Introducing the Windows 7 UI
Update: For more video demos please check out the Windows 7 Demos post.
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28.10.2008 The Microsoft Windows UI: Behind the Scenes
Happily (and publicly, surprisingly) floating around on the internet is some of the work of the head 3D persona at Microsoft by the name of Robert Stein III.
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10.4.2007 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 Windows 7 Theme & UI for iPhone
First of all id like to thank spintek and ebl4287 for releasing such an awesome Windows 7 theme for iPhone. Before getting started confirmed that your iPhone is Jaibreaked and you have installed OpenSSH in your iPhone through Cydia.
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19.8.2009 Microsoft Showcases Windows Vista UI
Microsoft's Aaron Woodman demonstrated for the first time to consumers the new Windows Vista interface during Gates' CES keynote. While much of the information was previously outlined during September's Professional Developers Conference, Woodman focused on three areas where Vista excels: gaming, photos and music.
Woodman showcased the next-generation Microsoft Flight Simulator release, which is due in early 2007. "Gaming is going to be awesome on Windows Vista," he said. Photo capabilities will also be boosted in Vista. The new operating system will better organize digital pictures and save original versions when editing.
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5.1.2006 Windows Vista: The choose your own adventure UI
Some of you may, and some of you may not, (so thats everybody) know Windows Vista has 4 tiers of user interface experience, from the best to worst: Aero Glass, Vista Standard, Vista Basic and Windows Classic. So why so many?
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21.9.2006 New Windows Live Writer UI-News
While the news on Writer has been pretty quiet recently, here's two items that caught our attention.
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5.2.2007 The Windows 7 Desktop and UI Customization and Flexibility
The Windows 7 desktop and graphical user interface are right on track to delivering an evolution compared to Windows Vista, and in this context, provide a high degree of customization and flexibility, superior to what is available with the successor of Windows XP.
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6.10.2008 New Windows Live Messenger Wave 3 UI
Microsoft just demonstrated the latest UI for Windows Live Messenger in a Windows 7 session here at PDC.
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28.10.2008 Aero Glass is the final UI for Windows Vista
Back in 2001 Microsoft's early betas of Windows XP contained a user interface dubbed "Watercolor". But only months before the operating system shipped Microsoft completely replaced it with an entirely different look and feel called "Luna" which became known as "Windows XP Style".
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9.1.2006 Microsoft planning updated UI for Windows Update
Beginning next month Microsoft will start an upgrade to the Windows Update and Microsoft Update services.
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16.7.2009 Windows 7 to officially support logon UI background customization
As you probably know, Windows 7 build 7057, a build recently leaked to the public, sports a new (yet ugly) login UI background.
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16.3.2009 Fresh UI 7.93
Fresh UI is a fresh solution for configuring and optimizing Windows. Loaded with hundreds of useful hidden settings in Windows XP/2000/NT/ 98/95/Me, this software covers the customizing and optimizing techniques that you'll be glad to know, such as:
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16.10.2007 Download Windows 7 RTM UI Accessibility Tools and Automations for Vista SP3
Following the general availability of Windows 7, Microsoft has started backporting bits and pieces of its latest Windows client to previous releases of the operating system.
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2.11.2009 Windows 7: Whats coming for business users
Microsoft showed off publicly for the first time Windows 7 at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) on October 28.
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28.10.2008 Will business users bite on Windows 7?
Most of the Windows 7 features Microsoft has demonstrated and touted for the past few months have been aimed at consumers, not business users.
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4.3.2009 Apples Leopard has Glass UI
Think Secret today published some new screenshots (a report) of Apple's latest "Leopard" Build - Build 9A321.
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22.12.2006 WindowBlinds 5 Brings Vista UI to XP
One of the most anticipated features in Windows Vista is its redesigned user interface that features glass-like title bars and alpha blended windows. But with the upgrade a year away,
Stardock has released
WindowBlinds 5 to offer Windows XP users the same capabilities right now.
Version 5 of Stardock's flagship Windows customization software has been in the works for over a year, according to company CEO Brad Wardell. Initially, Wardell's team was dubious that such features could be added without severe performance lag to Windows XP, which lacks Vista's new advanced graphics subsystem.
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Windows Mobile Business Value Assessment and ROI Calculator
I'm not sure how many of you ever need to create a business case for a Windows Mobile deployment, but if you do, we have created a GREAT tool for you.
microsoft - comments - 19.7.2007
Windows Small Business Server 2008 Has RTM'ed
Windows Small Business Server 2008 has been released to manufacturing. This in the context in which Microsoft was dropping the first public preview of the Windows Server 2008-based products in Release Candidate 0 stage at the end of May 2008.
windows - comments - 22.8.2008
New UI Font Coming to Vista, Office 12
With the release of a new user interface in Windows Vista and Office 12, Microsoft will also update the font that both products use for the first time in eight years. The company says the new font is designed to take advantage of ClearType, and is more modern than its predecessors.
Dubbed "Segoe UI," the font is more humanistic and less computer-like than it's predecessor, Tahoma. Microsoft also relied on a decade of research from its Typography unit on making fonts easier to read and scan on screen.
windows - comments - 23.11.2005
Microsoft Teams Up With CompUSA to Deliver Windows Vista Business ..
Through Microsofts Volume Licensing offers, customers can take advantage of cost savings and early access to major new product releases at CompUSA stores.
microsoft - comments - 13.11.2006
Windows Essential Business Server 2008 RC1 download
Public Preview Software Release Candidate 1 Windows Essential Business Sever 2008 is an integrated and affordable solution that offers the Microsoft software midsize businesses require - preconfigured, integrated and manageable from a single administrative console, and at a significant discount compared to standalone products.
download - comments - 21.7.2008
Top Ten Reasons to use Windows Small Business Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 is designed for businesses like yours. It is a complete, affordable network solution that helps you stay connected with your customers and run your business more efficiently. And it helps secure your network by automatically protecting your information to keep your business up and running.
windows - comments - 2.3.2006
KMS Crack Method to Activate Windows Vista Business or Enterprise Edition
If you intend to activate Windows Vista against a KMS server (Enterprise or Business edition only), but having a hard time to find a working KMS (Key Management Service) server that is public available on the Internet, its possible to install and set up a spoofed KMS host. This tutorial is a complete guide to properly activate your Windows Vista with your own local KMS server with pre-built and pre-installed activated Windows Vista KMS as VMWare virtual appliance image, without the need to install a KMS yourself.
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Should Microsoft get into the PC hardware business?
I really enjoyed watching this recent interview with Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich on Microsofts TechNet Edge.
microsoft - comments - 9.9.2008
Side by side: UI changes from Windows 7 beta to build 7048
Here's a roundup of all the changes we've noticed between Windows 7 build 7000 and Windows 7 build 7048.
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New Microsoft products for enterprise and small business
Microsoft touted two product rollouts on Monday, one a service pack aimed at attracting large corporate customers with remote offices; the other a licensing and services promotion for small businesses.
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Microsoft bolts business intelligence to Office
Microsoft will offer analysis and planning applications as an add-on to its Office suite, a move meant to steer corporate customers away from specialised business-intelligence providers.
microsoft - comments - 6.6.2006
Microsoft business unit head to depart
Doug Burgum, the executive behind Microsoft's business software unit, will leave the company next year.
microsoft - comments - 12.9.2006
More Windows Mobile 7 screenshots emerge with Zune UI
WMPoweruser has posted some more alleged screenshots of Windows Mobile 7. The screenshots Neowin sighted earlier showed the Today Screen and the Maps
utility. The new screenshots shown below, give us a picture of Windows Mobile Marketplace, IM and Zune, possibly from the Windows Mobile 7 UI.
Unlike the earlier screenshots which had a date of October 16, these screenshots reveal no such date details, so as to give away the time this UI was
devised and tested. If these screenshots are from Windows Mobile 7, then the Zune UI confirms the recent rumor that Zune is indeed coming to Windows
Mobile 7.
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neowin.net - 27.03.2009
Thurrott: New UI coming for Windows 7?
Recently, there has been some rumors flying around that Windows 7 would have a completely new UI. Here is a quote from an article on Paul
Thurrott's Super Site for Windows:During the development of Windows Server 2008, I was told by project manager Alex Hinrichs that Microsoft had
completely changed the way it developed Windows. Thanks to the componentization of the underlying OS, it was no longer necessary to "fork" the
Windows build tree so that different parts of the product team could develop their own parts of the OS in isolation.
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neowin.net - 15.04.2009
Microsoft building new UI framework
Long Zheng: Not too long ago Microsoft described Windows Presentation Foundation as the UI
platform for the next 20 years. Surprisingly work is beginning on an even newer Windows UI framework. My Windows Vista clock must be running slow.
Bearing in mind the arsenal of Windows UI frameworks that exists today - Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight, Windows
Forms, Win32, Media Center Markup Language, Microsoft Foundation Classes and more from third parties; Microsoft has decided to build yet another one
to enable new UI experiences in future versions of Windows. Here is the job advertisement...
winbeta.org - 11.01.2008
More on the Windows 7 UI: new taskbar will be mandatory
Ars Technica: While we haven't yet gotten our hands on a Windows 7 build with the new taskbar, we did talk to Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky about the
various UI changes and what we can expect at release time...
winbeta.org - 31.10.2008
Windows Installer 4.5 Redistributable
The Microsoft® Windows® Installer (MSI) is the application installation and configuration service for Windows. Version 4.5 of the Windows Installer
has several new features, including:
Multiple Package Transaction: In a multiple package transaction, you can create a single
transaction from multiple packages. In a multiple package transaction, a chainer is used to dynamically include packages in the transaction. If any of
the packages do not install as expected, you can roll back the installation.
Embedded UI Handler: You can embed a custom user
interface (UI) handler in the Windows Installer package. This makes a custom UI easier to integrate. You can also invoke an embedded UI handler from
the Add or Remove item in Control Panel. Or, you can invoke an embedded UI handler during a Windows Installer repair process.
winbeta.org - 03.06.2008
Windows 7 to support logon UI backgrounds
In the latest Windows 7 build (7057), recently leaked to the public, Rafael Rivera over at Within Windows has found that users can customize the UI
logon background images to include custom images. Rafael reports that the functionality was probably designed for OEM manufactures to include
custom images for Windows 7 in pre-configured computers, but users can now include their own images without the need to use a simple third-party
program. After enabling a registry setting, users can use any image of their choice, as long as their are less than 256kb in size.
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neowin.net - 16.03.2009
MIX09: Windows Mobile 6.5 UI changes and Windows Marketplace
Early this year Microsoft revealed Windows Mobile 6.5 and some of its plans for Windows Marketplace for Windows Mobile. Now at the MIX09 sessions,
Microsoft has revealed more details on the various UI enhancements in the Windows Mobile 6.5 and details regarding Windows Marketplace for Windows
Mobile. The new customizable user interface is more touch-friendly with: The most notable change being the honey-comb interface dropped in the start
screen, but retains the same basic structure of honeycomb and the icons are made bigger to make it touch-friendlyA fresh lock screen showing
alerts and notifications on the deviceRevamped text messages UIImproved scrolling Below is a comparison of the old and new honeycomb interface.
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neowin.net - 20.03.2009
Cairo: Milestone 1 UI Concept
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04.02.2008Side by side: UI changes from Windows 7 beta to Windows 7 RC
Here's an exhaustive roundup of all the changes we've noticed between Windows 7 build 7000 and Windows 7 build 7100. Screenshots included...
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27.05.2009Asus Glides in with Win Mobile über-UI
Asus has hopped onto the 'we can do a better Windows Mobile interface than Microsoft can' bandwagon set in motion by Palm but given a big push by
HTC with its TouchFlo UI.
Asus calls its touch UI Glide - are its handset engineers old 3Dfx fans, we wonder? - that provides a
tweaked Today screen and an iTunes' CoverFlow-style flick'n'tap interface for navigating through your music files, photos and other content.
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08.09.2008Windows 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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18.09.2008Office 2007 Gets Themes, UI
Tweaks
Microsoft continues to tweak
the user interface for Office
2007, and has added a new
silver theme to go along with
the current blue and black
color schemes. Office UI head
Jensen Harris posted a
screenshot of the new designs
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18.07.2006Preview 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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06.08.2009Microsoft patents teapot user interface
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20.01.2008Driving testability from the UI down
Dustin Andrews: A products user interface is one of the most challenging areas to increase testability. Its also the place where our customers will be
using the most. Its important to make your user interface code as testable as possible.
The metaphor of the UI is appealing to us
subconsciously. Sometimes this tricks us into thinking in terms of the metaphor and not the code.
Take the example of the
calculator. What you see on the screen isnt the same thing thats sitting on your desk. Its a hollow shell. Its Just a picture really. Disengage from
your products metaphor from time to time to be able to test the UI more effectively.
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11.01.2008Scenic 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 Mobile 7 UI confirmed by Microsoft?
Microsoft confirmed today that the company will unveil its plans for Windows Mobile 7 at the MIX 2010 conference in March next year. Microsoft Office
Vice President Kurt Delbene confirmed the news at the end of day two at the Professional Developers Conference here in Los Angeles. Little is known
about Windows Mobile 7 except that it has been plagued with delays. Recently Neowin confirmed 1,000 engineers are assigned to Windows Mobile 7 and
that social networking is a key feature. Screenshots of the rumoured interface leaked in March this year and Microsoft officials refused to confirm
or deny.
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19.11.2009Microsoft planning updated UI for Windows Update
Beginning next month Microsoft will start an upgrade to the Windows Update and Microsoft Update services. Microsoft plans to start the
infrastructure update in late August, claiming "it will take a couple of months to complete the rollout." The update is required to "maintain and
improve service quality, reliability, and operations." The update will simply improve the user interface for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008
computers running Windows Update, adding a more visible and detailed description of updates as well as improvements in how users are notified about
service packs. If you currently apply your updates automatically then this update will not modify the look and feel of Automatic Updates.
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17.07.2009Zune HD browser, UI and On Screen Keyboard hands on Videos
Engadget has posted a detailed Zune HD hands-on video, full to the brim with good looking Zune HD features - including the UI, which was previously
reported about by Neowin, and the On Screen Keyboard in action. Crunchgear is also featuring a video which shows off the browser UI. Some of the
highlights of the videos are found below: On Screen Keyboard - The typing interface in the video seems very easy to use - the onscreen keyboard
allows a lot of space and seems to work just fine with larger fingers too. Pins, History, and New - From the home screen, a quick tap on the left
icons bring you to your Pins and History.
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12.08.2009Look 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
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