If you're on the edge of your seat, waiting for next week's expected reveal of the Windows 8 interface by Steven Sinofsky, Bloomberg added a few more details today.
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Microsoft Windows lead Steven Sinofsky's Windows 8 tablet demo at the D9 show next week could show it off on a non-Intel chip, a trio of insiders said Thursday. An NVIDIA Tegra chip, presumably a dual-core Tegra 2, would power a prototype tablet demonstrating the new interface. Few other details...
We may be getting our first taste of Microsoft’s much anticipated Windows 8 tablet OS interface very soon. We previously reported that a preview of the platform would likely happen in June. And indeed, Microsoft Windows chief, Steven Sinofsky, has just been confirmed to appear at next week’s D9...
A rumor on Monday suggested that Microsoft might show Windows 8's tablet interface at the D9 conference next week. Windows group leader Steven Sinofsky, who was just today confirmed to be an interview guest at the show, is now rumored to be giving the Immersive UI its first public display. The...
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Over the past several weeks, videos and screenshots of preview and developer builds of Windows 8 have leaked all over the Web. The most recent video to make an appearance shows us the system settings for Metro UI, or the interface elements that most users will recognize from Windows Phone 7...
# customization If you like the new look of Lion, you're out of luck on a Mac but oddly in luck if you own a Windows 7 PC. Lion Skin Pack is an easily installable set of GUI customizations for Windows 7 that make Windows look just like the next generation Mac operating system. More »
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Some special icons (like user folder on desktop) can't be changed, apparently, because no "properties" menu item appear in right-click context menu.
Is there some way or tool to achieve this?
Now, I realize that there are bloggers out there that will take Microsoft to task over something they have done, or poke fun at Microsoft, in order to get pageviews. Some do it when it is justified, or when seems funny at the moment (we’ve done both) and then there are those like MG Siegler...
Microsoft's next desktop platform, Windows 8, is expected to take some interface cues from Windows Phone 7. Will something that works well on a tiny screen scale up to a larger monitor?
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Vendor reportedly bringing ribbon interface to Windows 8 The Windows 8 rumour mill is heating up, with talk that Microsoft has begun shipping to hardware makers an early build of the OS with a 'ribbon' interface, enhanced support for tablets and a backup feature similar to the Time Machine...
The Windows 8 rumor mill is heating up, with talk that Microsoft has begun shipping to hardware makers an early build of the OS with a "ribbon" interface, enhanced support for tablets and a backup feature similar to the "Time Machine" available in Apple 's Mac OS X.
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Screenshots of Microsoft's next operating system are starting to leak, but most of them haven't shown very much -- they've mostly been new start screens or set-up screens with a slightly different font.
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We've already seen Evoluce toy around with using a Kinect to control Windows, but it's now taken things one step further with its new "Win & I" software, which promises to let anyone do the same with minimal effort. That comes in both a home edition that offers gesture controls for Windows 7...
Microsoft's released a preview build of Windows 8 to some of its partners - and several of those partners have helpfully released it to the press, revealing a new ribbon interface. read more
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