software design

The unmistakable, slightly metallic clack of another bafflingly labeled keyboard key—a veritable harbinger of yet another Microsoft experiment—has become an all-too-familiar sound for those of us who spend our days patrolling the digital frontlines of Windows innovation and user revolt. Yes, I’m...

It’s not every day you wake up, groggily reach for your coffee, and feel a trembling in the very fabric of your digital universe—yet today, that’s exactly what’s happened if you’re a dedicated Windows user. Or, more specifically, if you’re one of the rare but intrepid souls who keeps a keen eye...

Microsoft Reincorporates the Clock into Windows 11 Calendar Flyout: A Balancing Act Between Legacy and Modernity Microsoft's journey from Windows 10 to Windows 11 has been a tale filled with ambitious design shifts as well as some contentious user experience decisions. One of the recent...

In a significant shift in its software design and user experience strategy, Microsoft has officially confirmed that it will be phasing out the Windows Control Panel, an integral part of the Windows operating system since its initial introduction in 1985. This decision comes after nearly 14 years...

Windows 11 has unveiled an exciting new feature for its Start menu— a Category view that promises to enhance app management for users. Recently, participants in the Windows 11 Beta program received a first look at this feature, which is inspired by the layout simplicity found in iOS’s app...

People at various times run into mysterious problems that have no apparent source but are eventually found out to be caused by the innocent use of a file named "aux.txt" or any one of the other reserved file names. It isn't realistic to expect that all users of such an ubiquitous system as...

For some apps (especially games) it is not uncommon for the app to get into a state where it needs to restart – perhaps after a license update, after installing downloadable content, its caches have become corrupt or unwieldy, or for any other reason where the app needs to refresh state from...

Probably one of the most advanced games I've tried recreating. I don't make a lot of games, but the logic here on a matrix was a little convoluted through the development stages. What I mean by fully integrated logic is that the control itself does absolutely everything for you. You can...

By Tim Conneally, Betanews Microsoft has given the public its first glimpse into how it plans to tackle the problem of an "interface agnostic" Windows OS. Link Removed - Invalid URL Link Removed - Invalid URL Link Removed - Invalid URL Link Removed - Invalid URL Link Removed - Invalid...

Scott is in Redmond this week and talks to Jeff Derstadt, the Lead Developer on Entity Framework Code First (or, as Scott says, EF Magic Unicorn). What's the deal with this new feature in Entity Framework? What about the bad rap that EF got back in the day? What's new in EF4 and how does EF Code...

Software design efforts stepped up to support more operating systems Qualcomm on Tuesday said it is stepping up its software efforts as its chips begin supporting more operating systems, including Microsoft's upcoming Windows OS, which will be targeted at mobile devices, tablets and PCs. Link...

I wonder if anyone tried this with the new task of win 7 1. open 2 windows of firefox/internet explorer 2. open another 2 documents of word 3. minimize all of them now, how do we get to the first opened firefox window? or any of the word document? i have to move the cursor to the firefox icon...