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Dan Tynan of PC World just awarded Office 2007 with a big lump of coal as part of PC World’s 15 biggest technological disappointments of 2007 awards. I’m severely disappointed in this, especially given that the stated rationale is that the Ribbon ...
Steven Hodson and Long Zheng wrote yesterday about whether Microsoft is becoming less open and transparent than they were a few years ago: the post-Robert Scoble era, as he put it. Apparently, a new position entitled Director of Windows Client Dis...
A while back, I created a table detailing every system color from every official Windows theme in existence. I keep moving or misplacing this page for some reason, but the link below works: Here’s the table of Windows system colors in its entire...
I just heard about a fantastic hands-on lab you can download that walks you through building a replica of Outlook 2007’s user interface in WPF. It’s fantastic to see such detailed, useful examples of building Avalon content finally coming out. Bei...
Remember Origami, the overhyped ultra-mobile pc? It was supposed to retail for super-cheap, and be a fantastic extension of your existing in-home PC infrastructure. Unfortunately, the devices ended up retailing for about a thousand bucks instead. ...
One of my favorite adages in software development is that the first 90% of your project takes 90% of the time; The last 10% takes the other 90% of the time (my other favorite is “time, quality, features: pick two”). I discovered this firsthand a l...
No, I don’t think it is. On the contrary, Windows Media Player 11 is actually my favorite media player on the market, handily beating iTunes 7 in terms of speed, usability, and aesthetics. That said, as it was put in MS Tech Today: I’m confused ab...
I went looking for a concise guide to all of the default Windows system colors at work on Friday, but couldn’t find one anywhere. So…I decided to create my own. The table below shows you what the default values are for Windows’ system color palett...
The Windows Shell team has a new aggregated blog at shellrevealed.com, which includes posts from everyone from Raymond Chen to Dave Vronay. A great way to stay on top of what’s happening with the team that is most critical to the Windows user expe...
(yeah ok, I haven’t quite figured out what innovation means to me yet. I’m still thinking about it.) Jensen Harris had an interesting post on his blog yesterday about what it took in Office 2003 to maintain the color schemes presented on Windows ...
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