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Metro UI. For all we know will be an integral part of the Windows 8 operating system. Part of Metro UI is a tile based design that you may have seen on one of the new Windows phones or on a screenshot of the new operating system. The tile based design is controversial, and it is not clear how it will be implemented in the new operating system.
Windows 7 users who like the idea of adding tiles to their operating system for easier access to features, information and programs can now download and run a program called Pulmon which brings the design to the Windows 7 operating system.
Pulmon is currently offered as a beta version. Make sure you create a backup of your important files before you run the program. While we did not experience any issues on our systems, it is still important to have the means to recover the OS if you should experience some on yours.
The program displays the available tiles in the upper half of the interface on first start. All tiles there are currently not displayed on the desktop. A click moves them to the lower half of the interface, and at the same time on the desktop. You can now move the tile freely on the desktop until you find a suitable location for it.
Here is a list of supported tiles in this version of Pulmon. The developer has made an announcement to add more features and tiles in future versions of the program.
- Internet Explorer, Control Panel, Users – Open
- Date and Time
- System State – Shutdown, Restart, Hibernate and Lock
- Webby – Tech site links
- System Information
Pulmon needs to be running in the background. When you close the application, the tiles disappear as well. The biggest issues currently are the lack of customizations and the small selection of tiles available.
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The program is compatible with all 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7 versions. (via)
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In a move that few people expected, Microsoft have released an updates build of their new Windows Phone update, Mango, to developers through the Connect beta site along with a new beta 2 software development kit (SDK).
In a blog post the company announced…
“If that isn’t exciting enough, we’ve also pushed an OS update to the Microsoft Update servers this morning, allowing you to refresh retail Windows Phones that devs updated to Mango over the last month. If you previously updated.”
They go on to say that the new update is “Build 7712, which corresponds to today’s WPSDK 7.1 release. Before you ask (and I know you will, because folks started asking yesterday 
), this build is not yesterday’s RTM build – it’s still a pre-release build. For RTM, you’ll need to wait for the official update like everyone else (more on the why later in the post).”
Anybody with the Mango update on their phone already, as I do, will be able to install the beta 2 update easily through the Zune desktop software without having to download an install any additional software from the Connect website.
The update isn’t the full RTM (Release to Manufacturing) version of the update. In the post Microsoft explained why they’ve not provided this as the update went RTM yesterday.
“For the folks wondering why we’re not providing the ‘RTM’ version, there are two main reasons. First, the phone OS and the tools are two equal parts of the developer toolkit that correspond to one another. When we took this snapshot for the refresh, we took the latest RC drops of the tools and the corresponding OS version. Second, what we are providing is a genuine release candidate build, with enough code checked in and APIs locked down that this OS is close enough to RTM that, as a developer, it’s more than capable to see you through the upcoming RC drop of the tools and app submission. It’s important to remember that until the phone and mobile operator portion of Mango is complete, you’re still using a pre-release on your retail phone – no matter the MS build. Until that time, enjoy developing and cruising around on build 7712 – it’s a sweet ride, to be sure.”
This means that the very final developer SDK isn’t yet available for download and can be expected in the coming months. The beta 2 refresh helps give developers a head start on apps for Mango.
The update to the phone itself takes only around 10 minutes and, having just installed it myself I’m off now to see what’s new
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I know many of our readers here at Windows7news are looking forward to Windows 8 as much as we are. We’re all eager to try out Windows 8 but chances are we won’t be seeing any beta release until September at the earliest. Still that doesn’t mean we can’t try and experience Windows 8 now.
Based on all the various different builds, exclusive previews etc… there is now a great skin available for Windows 7 users which turns your desktop into Windows 8. It also includes the new Windows 8 Tablet UI.
I’ve done a full write up about it over on Windows8news so head on over now to see more and download this brilliant Windows 8 skin for Windows 7.
Click Here for the Windows 8 Skin
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Windows 8 build 7989 introduced a new boot screen, replacing the animated Windows logo of Windows 7 with a simpler circle animation, more akin to the animated dots of Windows Phone.
Now a clever person over at DeviantArt has created three versions of the Windows 8 beta boot loader for Windows 7, and it’s easy and simple to update it too.
To install a new boot screen for Windows 7 follow these instructions…
- Download latest Boot Updater
- Download the new Boot screen files
- Unpack the files from the archive
- Run the Windows 7 Boot Updater
- Under the File menu select Save boot skin as… to back up your current boot screen in case something goes wrong
- Under the File menu select Load boot skin…
- Navigate to the appropriate .bs7 file
- Click Apply
This is certainly different as boot loaders go but it won’t be to everyone’s taste. Few people will argue that the Windows 7 boot loader is pretty, and the new Windows 8 boot loader by contrast is quite basic and perhaps even a bit dull.
It will be interesting to see if Microsoft keep this for the final build of Windows 8 or if it will change by the time the formal beta begins, which I expect to be in January 2012. You can see a video of the new boot screen from LYSY777 below.
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