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Windows 8 sports two very different user interfaces cohabitating in harmony and complementing each other, each one designed for a specific scenario. But the world needs to think of Windows 8’s next generation UI as “more equal” than the older interface. Offering users both the Metro UI design... |
1 September 2011
13:01 GMT |
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With Windows 8, Microsoft is blending together the natural user interface and the graphical user interface to create a new UI tailored to next-generation form factors.
The next version of Windows will make possible NUI interaction models not only on future devices, but also on more traditional PCs, provided that... |
18 July 2011
02:58 GMT |
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The next generation user interface of Windows 8 will be chromeless at core, Microsoft said during its Worldwide Partner Conference 2011. Users that have been watching the evolution of Windows are undoubtedly well aware of the fact that the Windows 8 UI has suffered a major overhaul, especially when the operating sys... |
13 July 2011
12:01 GMT |
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Per Microsoft’s new “Windows Everywhere” mantra / strategy, Windows 8 is designed to play nice with a range of form factors, including ARM powered devices such as tablets, but not only slates. Having used Windows 7 on touch enabled devices I must say that I wasn’t really all that impressed wi... |
13 June 2011
11:05 GMT |
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The first Windows 8 details were certainly devoured quite fast by a starved audience which had to content itself with speculation and leaked details until this week’s D9 and Computex conferences. Microsoft still hasn’t invited the public to the Windows 8 feast, but in all fairness, the software giant did... |
3 June 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Have you ever wondered how a next generation user interface from Microsoft looks like while still in development? Well, this is your chance to get a sneak peek at what the future might have in store for users of the Redmond company’s products.During this year’s TechForum annual event, Craig Mundie, Micro... |
28 February 2011
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Windows 8 could feature a new graphical user interface codenamed Wind, according to a third-party source. With each new major iteration of Windows, Microsoft has also revamped the graphical user interface of the operating system. Perhaps the most comprehensive overhaul of the GUI happened between Windows Vista and W... |
9 December 2010
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Microsoft has offered a sneak peek at the new Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) graphical user interface and features. The company is currently gearing up to release the first beta development milestone of IE9, with the Beauty of the Web launch event planned for September 15th, 2010 in San Francisco. The past week, Jon Box,... |
25 August 2010
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Mozilla is making headway with the major redesign of the graphical user interface it has planned for Firefox 4.0. According to Mozilla designer Stephen Horlander, the next iteration of the open source browser will lose the now-traditional (read obsolete) dialog boxes. The move was designed as a part of the strategy t... |
2 June 2010
10:42 GMT |
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An early development preview of the next major iteration of Firefox features graphical user interface elements specific to the GUI overhaul planned for the evolution of the open source browser. Mozilla has made available for download a nightly build, namely pre-Alpha 5 for Firefox 4.0 (although still labeled v3.7), a... |
25 May 2010
10:17 GMT |
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Mozilla is pushing on with the redesign process of Firefox’s graphical user interface. Early adopters that have followed closely the evolution of Firefox 4.0’s facelift will be able to tell that the New Theme project page now features extended timeline after a recent update. At the same time, Firefox 4.0 ... |
23 April 2010
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A new development milestone of the next major version of Firefox was offered last week. Firefox 3.7 Alpha 4, or the Mozilla Developer Preview 1.9.3 Alpha 4, whichever you prefer, is the latest Build to make it to developers and early adopters involved in the development of Firefox 3.6’s successor. Among the cha... |
13 April 2010
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Mozilla is pressing on with its overhaul of the graphical user interface for the next iteration of Firefox. The upcoming major version of the Mozilla open source browser, Firefox 4.0 will feature a completely redesigned GUI, which, as far as Windows users are concerned, will be tailored to Windows Aero in Windows 7 a... |
15 March 2010
11:48 GMT |
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Firefox 4.0, the next major release of Mozilla’s open source browser, will bring to the table a major overhaul of its graphical user interface, one that would put the UI in line the Windows 7 Ribbon/Fluent style. Mozilla has already made public details on the revamping of the Firefox User interface for version ... |
5 February 2010
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Mozilla is currently hard at work, in the final stages of the development process for Firefox 3.6, but users that have followed plans for future releases of the open source browser already know that a major graphical user interface overhaul is in the books for Firefox 4.0. Granted, Firefox 4.0 is even by the best est... |
13 January 2010
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The mouse and keyboard aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, but this is not stopping human computer interaction researchers to push the boundaries of UI and deliver new concepts. While the graphical user interface made the keyboard and mouse the core of a worldwide ubiquitous interaction paradigm, the GUI as we ... |
4 January 2010
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Mid-2009 brought with it the first indications that Mozilla was planning a major overhaul of the graphical user interface for the next major iteration of Firefox, namely version 4.0, not 3.6 which is considered only a minor upgrade to v3.5, and not v3.7. It now appears that the efforts done for the Firefox 4.0 GUI re... |
23 December 2009
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Microsoft has kicked up a notch a service designed to let end users build three dimensional spaces of 2D images. At the end of November 2009, the Redmond company introduced the latest update to Photosynth, indicating that users will be able to benefit new graphical user interface elements as well as a boost in perfor... |
2 December 2009
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Undoubtedly, a key aspect of the evolution from Windows Vista to Windows 7 is the new graphical user interface of the operating system. At least equally important, if not even more so, is the way in which, with Windows 7 Microsoft is bringing natural user interfaces to the mainstream. And the Redmond company will co... |
27 November 2009
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Microsoft managed to pour more fuel on the fire driving the perspective that the Redmond company is no longer an innovator but just a follower, by noting that the Windows 7 graphical user interface (GUI) was borrowed from Mac OS X. The software giant was accused on various occasions that it was down-right c... |
12 November 2009
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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. One of the key aspects of this evolution is the Ribbon/Fluent graphical user interface. Microsoft introduced the Ribbon GUI for the first ti... |
19 October 2009
13:41 GMT |
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It has already been confirmed that Mozilla is cooking a redesign of the graphical user interface for the next iterations of its open-source browser. Mockups have already been made public for Firefox 3.7 running on top of the Windows operating system. However, Mozilla has now taken it to the next level and unveiled pl... |
28 July 2009
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Mozilla plans to redesign the graphical user interface of future versions of its open source browser for the Windows operating system. In fact, the initial themes for the Windows theme revamping have already been published, are available via Mozilla Wiki, and are included at the bottom of this article. According to M... |
20 July 2009
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Microsoft is not only cooking the next iteration of Windows client and server operating systems, but also the next version of development solutions tailored to the Windows platforms. The Redmond company already announced that the successor of Visual Studio 2008 would be Visual Studio 2010, and the VSLive! Conference ... |
25 February 2009
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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.... |
28 November 2008
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People will always write articles about which operating system is better. While making comparisons, let’s say, between Windows and OS X, will surely make you a target of fans of either the former or the latter (depending on your approach), I think that stating the obvious pros in regard to OS X will only make ... |
26 November 2008
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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. Previews of what Windows client applications will look and feel like... |
11 November 2008
14:21 GMT |
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Microsoft is laboring to deliver a new level of personalization, choice and control with the Windows 7 desktop, according to Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, Steven Sinofsky. The new graphical user interface designed for the next iteration of the Windows client made its first appeara... |
3 November 2008
16:31 GMT |
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Java GUI Builder is a simple to use application that was designed to help developers spare some time when building their software interfaces from code. With it, you can simply drag and drop buttons and manage them with a single click in order to get the results that you are aiming for.The best thing about this app is... |
15 October 2008
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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. But at the same time, Microsoft is not going to satis... |
6 October 2008
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The Windows 2008 Server Core Configurator, as the label implies, is a tool designed to integrate with the latest iteration of the Windows Server operating system from Microsoft in Server Core deployments scenarios. Windows Server 2008 comes with the option of performing just a bare-bone installation with a mini... |
3 October 2008
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Around 1982, Steve Jobs (currently chief exec at Apple Inc.) was forced out of the Lisa project. While he went on to join the Macintosh project, the Lisa had been released to the public. Contrary to popular belief, the Macintosh is not a direct descendant of Lisa, although the similarities between the two systems wer... |
18 September 2008
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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. In the background of Vista SP1 and XP SP3, Micros... |
28 May 2008
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Generally, web application performance depends on the technology used for their development, browser type, operating system and more. There are many methods available to test the overall performance parameters for an entire web application as well as for the individual components. From the point of view of UI runtim... |
23 May 2008
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Vidalia is a cross-platform controller GUI for Tor. It has been built using the Qt framework and it helps Mac users start and stop Tor, view the status of Tor more conformably, and monitor Tor's bandwidth usage. You can also use Vidalia which, by the way, is open source and a free download, to contribute to the ... |
24 April 2008
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Microsoft is looking to the future of user - computer interaction and of the graphical user interface well beyond its next iteration of the Windows operating system, until 2020. Moving onward with the development of the Windows client, Microsoft is cooking Windows 7, the successor of Windows Vista. The latest Windows... |
3 April 2008
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Microsoft has made available for download a preliminary draft of the Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines. Delivered as a .PDF file weighing in at some 33.8 MB, the Vista UX Guide is a resource addressed at third-party software developers that are building solutions designed to integrate seamlessly with Microsoft... |
29 October 2007
06:55 GMT |
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Office for Mac 2008 is Microsoft's new lineup of offerings involving its Office system transitioned to the Apple platform. Although it was initially planned for 2007, Microsoft ended up postponing Office for Mac 2008 to… well... 2008. However, the Redmond company has started offering sneak peaks at what the next... |
20 September 2007
04:57 GMT |
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While Windows Aero in Windows Vista is indeed the top graphical user interface ever produced by Microsoft, it is also a concept that still holds a great deal of potential. Aero, although Apple has claimed some foul play in relation to Aqua, but none to be had really, indicates the great deal of emphasis and focus tha... |
4 June 2007
11:19 GMT |
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File compression support is present in every operating system, either by default or by installing additional packages once the OS was set-up. Archived files are used for various reasons, from keeping one's hard drive clean, to facilitating multiple file transfers by gathering many files under the same package fi... |
10 April 2007
07:08 GMT |
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