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Metro UI Tweaker is a nifty application designed for Windows 8 that can help you apply some customization to the operating system. It is not as complicated as the name might suggest, but it does improve functionality in some areas. Whether it’s about a simple thing such as changing the theme or a more complica... |
12 October 2012
11:51 GMT |
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Immersive Explorer is a file manager designed to replace the default solution provided by Microsoft in Windows 7 and 8 operating systems. What stands out is the fact that all items are displayed as tiles, just like in the Modern UI environment in Windows 8, and it uses graphical hardware acceleration.
The applicatio... |
30 September 2012
02:31 GMT |
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We're only a few weeks away from the public debut of the new Windows 8 operating system, but most tech-savvy users have already had the chance to experience the product thanks to the preview versions of the software.
Leaving the official Windows 8 launch aside, it's worth reminding you that one year ago Mi... |
14 September 2012
07:50 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Windows 8 platform is shaping up as a great operating system for all users out there, including those who are considering the adoption of the Windows RT flavor of the software.
Windows 8 reinvents Windows, Microsoft has been long touting, mainly due to a new approach to the user interface and expe... |
7 September 2012
08:57 GMT |
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Windows 8 will land on the market with a nice range of applications from Microsoft packed inside, and with access to some more of them coming from the company itself.
One of these would be Skype, redesigned to take full advantage of the new Modern UI design principles that Microsoft has come up with for the platfor... |
17 August 2012
05:22 GMT |
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Windows 8, the next-generation operating system from Microsoft, will arrive on the market with a brand new interface when compared to the previous Windows releases.
So far called “Metro,” the UI appears to have got a new name, mainly due to a trademark infringement, some of the latest reports on the mat... |
10 August 2012
08:46 GMT |
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Last week, we heard rumors on the possibility that Microsoft would aim at putting an end to the use of the term "Metro" in relation to the new user interface in Windows 8.
Rumor has it that, due to some possible trademark dispute, Microsoft would be set not only to stop using the term, but also to impose to applica... |
6 August 2012
10:15 GMT |
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While preparing for the upcoming availability of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, Microsoft has made changes to yet another product to bring it in line with the Metro interface on these platforms, namely Hotmail.
Today, Microsoft’s online service can be upgraded to Outlook.com with a single click, providing user... |
1 August 2012
03:32 GMT |
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Windows 8 did not offer too many customization options for the Metro-style Start Screen in the pre-release versions that we had the chance to try out until now, but that should change in the final flavor of the platform, rumor has it.
In fact, it appears that the Windows 8 RTM flavor that is expected to become avai... |
31 July 2012
08:07 GMT |
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One of the promises that Microsoft made regarding its Windows 8 platform was that users would benefit from a great visual experience on all devices that run under the platform.
The WinRT app development environment made it possible for all developers to take advantage of hardware-accelerated graphics to deliver mor... |
24 July 2012
05:56 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Windows RT operating system, the Windows 8 flavor that runs on ARM-based devices, is expected to become available to more OEMs starting with January.
Right now, only a small number of companies have access to the platform, as Microsoft is reportedly looking into limiting variations.
At the momen... |
24 July 2012
03:29 GMT |
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Windows Store, the application portal through which Windows 8 users will be able to find and download Metro-style applications for their computers, now lists a brand new SkyDrive application. The same as with other software available through the portal, the new app was supposed to be designed in line with the WinRT... |
16 July 2012
13:51 GMT |
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Windows 8 proposes a new approach to building applications, and Microsoft is determined to explain developers that they can design great software in line with the new philosophy. We’re referring here to the Metro-style apps, those which will be distributed to users all around the world through the Windows Sto... |
12 July 2012
10:24 GMT |
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A theme called “Metroon” can be downloaded from the ModMyi repo for just $1.50 (about €1.2) for the sole reason of slapping the Windows 8 Metro UI on your iPhone. The tile-centric user interface is indeed a sight, especially on Apple hardware. The theme doesn’t alter the functionality of the h... |
11 July 2012
04:34 GMT |
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Microsoft is getting ready for the release of a new major flavor of its Office productivity suite, one that will arrive on the market as Office 2013, and which was already confirmed to land in Beta this summer. The application will bring along a variety of improvements, none of which have been specifically mentione... |
4 July 2012
05:45 GMT |
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Windows 8 will come to the market with a series of applications that appear to be essential to any platform designed for mobile use out there. Among them, we can count the Contacts app, the Messaging app, a Calendar app and other similar software, along with a Photos app, all designed under the same Metro-style pri... |
3 July 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Windows 8 is Windows redesigned, Microsoft claims, while also saying that this involves a reshaped experience when it comes to applications. Applications that run on the desktop won’t be much affected by the graphical changes in Windows 8, but all changes when it comes to software designed for the Metro UI. ... |
3 July 2012
10:15 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is betting even more money on the Metro interface that is dominating the Windows 8 and Windows Phone platform. Following a long range of rumors that it will bring Metro to its web services, Microsoft has officially confirmed that this would indeed happen. The company launched... |
2 July 2012
10:53 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Office 2013 productivity suite is expected to become available in a beta flavor later this summer, with a nice range of goodies packed inside, including a new, Metro-fied user interface. We already had the chance to have a look at some of the visual changes that Microsoft plans on packing inside t... |
2 July 2012
06:00 GMT |
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Windows 8's Metro UI will soon take over most of Microsoft's products, including cloud platforms, services and developer tools. In fact, some design elements from the Metro UI already made their way into a series of these products, although not the entire UI can be seen on them. However, the main focus is... |
27 June 2012
01:44 GMT |
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One of the great features that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 10 browser arrived with in Windows 8 Release Preview was support for websites featuring Adobe Flash Content. Microsoft and Adobe worked closely on the inclusion of a new power-optimized, touch-friendly Adobe Flash Player in Windows 8 RP, so as to ex... |
23 June 2012
06:21 GMT |
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Microsoft has been long rumored to plan a revamp of its Windows Live services, so as to bring them in line with the new design philosophy in Windows 8, and more confirmation on the matter is now available. Following a long series of reports on the possible changes that Microsoft would be set to bring to the aforemen... |
23 June 2012
05:51 GMT |
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Windows 8’s Metro-Style Mail application is another major selling point that Microsoft has been touting for the upcoming operating system. The software was designed to provide users with the possibility to easily stay productive at all times through offering support for multiple accounts, push notifications, ... |
18 June 2012
10:54 GMT |
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What might prove to be the future logos that we’ll see on Windows 8 compatible devices have made an appearance online last week. Microsoft revealed the Windows 8 logo back in February this year, claiming that it opened a new, simpler and clearer perspective on its product. The same Windows 8 logo that you m... |
18 June 2012
07:21 GMT |
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Windows 8 has been long said to arrive on devices with a great deal of enhancements, which make it fit for the title of “mobile platform”, such as the People app that was detailed only a few days ago.
Today, Microsoft offers an overview of another application that is meant to deliver a great experience ... |
16 June 2012
12:01 GMT |
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One of the major changes that Microsoft announced for Windows 8’s interface was the lack of the Aero Glass that users were already accustomed to in Windows 7 or Windows Vista. The Redmond-based software giant said that this change is bound to result in a nicer, cleaner look of the desktop in Windows 8, and th... |
14 June 2012
04:03 GMT |
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Microsoft is still keeping mum on the next major release of its Office productivity suite, but it let slip today at the TechEd North America 2012 conference in Orlando that it would be called Office 2013. At the end of the keynote, the company briefly demoed Office 2013 for Windows RT devices, confirming previous r... |
12 June 2012
10:39 GMT |
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Windows 8 will arrive with improved connectivity capabilities, better social networking, and support for new, appealing applications, as well as with various media features, Microsoft says.
For a platform designed to power a new range of mobile computers, it was only natural for it to deliver great entertainment ca... |
9 June 2012
06:59 GMT |
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Microsoft has been long rumored to plan bringing the Metro user interface to more of its products, and some more info on the changes that Hotmail would suffer as part of this process hasjust emerged.
We already had the chance to have a look at some of the modifications that Microsoft was planning for the service to... |
9 June 2012
06:36 GMT |
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There are still several months until Windows 8 is released, but developers are not wasting any time, the big ones anyway, and are doing their best to adapt to the new Metro UI. Mozilla is already working on a Metro version of Firefox and now Google has announced that it has a version of Chrome for the new Windows env... |
7 June 2012
16:40 GMT |
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Windows 8 is set to become commercially available sometime this fall, when leading vendors around the world will put for sale their latest devices powered by the platform. Microsoft has long promised amazing hardware running Windows 8, and the Computex tradeshow in Taipei has brought some of these to the spotlight.... |
4 June 2012
10:39 GMT |
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Today, Microsoft made available not only a new version of their Windows 8 platform, namely the Release Preview, but also the latest flavor of its Windows Store, through which users can download and install applications specifically designed for the Metro UI of the OS. The Windows Store comes with a unique app catal... |
1 June 2012
07:26 GMT |
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In addition to the wide range of other changes that the almost-here Release Preview of Windows 8 is expected to pack in terms of performance and visual design, there might also be some that could make some users very unhappy. Apparently, Microsoft has decided to put an end to the possibility to come up with third-p... |
31 May 2012
10:18 GMT |
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When launched later this year, Windows 8, Microsoft’s next-generation operating system, will benefit from access to a variety of applications available through the Windows Store. The Redmond-based software giant has started working on the app portal a long time ago, and it has been constantly pushing develope... |
29 May 2012
05:20 GMT |
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Windows Live, Microsoft’s online set of services, is getting through a major makeover, aimed at bringing it in line with the upcoming Windows 8 platform. Microsoft has been already rumored to plan slapping Windows Live with the Metro UI found in Windows 8 and Windows Phone before it, and it seems that things ... |
28 May 2012
08:58 GMT |
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Windows 8’s Metro-style Internet Explorer 10 was designed without support for plugins, Microsoft announced a few months back, but it seems that things are not entirely so. According to the latest rumors on the matter, the Redmond-based software company is currently working on packing support for Adobe’s... |
24 May 2012
08:57 GMT |
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One of the major interface changes that Microsoft will include in Windows 8 compared to the previous versions of its desktop platform is the lack of Aero Glass. The company introduced this UI in Windows Vista and refined it in Windows 7 and in the first versions of Windows 8, but it will no longer pack it inside th... |
22 May 2012
10:02 GMT |
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Windows 8, the next-gen platform from Microsoft, arrives on devices with a new approach to user experience, through introducing a new interface, called Metro. On certain architectures, it will retain the older desktop mode as well, but it will come only with the Metro UI on others, such as devices that are powered ... |
21 May 2012
10:43 GMT |
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When released in a final flavor later this year, Windows 8 will bring along a new approach to using the PC by introducing a wide range of touch optimizations.
The platform will arrive with a wide range of changes when compared to what previous versions of Windows had to offer, including an always-on, always-connect... |
19 May 2012
06:30 GMT |
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Windows 8 is nearing its availability in a final flavor, and Microsoft is ensuring that developers have at hand all the necessary resources to get started with the building of applications for it. The latest of these is the Windows 8 Camp in a Box, Consumer Preview Edition pack, which includes a series of hands-on-... |
16 May 2012
13:01 GMT |
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The final release of Windows 8 is drawing near, and Microsoft is working on ensuring that the platform is capable of providing users with the features and capabilities they are looking for. Thus, it wants to make sure that a load of Metro applications will be available for download for Windows 8 right from the start... |
10 May 2012
05:57 GMT |
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Among the features that applications built for Microsoft’s new Windows 8 operating system can benefit from, we can count fast and fluid animations. Animations are an integral part of the user experience in Windows 8 Consumer Preview, and developers can take advantage of them to deliver more appealing apps that ... |
2 May 2012
10:50 GMT |
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Microsoft is in love with the Metro UI. It already adopted it for various products, starting with Windows Phone and going all the way to Windows 8, and appears set to throw it over more of them. Windows Live is also said to be en-route to get a taste of the new user interface, and some screenshots that allegedly sh... |
13 April 2012
05:46 GMT |
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Splashtop Inc. has released a 20-dollar app that promises to be the only piece of iPad software that allows you to experience the true Windows 8 Metro UI on your Apple device. “Win8 Metro Testbed - powered by Splashtop” is available at a special price for a limited time (the app regularly sells for $49.99... |
12 April 2012
16:51 GMT |
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One of the major changes that Microsoft introduced in Windows 8 Consumer Preview when compared to previous Windows releases was the lack of a Start button.
The move was not received well by all Windows users, since many missed the functionality it offered, but it appears that the Redmond-based software giant will ... |
31 March 2012
05:51 GMT |
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One of the applications bound to bring along a series of changes when coupled with the upcoming Windows 8 platform is Outlook.
As part of Office 15, the next-generation productivity suite from Microsoft, the application will deliver optimizations for use on touchscreen devices, and will also provide an experience ... |
20 March 2012
12:02 GMT |
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Microsoft appears set to prove to the world that Windows 8 was indeed meant to fit the needs of both consumers and enterprise users alike.
At Microsoft Convergence 2012, the company brought business applications specifically designed to take full advantage of the capabilities of the new platform.
We have already... |
20 March 2012
10:18 GMT |
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With Windows 8, Microsoft introduces a new approach to the building of applications for its client, as well as to what using such applications involves.
Windows 8 comes with a new interface included into the mix, the Metro UI, which has been developed specifically for touchscreen displays.
This means that develo... |
19 March 2012
14:31 GMT |
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In January, Microsoft kicked off the technical preview availability of the upcoming Office 15 application, allowing only a small number of people to get a taste of the new features and capabilities packed with it.
Office 15 is the next version of Microsoft’s productivity suite, and it should arrive on Window... |
16 March 2012
11:23 GMT |
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In Windows 8, Internet Explorer is meant to deliver a brand new level of web browsing to its users, by combining the traditional features with new, Metro-style capabilities. For example, it offers full-screen browsing, along with navigation tiles for fast access to your web history or to popular websites while on ... |
14 March 2012
18:41 GMT |
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