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Windows Vista Review: Windows Vista Features, User Interface Features

Saturday, November 18th, 2006

For many of those interested in Windows Vista, it all boils down to the features: The applications, services, and other embedded functionality that, at a clinical level at least, makes up the whole of your next operating system. Fair enough. In this part of the review, I’ll provide a complete run-down of Vista’s most important [...]

Windows Vistas Integrated Desktop Search is a winner

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

By now you probably know that one of the great technologies in Windows Vista is the new Integrated Desktop Search feature, which is designed to make it extremely easy to find files on your hard disk no matter where they’re stored. You probably also know that Microsoft recently released Windows Desktop Search 3.0 for Windows [...]

Visual Tour: Vistas new UI

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

The first thing you might notice upon loading Windows Vista for the first time is the new Welcome screen, which replaces the XP Welcome screen. (If you’re running Vista with just a single user account and no password, you won’t see the Welcome screen; it appears only if you have multiple user accounts or after [...]

The Windows Vista Interface

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

Whenever Microsoft releases a new operating system, the one thing anyone seems to want to talk about is the new interface. What does it look like? Is it cool? Can I run it? On the surface this seems superficial because, after all, Windows is and should be more than just a pretty interface. Don’t things [...]

Microsoft Taking Vista UI Feedback

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

With Release Candidate 1 now out the door, Microsoft is putting what it calls the "fit-and-finish" on Windows Vista’s user interface, and the company is looking for feedback from users testing out the beta release.
Dave Vronay, a research manager with the Windows User Experience Compliance team, says Microsoft is taking a lot of time to [...]

Windows Vista: The choose your own adventure UI

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

Some of you may, and some of you may not, (so that’s everybody) know Windows Vista has 4 tiers of user interface experience, from the best to worst: [tag]Aero Glass[/tag], [tag]Vista Standard[/tag], [tag]Vista Basic[/tag] and [tag]Windows Classic[/tag]. So why so many? Who knows, graphics designers unemployment at an all time low in Redmond? But regardless [...]