Roxanne Beaver

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  Windows 95 Usability Testing - 1993

  4 days ago 1 Roxanne Beaver

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  Here is an historic video of a person in our usability labs trying an early build of Windows 95 which shows an example of the kind of problems many people had: This video is from 1993. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/18/creating-the-windows-8-user-experience.aspx

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  Windows 95 Start button

  4 days ago 2 Roxanne Beaver

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  This video teaches consumers how to use the Windows 95 Start button. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/18/creating-the-windows-8-user-experience.aspx

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  2 minutes, 44 seconds
  Keeping your family safer with Windows 8

  4 days ago 2 Roxanne Beaver

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  This blog post shows how to set family safety settings to keep your kids safe. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/14/keeping-your-family-safer-with-windows-8.aspx

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  7 minutes, 29 seconds
  Cloud services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone

  May 08, 2012 at 10:22 AM 0 Roxanne Beaver

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  Windows 8 is designed to be cloud-powered, so it comes with Metro style apps for communication, sharing, scheduling, photos, and videos. Preview versions of these apps come installed with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview and include Mail, Calendar, People, Photos, Messaging, and SkyDrive. http://blogs...

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  2 minutes, 30 seconds
  SkyDrive video

  Apr 27, 2012 at 4:32 PM 0 Roxanne Beaver

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  This video shows how easy it is to collaborate and share files, photos, and apps, in order to create a winning presentation using SkyDrive. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/04/23/the-next-chapter-for-skydrive-personal-cloud-storage-for-windows-available-anywhere.aspx

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  4 minutes, 38 seconds
  Reclaiming memory from Metro style apps

  Apr 20, 2012 at 4:21 PM 0 Roxanne Beaver

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  This video shows how Windows 8 can improve memory and Metro style app responsiveness. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/04/17/reclaiming-memory-from-metro-style-apps.aspx

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  Supporting sensors in Windows 8

  Apr 03, 2012 at 7:27 PM 0 Roxanne Beaver

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  Windows 8 can support sensors including; adaptive brightness and automatic screen rotation. Windows 8 is powerful and handling the accelerometer with a low-pass filter to prevent images from being jittery and to improve system response. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/01/24/support...

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  Touch hardware and Windows 8

  Apr 03, 2012 at 5:02 PM 0 Roxanne Beaver

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  This video shows some examples of how hardware can affect the Windows 8 touch language. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/03/28/touch-hardware-and-windows-8.aspx

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  3 minutes, 52 seconds
  Internet Explorer 10 Consumer Preview

  Mar 23, 2012 at 12:45 PM 3 Roxanne Beaver

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  To deliver the best browsing across all Windows 8 devices, we re-imagined the architecture and experience of the web browser with Internet Explorer 10. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/03/13/web-browsing-in-windows-8-consumer-preview-with-ie10.aspx

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  3 minutes, 52 seconds
  Internet Explorer 10 Consumer Preview

  Mar 15, 2012 at 3:45 AM 3 Roxanne Beaver

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  To deliver the best browsing across all Windows 8 devices, we re-imagined the architecture and experience of the web browser with Internet Explorer 10.  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/03/13/web-browsing-in-windows-8-consumer-preview-with-ie10.aspx

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