodall: Those of you out there building custom Ribbon UI for Access/Office might be interested to know that the Dummies folks have recently
released a guide for building Ribbon UI titled (as you might expect) "
RibbonX for
Dummies". The book is a general guide to building Ribbon XML, and it does include a section specifically on Access 2007.
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06.01.2008How to prevent Windows Vista's green ribbon of death
David A. Karp: Don't you just love it when something is so notorious
for a particular shortcoming that a new term is invented to describe it? It happened with the Windows Blue Screen of Death. It happened with the
Spinning Beach Ball of Death in Mac OS X. And it happened with the odd-number curse, referring to every other Star Trek film.
Now
it has happened with Vista's own Green Ribbon of Death, shown below.
The green ribbon is basically a progress bar, a screen
element Microsoft has sadly gone to great pains to excise from Windows Vista. But this particular progress bar is the harbinger of death for the
active Windows Explorer window, which, unfortunately, is not uncommon in Vista.
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18.02.2008Actipro Ribbon - Office 2007 UI
Another great example of cool design time functionality in Cider (WPF Designer in Visual Studio 2008) comes from Actipro. Their Office Ribbon control
uses Cider Extensibility to add task panes invoked by an adorner that makes configuring their control a breeze.
For example, when
the main Ribbon is selected a little widget adorner in the upper right hand corner is shown and when clicked will bring up a task pane that uses the
Cider Editing Model to make updates to the XAML...
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29.12.2007Office Labs: Search Commands
Forgot where to find the Compare button again? Microsoft's Office Labs have just released a preview of one of their research products, "Search
Commands," for Office 2007. Just press Ctrl-Y and you can search the ribbon as easily as you search your Windows Vista start menu. It also makes
use of the Guided Help feature of Vista, which allows you to learn it in a snap.
The Office add-in as of today supports Word, Excel and
PowerPoint and like what was shown in a concept a year ago allows users to search for commands in the Office applications directly from the Ribbon.
They can then quickly those commands by a numbered keyboard shortcut, giving quick access to commands or tools if you don't know where they are in
the Ribbon bar.
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29.04.2008Microsoft's ribbon interface draws frowns, smiles
Microsoft's Office 2007, and to a lesser extent Vista, is bringing a radical change to the desktop user interface. The Office Fluent UI feature --
the ribbon interface -- introduced in Office 2007 is Microsoft's attempt to help users get more out of Office applications. For nearly two decades,
apps have relied on the menu interface to collect and expose features, but as programs' capabilities have ballooned, the menus have gotten
overloaded. Software developers have tried various supplements, such as Office 2003's approach of hiding infrequently used menu items automatically,
and Adobe's use of floating multi-tabbed feature panels -- approaches picked up by other developers as well.
But the ribbon
interface is perhaps the most radical UI change since Windows 95 and the Mac's System 7 from the early 1990s. The ribbon presents commands organized
as a set of commands most relevant for each task area. For example, Word has a tab labeled "References" for working with Word documents. The ribbon
replaces menus and toolbars.
Its reception has been mixed.
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04.03.2008Look for Ribbon in a Windows 7 application near you
Long Zheng: The people who are drafting the new user interface guidelines for Windows 7 have some pretty bold plans. They plan to build the
Ribbon, Jewel and "other new UI concepts" natively into the Windows platform.
Ultimately, they want software developers big and small to avoid the
Win32
UI framework which dates back all the way to Windows 95. Instead, use this new lightweight and high performance markup-based UI framework to build
“rich, graphics and animated user interfaces”. The Ribbon and Jewel (button in the top left corner of Office 2007) will be a part of this
new framework. It sounds very much like
WPF, except native.
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21.03.2008Popfly gets some ribbon action
Alistair Speirs: Very cool - the ribbon makes an appearance on the web (other than Office Online)
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19.12.2007Preview the Office 2007 Ribbon-like UI Floated For OpenOffice.Org
OpenOffice.org has prototyped a
new UI interface that radically changes
the current OO.o interface into something very similar to the new Ribbon style menus that Office 2007 introduced and which have been extensively used
throughout Windows 7. The blog shows a
screenshot of the prototype in Impress (the
equivalent of PowerPoint), but this UI is proposed to be used across all OO.o applications.
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06.08.2009Understanding Windows 7 upgrade paths
Windows 7 has already earned itself a blue ribbon, and it isn't even in stores yet. Many Vista users will migrate to Redmond's latest and
greatest operating system in search of greener pastures, and countless Windows XP laggards will be lured from the woodwork by Windows 7's polish.
Microsoft will be granting both XP and Vista users the right to buy "Upgrade" versions of Windows 7 which run for considerably less money. But in
terms of how you can perform an upgrade on a machine already running Windows, for some the in-place upgrade option will make the experience seamless;
all your programs, files and settings will remain untouched coming from certain versions of Vista.
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03.09.2009Office 2007 Design Team Shows Off Ribbon Prototypes
Jensen Harris from the Office 2007 design team gave a
very rare presentation at
Microsoft’s MIX08 event
yesterday about not what the Office 2007 Fluent (Ribbon) interface is about, but instead how it came to be and what other concepts they tried.
He admitted himself it was the first time ever in a public venue where they’ve shown these never-before-seen prototypes of what would
become Office 2007. It was great insight into the development process of Office which frankly may not have been very interesting except the last
release. Having said that, it was still a very small selection of material out of the 50-60GB worth of prototypes Jensen claims have been archived.
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13.03.2008If Windows is a dead end, what's next?
The writing is on the wall. Despite a major push to sell the much-maligned Windows Vista, customers aren't buying. Nearly two years after
Vista's release, Windows XP remains the standard desktop OS in business, and Microsoft has extended its availability three times (currently to
August 2009) due to customer demand. Microsoft itself forecasts just 2 percent growth in Vista sales in early 2009, after lackluster sales in 2008.
And that's after forcing customers to buy Vista to get XP "downgrades."
So all eyes were on Microsoft's Professional Developer
Conference in Los Angeles last week as Microsoft finally took the wrap off Windows 7, the successor to Vista due in early 2010. But early reaction is
that Windows 7 is just a cleaned-up Vista. It's essentially the same kernel and the same OS, with a couple new technologies thrown in, such as the
Surface-based multitouch capabilities and the ability for developers to ribbon-bar-enable their own apps for better consistency with Microsoft's
new UI approach (one that people either seem to love or hate). "It's not anything radical," says Neil MacDonald, a Gartner analyst who follows
Microsoft. "It's a polished version of Vista."
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04.11.2008Microsoft 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.
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25.11.2006The Story of the Ribbon
Jensen Harris: <...> Last week, I presented a session at MIX called "The Story of the Ribbon." I talked a bit about the general design process we
used to come up with the Office 2007 user interface, to iterate on it, and to evaluate it. As part of the discussion, I showed for the first time some
of the early prototypes we worked on (and abandoned or refined) along the way.
It's always fun to present substantially new
content, and this was my first time giving large portions of this talk. The audience was great and, although you can't hear them on the video, they
seemed to be into it and enjoying the presentation. It was a lot of fun!
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12.03.2008Office 2007 Search Commands prototype demo
Sometimes what customers want is not always what customers get. Take
Scout for example, a little piece of
Microsoft Research
ingenuity that really helps users with the new Office 2007 Fluent interface. As religious as I am about the Ribbon and contextual interface, I
suffer just as much knowing a feature exists somewhere in the application that I just cant find in the Ribbon. I mean how do I know what context its
in? And Im almost certain Im not the only one
suffering.
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07.09.2007MySpace cuts the ribbon on its third-party App Gallery
A popular feature on social networking site Facebook, the ability to adorn a profile with multiple mini-applications, was unveiled today on MySpace in
its Application Gallery...
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25.04.2008New Visual C++ refresh has tools for Office, IE 'look and feel'
If you're an MFC developer for Windows, your applications won't have to look like they were made for Windows 95 anymore. The final edition of the
latest VC++ Feature Pack enables you to replace your toolbars with the Office ribbon...
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12.08.2008Mozilla plans to "Ribbonize" Firefox
Mozilla has unveiled plans to "ribbonize" Firefox 3.7 for Windows Vista and Windows 7 in an attempt to reduce on-screen clutter and free up screen
real estate.
Mozilla
announced that “starting with Vista, and continuing with Windows 7, the menu bar is going away” and will “be
replaced with things like the Windows Explorer contextual strip, or the Office Ribbon.”
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23.09.2009Office Online Page Revamped
With Office 2007 due to hit
release to manufacturing
anytime now, Microsoft is
already preparing customers to
its release, through, in the
first place, a visual update
to the Office Online website,
which is now designed to
resemble as closely as
possible the new "Ribbon"
interface introduced in the
upcoming version of the
productivity suite.
The website now also
features blue-ish colors to go
with the default theme. The
"ribbon" featured at the top
is separated in different
tabs, just like the actual
application suite.
Thanks to Emexci for
the heads up!
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