Metro, the new Windows 8 interface, is causing an equal measure of excitement and consternation across the Web. The new tablet-style interface that uses tiles to launch your favorite applications — ...
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Was Windows 8 really that bad? I gave it another shot 13 years later
Microsoft blended the Windows 7 interface with its new Metro UI. Metro UI was entirely different from the UIs Windows had ...
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Love it or hate it, Windows 8's controversial UI just landed on Linux
Windows 8 was perhaps the most controversial release from Microsoft in recent decades. Some praised its UI, while others ...
A U.K. design team recruited 14 Windows users and subjected them to the new Windows 8 interface. Apparently none of them cottoned to it immediately. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology ...
Start Menu is for those (the majority) who don't need to pin a thousand programs. They just need a few and they prefer to have an unobstructed view of their desktop while they hit a link to small ...
Built from the ground up to take full advantage of the Windows 8 new user interface, the app features Windows 8 design principles, leverages rapid gesture-based zoom, pan, and navigation, ...
An expert on user interface design has called Windows 8 “disappointing” for novices and power users alike. Jakob Nielsen, principal of the Nielsen Norman Group, studied how a dozen experienced PC ...
Microsoft is poised to release Windows 8.1, a deep and crucial revamping of the Windows 8 ideal. The code is final (though Microsoft reserves the right to tweak it further), and the time for ...
I like writing about Windows 8. But every time I do — like right now, as I’ve been working on a post on Windows 8.1 — I’m bedeviled by the same conundrum. It’s minor but aggravating, and it confronts ...
Microsoft’s decision to take a radical departure in the user interface of Windows 8 has many of its customers asking the same question. Microsoft has always had downgrade rights in place for its ...
Ahh, the Windows Explorer progress dialog. For years it has been struggling to figure out how to calculate how long our copy and delete operations would take, sliding the progress bar back and forth ...
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