Nobody likes slow or unresponsive apps. Users expect that apps respond immediately to touch, taps, clicks, gestures and key-presses. Users expect that animations are smooth, that they can play, pause and restart
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The app lifecycle model in Windows 8 means that users no longer need to manage which apps are running. It also makes it easy for developers to craft a great user experience
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Greg Shultz from TechRepublic has combined altogether a great list of 100 keyboard shortcuts for Windows 8 users. Below are pdf and picture version. Click to Download pdf version
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In Windows 8, there is a secret menu which allows user quickly access system features such as Device Manager, Search, Event Viewer, Computer Management etc. To access the secret menu, you can
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As mentioned on our previous post, both Mozilla and Google have a development plan for their well-known web browsers. Today, few people have posted their screenshots of Mozilla Firefox Metro App. See below:
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This blog often focuses on the bits and features and less on the “philosophy” or “context” of the product. Given the level of brand new innovations in Windows 8, however, we think it is worth putting Windows 8 in the context in which we approached the ...
Hi, I’m John Sheehan, Partner Architect on the Windows Development team. We really appreciate you building apps for the preview releases. Your feedback helps us make Windows 8 great. Of course, building on a preview means that you need to make updates to your apps for each preview release ...
Posted on Everything Microsoft - Latest Microsoft News, Guides, Reviews & ThemesNot everyone knows, but all of our brilliant Windows 7 Themes here at Everything-Microsoft also work perfectly fine on Windows 8. So if you’re looking to give your Windows 8 Desktop a bit of a refresh, be sure to ...
Thanks to the cloud, Windows 8 customers can work and play seamlessly across devices. By signing in to your PC or device with a Microsoft account and taking advantage of free personal storage in SkyDrive (see Connecting your apps, files, PCs and devices to the cloud with SkyDrive and Windows ...
Posted on Everything Microsoft - Latest Microsoft News, Guides, Reviews & ThemesWe are expecting to see the Release Preview of Windows 8 sometime around the beginning of next month and with it we can expect to see plenty of new updates to the built in Metro Apps.
According to the Verge, Microsoft ...
In the Managing app lifecycle post, Adam Barrus described the new app lifecycle introduced in Windows 8. The most common question we hear is “what if my app has to do something important when it is not on screen, for example, download a file or email or play music”? In ...
One of the intrinsic capabilities of Windows 8 is the ability to use multiple accounts on any PC. This makes it much easier for parents to use tools that can help protect their children from content on the Internet as they see fit. It is also a ...
Since early on in the development of Windows 8, we’ve been thinking about ways to combine UI, such as the rich set of controls and interactivity provided by XAML, and graphics, like the low-level, high-performance rendering of DirectX. The feedback you gave for the Developer Preview through the Dev ...
Posted on Everything Microsoft - Latest Microsoft News, Guides, Reviews & ThemesIf a business wishes to purse the Microsoft Azure Cloud technology, what features will the get for the service? Here is a summary of those accounts. Licensing of the Microsoft private cloud solutions occur on a per processor basis ...
Human beings are asynchronous by nature, which directly affects how we expect apps to respond to us. The Windows Runtime (WinRT) has embraced this asynchrony as a first-class citizen in the building of fast and fluid Metro style apps. If you are building a Metro style app, you will need ...
