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 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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15.11.2006 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 Windows Update automatically changing user settings - again
After Patch Tuesday this week (October 9), some Windows Vista users noticed something strange: Windows Update had changed their Automatic Update settings and rebooted their machines automatically without their consent.
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12.10.2007 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 Vista Beta2 users to run as standard user
David Cross a Director of Program Management with Windows Security has posted today over at the UAC blog that the users accounts created on Windows Vista Beta2 will be standard users. Yep, thats right...not an Admin, not a Protected Admin, but a standard user.
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3.4.2006 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 Turn Off or Disable User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista
User Account Control (UAC) is a new security feature in Windows Vista that requires all users to log on and run in standard user privileges mode instead of as administrator with full administrative rights, thus prevent unauthorized or accidental changes that could destabilize the computers or allows virus and malware to exploit the system-level privileges provided to the local administrator to attack the network security, compromise computer safety and privacy, and damage files and settings in the network.
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19.12.2006 Jim Allchin explains Windows Vista User Account Control
One of the most basic conundrums in computer security is the constant trade-off between security and usability. At the end of the day, if security is too complicated to use, then it simply won't be used.
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24.1.2007 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 Stop the Windows Vista Features and Services Harvesting User Data for Microsoft
There is a constant flow of communication between Windows Vista and Microsoft. A collection of features and services across Microsoft's latest desktop operating system exchange data with locations on the Internet, including those belonging to the Redmond company.
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19.8.2007 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 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 PC login Now - How To Change a Windows XP Limited User Account Into a Computer Administrator
One of the place that I work at has a few hundreds of computers and it is shared by students.
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12.7.2008 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 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 Office 2007 :: First impressions of an average user
OK, well perhaps I am not the average user, but I can say with my hand on my heart that I have never installed any of the Office 2007 Betas and, for what it's worth, not really followed the Office 2007 developement program with as much energy as others.
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2.12.2006 User reports shipping Vista is different from RTM
ONE OF our readers already bought Vista OEM from Overclockers. He installed it and got back with a few first impressions. And he reckons that the OEM Vista is not the same as the RTM (release to manufacture) he tried before.
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1.2.2007 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 Instantly Link Windows Live ID with Windows 7 User Account
Microsoft Windows 7 lets you add Online ID providers like Windows Live ID and associate with Windows 7 user. Here is Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant 6.5 installs the Windows Live ID online provider for Windows 7.
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5.10.2009 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 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 Compatibility Issues When Surfing in IE7? Use User Agent String Utility to Spoof or Simulate as IE6
Although almost all websites has supported Internet Explorer 7 (IE7), the latest generation of popular web browser from Microsoft, but there are still some very few Internet sites that are still not updating the web server configuration for Internet Explorer 7 compatibility, and are not accessible by IE7 users and blocked the Internet surfers from viewing the web pages properly when using IE 7.
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21.11.2006 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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29.4.2009Windows 7: User Account Control (UAC) overview
In part one of our overview of Windows 7, we looked into Federated Search. In part two, we look into the much criticized feature of Windows Vista -
The User Account Control One of the highly criticized features in Windows Vista is the User Account Control(UAC) which prompts up a dialog box
seeking users' permission to continue or stop whenever a system-level change is made. The problem with Vista is that even the default user account
which is created during the install, who is a protected administrator (unlike in XP where the user is an Administrator), could not bypass the UAC
until its tweaked.
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07.01.2009Windows 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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27.02.2008Building the New Windows
Experience
For years, Windows has been
lambasted for what many see as
an inferior user experience
when compared to operating
systems such as Apple's Mac
OS X. But at this year's PDC,
Microsoft hopes that its
efforts to emphasize the user
experience in Windows Vista
will begin to allay those
criticisms...
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16.09.2005Engineering Windows 7: Managing Windows windows
Steven Sinofsky: Weve booted the machine, displayed stuff on the screen, launched programs, so next up were going to look at a pretty complex topic
that sort of gets to the core role of the graphical user interfacemanaging windows. Dave Matthews is program manager on the core user experience team
who will provide some of the data and insights that are going into engineering Windows 7.
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02.10.2008Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines
This download contains a preliminary draft of the Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines (or UX Guide). These guidelines contain information on
whats new in Windows Vista, design principles, and guidelines for controls, commands, text, interaction, windows, aesthetics, and the Windows
environment. They help designers and developers create high-quality Windows Vista applications with a consistent "look and feel."
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27.10.2007User Accounts: The Foundation
of a Safe and Secure Windows
Vista System
Columnist Dan DiNicolo
explains how to implement user
accounts and Parental Controls
in Windows Vista for better
security and a safer online
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08.09.2006Engineering 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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09.10.2008Least Privilege: Teach Your Apps To Play Nicely With Windows Vista User Account Control
Learn how to modify your
applications to ensure they
work seamlessly with the new
User Account Control feature
of Windows Vista...
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27.01.2007'Avalon' Extended to Mac,
Web Devices
At this week's Professional
Developers Conference, a lot
of the focus has been on
making the user experience
within Windows better.
However, Microsoft is also
aiming to extend that same
user experience across
platforms and devices through
"Windows Presentation
Foundation Everywhere," or
WPF/E...
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17.09.2005Mac user: How Microsoft has cleaned up Windows
If you asked me a year ago what I thought about Windows, I probably would've said something along the lines of "disorganized", "a mess", or
"not adequate for my needs". So I was very surprised when I gave the Windows 7 beta, and then the release candidate, a real test run. I was one of
the people who never really liked Windows Vista, and to this day I dread working on computers that have it installed. While I believed it was a step
up from XP in many ways, Windows XP had a certain consistency to it that Vista still lacks.
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24.05.2009Windows Vista Story: Windows Vista Application Development Requirements for User Account Control
Provides information to help
application developers ensure
that their applications are
User Account Control (UAC)
compatible...
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13.10.2006Microsoft: 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 Mobile 6.5 ROM leaks for Sony Xperia
Earlier we saw a YouTube user posting a video of Windows Mobile 6.5 on his HTC Touch HD, now we have another user from xda-developers forum who has
ported the latest Windows Mobile 6.5 to Sony Xperia phone already Below are some screenshots.
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16.02.2009Windows Home Server Technical Brief for User Accounts and Shared Folders
You can use the Shared Folders and User Accounts features in Windows Home Server to centrally store, protect and access your data on your home server.
Files can be accessed from both within your home network and remotely from the web.
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16.09.2008Windows Security Site Shows
Mac User
Much ado has been made about
security in Mac OS X as
compared to Windows, with
numerous technology pundits
recommending Apple's systems
for their relative safety.
Microsoft accidentally did the
same this week, publishing
clipart of a user on a
PowerBook to its Security Web
site under the headline
"You're clean."..
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16.08.2006Reminder: Windows 7 beta bi-hourly shutdowns start next week
As reported by Ars Technica, beginning July 1, 2009, Windows 7 users who are still on the beta (build 7000) will begin to receive bi-hourly shutdowns
reminding the user to upgrade to the release candidate (build 7100). On August 1, 2009, all Windows 7 beta licenses will expire triggering the
non-genuine experience for any user still using the beta. The user's wallpaper will be removed and a message with the words "This copy of Windows
is not genuine" will be displayed in the lower right corner above the taskbar. Users who would like to continue testing the next Microsoft operating
system are asked to download the Windows 7 Release Candidate that was released to the public in May 2009.
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25.06.2009Windows 7 vs Windows Vista: The UAC Benchmark
One of the most hated features of Windows Vista is the
User Account
Control, or UAC in short. Many people found it annoying and chose to
disable it right away, even if this meant exposing their system to
additional security threats. In Windows 7, Microsoft has seriously changed this feature. Now users have a lot more control over it and how it works
and it should provide a better user experience. To see how much improvement this means in numbers, I have run a comparison between the default Windows
Vista and Windows 7 UAC levels. Let's see which one wins and why.
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05.08.2009Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows 7 Beta)
The Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) is a set of tools and documentation that support the configuration and deployment of Microsoft®
Windows® operating systems.. By using Windows AIK, you can automate Windows installations, capture Windows images with ImageX, configure and modify
images using Deployment Imaging Servicing and Management (DISM), create Windows PE images, and migrate user profiles and data with the User State
Migration Tool (USMT).
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10.01.2009Explaining Windows Live ID usage in Web Applications
If you are using a web application that uses Windows Live, such as Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live, you might be wondering, how does authentication
work.
The first step in the process is that the web application registers with the Windows Live ID service. This registration
includes creating unique keys for the application and storing a URL that the Live ID service will use to redirect users after signing into Windows
Live ID.
The 2nd step is when the application wants to authenticate the user. The application will provide the 'sign-in' link on it's web page.
The user when clicking on the link will be redirecting to sign-in page hosted by Windows Live ID. When this happens a token is also passed that
identifies the application. By passing in a token that was given to the application at time of registration, the sign-in page understands who is
calling it.
The 3rd step is that the user logins into Live ID. After logging into Live, the Live service redirects the user to the applications
designated page that it registered with. The application can then redirect back to the original landing page the user came in on. Presto, you are
authenticated to the Web application.
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20.02.2008First Post-Beta 2 Vista Build
Released
Microsoft late Friday
delivered the first build of
Windows Vista to follow the
release of Beta 2 at WinHEC in
May. Build 5456 is available
to technical beta testers, and
includes better user interface
performance along with User
Account Control tweaks to
lessen the number of
authentication notices...
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