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 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 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 7 Migration Tool to Move From Windows XP to Windows 7
In past we had covered guide on upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7. Unfortunately there is no direct upgrade path from Windows Xp to Windows 7 and you have to use Windows Easy Transfer utility if you want to move your user and program files from XP to Windows 7.
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22.11.2009 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. Its about time!
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20.11.2006 Windows XP Home No Longer Qualifies for Windows Vista Upgrades
Windows XP Home Edition no longer qualifies for Windows Vista Business Upgrade or Upgrade + SA through Volume Licensing.
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17.10.2007 Microsoft Offers a Complex Windows Vista vs. Windows XP Perspective
A new standard of security is an integer aspect of the evolution puzzle represented by the move from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
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3.11.2007 Windows XP SP3 to Drop Concomitantly with Windows Vista SP1?
Yes, it's time for every Windows user's favorite obsession: Windows XP Service Pack 3. The third and final service pack for Windows XP has been quite elusive for the past three years.
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25.11.2007 Windows Vista vs. Windows 9x/Me, NT Server, 2000 and XP
If at just a couple of weeks short of the first anniversary since Windows Vista hit the shelves you are still looking for reasons to upgrade to the latest Windows client, then Biplab Paul, Partner Technical Consultant with Microsoft India, has an impressive, and exhaustive list of features that are bound to tilt the balance in Vista's favor.
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14.1.2008Windows 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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18.09.2008Scenic 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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17.08.2009New 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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06.01.2008Look 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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21.03.2008Actipro 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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29.12.2007How 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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18.02.2008Microsoft'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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04.03.2008Preview 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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06.08.2009New 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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12.08.2008Popfly gets some ribbon action
Alistair Speirs: Very cool - the ribbon makes an appearance on the web (other than Office Online)
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19.12.2007Office 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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29.04.2008The 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 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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13.03.2008Microsoft 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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25.11.2006Windows UX Guidelines October 08 update: ribbons, touch and pen computing
Microsoft’s official
Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines, or
more affectionately known as the “UX Guide”, has had a recent October 10 makeover. Topics added in this update include "
Ribbons",
touch
computing,
pen computing and
printing.
Of most interest is the article dedicated to
Ribbons, explaining to developers how to design a great Ribbon experience in their own application, but probably more importantly when to and when
not to use a Ribbon. The Touch article also provides some insightful tips to developing a user-interface that is touch friendly.
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16.10.2008Office 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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07.09.2007Understanding 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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03.09.2009MySpace 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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25.04.2008Office 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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02.11.2006Europe's ambitious 'single access point' for cultural media provides porn
In an effort to build national and multi-national pride in the cultural, artistic, and literary products of Europe throughout its vast history, the EC
this morning cut the red ribbon around Europeana, its central online library...
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