ui design

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft Corp. Windows president Steven Sinofsky previewed a touchscreen version of the operating system that can work on tablets, offering a glimpse of his company’s response to Apple Inc.’s iPad. Windows 8 resembles Microsoft’s software for mobile phones and uses “tiles,” rather...

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Clint discuss the week's top developer news, including: John Papa - Mix11 3D HouseBuilder Silverlight application is now available Kirill Osenkov - Link Removed now available for WP7 Jef Claes - Link Removed WebMatrix site Somasegar - Link Removed IE Team blog -...

Assume I have an open Windows Explorer and just deleted/added a folder. Now I (have to) press F5 to refresh the view. Depending on which part/half of the Windows Explorer has currently the focus only the tree view on the left OR the details view on the right get refreshed. The other part...

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. Source: Yahoo! News

Microsoft is experimenting with a ribbon interface for parts of Windows 8, and we have a gallery of leaked screenshots showing examples of an ea… Link Removed

Yes, the Windows 8 rumour mill is really spinning up now. This time around though, they're not really rumours, since the information is coming from Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott, long-time Microsoft enthusiasts with loads of insider access. They've got a bunch of screenshots showing a work in...

Supersite </br/> Ribbon usage is accelerating again in Windows 8, with Microsoft's next major OS including this UI in the most visible of all possible places, Windows Explorer. In early builds of Windows 8, this Ribbon UI is only half-finished, however, and it's unclear at this time how it...

Google is going to launch Android 3.0 which is new and enhanced version of Google's Mobile Operating System. It is specifically optimized for devices with larger screen sizes, particularly tablets and introduces a brand new, truly virtual and “holographic” UI design, as well as an elegant...

It wasn't supposed to be this way. But arbitrary limitations -- some of which you may not be aware of -- are sending this Windows Phone back to its maker When I first saw the demos of Windows Phone 7, I was psyched. My iPhone is getting long in the tooth, and I was ready for a change. The...

Want to build a Bing web and image search using Silverlight for Windows Phone 7? Kirupa Chinnathambi of the Expression team shows you just how to do that in this week's episode. Kirupa covers a lot of topics as he builds the app, including how to: wire up the app add the image templates use...

The appearance of the cards in Windows 7 is hideous. They used to be so crystal clear and beautiful and readable. Now I just sit here and squint and curse. I am an inveterate card player, and have been all my life. I play duplicate bridge on 2 web sites. This is the equivalent of being...

Remember the little cute puppy dog that wags it's tail while you do a search in Windows explorer? (Maybe some still have it) I think Microsoft's BSOD sometimes give people heart attacks and should be replaced with a puppy dog that wags it's tail and holds up a paper that has all the information...

Macos X for windows 7 . Macos X is a Mac OS X port for WIndows 7, made by idas = ZEUS osX. (Pavlos Pitselas). Macos (1)word meaning : 'mecos'= length in ancient Athenian also Ionian language and in Byzantine and in nowdays Greek, and 'macos' in doric and aeolian ancient greek dialects and...

So what I need to do, where change in regedit MAXIMUM COUNT OF CHARACTERS FOR NAME OF THE ICON? I want that, icons in Win 7 in folders would be shown exactly in THE SAME WAY like they are in Win XP in Icons View. Link Removed Namely if I set in Win 7 Small Icons i got a list, Medium...

looking at the screen shots and having tried it for a few minutes, i think one aspect in particular is a step backwards aesthetically. that change being the windows Start button icon. when Vista came out with the circular start button that slightly overlapped the rectangular taskbar i thought...