usability

Seems the new build is not tablet friendly when using the virtual keyboard and getting to the entire screen.

According to Mary Jo Foley Microsoft intends to release the developer preview of windows Threshold either late September or early October: Read the full blog here: http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-to-deliver-windows-threshold-tech-preview-around-late-september-7000032668/ Edit: If your...

I need to use this program for my programing class, each window search a different task. My problem is, it is very difficult to switch between those opened windows because they all look the same. When I go down the list, there is no animation show the list move because every window's name is...

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Today Friend of the Gallery is back, today with a cool control you can use in your next Kinect for Windows WPF app. Other recent Gallery Posts for Vangos Pterneas; Understanding the Kinect Coordinate Mapping, with a little help from Vangos Pterneas Looking at the Kinect for Windows v2 Color...

Hi, Could someone please tell me what the difference, if any, there are between installing an original English version of Windows 7 (or 8 for that matter) and installing an English Language Pack through Windows Update? So far, I just understand that I need either an Ultimate or Enterprise...

A quick walkthrough of how to configure and manage Microsoft Windows Home Server. In this walkthrough, we detail the process of client configuration, useability, and management regarding Home Server.

A quick walkthrough of how to perform an installation of Microsoft Windows Home Server. In this walkthrough, we detail the early process of installation, but in subsequent videos we will go through both configuration, usability, and management of Home Server.

why do we have the option to perform the operation copy or cut or paste once at a time ...?? windows can create new option so that we can copy or cut more than once and we can easily paste exactly which one we need from the copied or cut item .. -its just an idea ..

When I open a video folder and click on “More Options” and then “Details”, in the Details view, one sees 4 columns: Name, Date, Type, and Size for an flv file. But I can create many more columns for an mp4 file than for an flv file. Let me explain. For an mp4 file one may see Length. In...

Since the new changes have been implemented the post reply box is now gone from the thread. So now in order to reply to a post, you click on reply which takes you to a new screen where you can reply, as if it's the advanced reply box but does not have the original post to look at. Where the...

Today Microsoft released updates for the metro Mail, People, Calendar, Messaging and Xbox Music & Video. These updates bring some long awaited fixes and feature improvements to the platform apps. The Mail, Messaging, Calendar and People app combo received the following improvements (pulled from...

Hello My Link Removed is a win7 Gateway NV59 Processor: Intel(r) Core(TM) i3 cpu M330 @ 2.13GHz 2.13GHz RAM: 4.00 GB (3.86 GB usable) System type: 64-bit Opeating System 2 days ago this laptop was working fine good barely any lagg or anything being slow. Suddenly the next day in the morning as...

Today, we released Security Advisory 2794220 regarding an issue that impacts Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8. We are only aware of a very small number of targeted attacks at this time. This issue allows remote code execution if users browse to a malicious website with an affected browser. This...

Would it be nice to have a shortcut which would show you a form with all the keyboard shortcuts in Windows 8? Alternatively have a search charm that lets you list them by name? We are in the process of finding out if this would be a viable application/feature in Windows 8. Thanks for...

Link Removed Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice & Power Users (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

I was reading a review of Windows 8. Usability expert finds Windows 8 on a PC confusing - GadgetBox on NBCNews.com In it the person says "Windows 8 is optimized for content consumption rather than content production and multitasking. Whereas content consumption can easily be done on other...

Today we released Security Advisory 2757760 to address an issue that affects Internet Explorer 9 and earlier versions if a user views a website hosting malicious code. Internet Explorer 10 is not affected. We have received reports of only a small number of targeted attacks and are working to...

Hi At least for now I'm giving up on Google Chrome. I've had nothing but problems with it for the last 6 months. I get popups that are supposed to be blocked, it won't display some pages correctly, like the top of this page, which just comes out as a large blank area, the spell checker is lame...

Which is preferred? Going to All APPs (screen) for things Link Removed OR having this folder on the Taskbar? Link Removed Just curious. Cheers, Drew Link Removed