user interface design

Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen said on June 1, 2026, that Windows 8’s internal placeholder for its new user interface was “the modern experience,” a plain development-era label used to distinguish it from Windows 7’s “classic experience” before abbreviations like MoSh, MoGo, MoSet, and MoCo...

Microsoft appears to be preparing one of the most consequential reversals in Windows 11’s user interface story: internal reporting and multiple industry outlets say engineers are prototyping the return of a movable and resizable Taskbar — the long-missing customization that lets people dock the...

A large, preregistered randomized study from the University of Oxford has delivered a sobering verdict: while today’s large language models (LLMs) can store and generate medical knowledge at benchmark-beating levels, they routinely fail when paired with real people seeking medical advice —...