Author Archive for Long Zheng
Microsoft on the hunt for a new look?
Update 2: The original image has been removed by request. I’ve replaced it with an artist’s sketch, or an attempt at a sketch, for the record. A set of string-themed logos for Microsoft’s many brands teased at the Microsoft Global Exchange (MGX) event today might actually be one of many concepts the company has considered [...]
Photoshop your own Windows Phone 7 applications
It looks like Microsoft is not just making the Windows Phone 7 application development experience easy for developers, but it turns out designers have most of their job cut out for them. If you need to mock up an application UI for Windows Phone 7, it’s now as easy as mashing up some Photoshop files [...]
Windows Phone 7 SDK beta emulator walkthrough
At the Microsoft Worldwide Partners Conference 2010 yesterday, the Windows Phone 7 team took the opportunity to announce the beta release of its developer tools, another significant milestone for the platform as it inches closer to consumer availability. As expected, this release includes an updated version of the emulator image (build 6414) for developers to [...]
Thoughts on WPF 4.0 from a novice
Anyone who still reminisce about Longhorn-era codenames will probably agree they are much better than their official counterparts. Not only did “Avalon” sound cool, it has a certain utopian ring to it. Now in it’s fourth revision, Windows Presentation Foundation 4.0 is pitched as the state-of-the-art framework for building graphically-rich desktop clients on Windows. When [...]
“Arc Touch Mouse” surfaces – Microsoft to launch multi-touch mouse?
Microsoft might be introducing a multi-touch mouse of its own tomorrow soon as several European retailers (specifically those in Norway and Denmark) have begun publishing listings for a product dubbed the “Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse” with the product code RVF-00003. Notably Microsoft also registered the domain “arctouchmouse.com” late March which is currently pointed to the [...]