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Windows 8 Explorer gets a ribbon, everybody gets a ribbon

Long Zheng — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 04:11:17 +0000

I’m still reserving judgement on the ribbon UI in Windows 8′s Explorer application until I can spend some time using it. Nevertheless I can still appreciate a ribbon when I see one, a real one. Thanks to a heads up from Richard Burte, Ilana Smith, an Aussie (oi oi oi) Microsoft designer who works on [...]

Radial menu love for Bing Visual Search prototype

Long Zheng — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:56:23 +0000

Radial menus, otherwise known as pie menus, don’t get enough love and this prototype for Bing Visual Search proves it. Although a couple years old, this concept made by designer John DiMartile demonstrates an interesting wheel-based UI for Bing Visual Search, the feature for discovering subjects and topics. He notes, Tasked with coming up with [...]

Windows 8: Multiple desktops, smart sticky notes, and more

Microsoft Windows News — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:18:49 +0000

New Windows 8 UI concepts have now come to light. Will Microsoft actually implement these or will they fall by the wayside? Biography Biography Biography Andrew J. Nusca is an associate editor for ZDNet and SmartPlanet.

‘Liberate’ for the Zune HD unlocks hidden Windows CE potential

Microsoft Windows News — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 07:45:46 +0000

Sure, we just spent the last four or five years chiding Microsoft for its anachronistic Windows CE interface, a UI which was holding Windows Mobile back in a post-stylus world, but now that Windows Phone 7 is here we get to start feeling all nostalgic,...

“Photoshop-lite” editor Paint.NET 3.5 released

Microsoft Windows News — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:57:30 +0000

Freeware favourite sees major patch, improved performance, updated UI and lots more Our personal favourite photo editing program saw a major automatic update roll out just now: Paint.NET is now at version 3.5. With the patch comes lots of goodness, including heavily improved performance , an updated UI , new effects, and lots of fixes and tweaks.