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Smooth animations are fundamental to many graphical UI applications. Windows 7 introduces a native animation framework for managing the scheduling and execution of animations. The animation framework supplies a library of useful mathematical functions for specifying behavior over time and lets...

In the Windows 7 Multi-Touch Overview video we talked about the basic multi-touch functionality in Windows 7 and a little bit about the “Good, Better, and Best” programming model. In this video, we focus on Windows 7 multi-touch programming model. Join Reed Townsend and Ian Mendiola...

In the Windows 7 Multi-Touch Overview video we talked about the basic multi-touch functionality in Windows 7 and a little bit about the “Good, Better, and Best” programming model. In this video, we focus on Windows 7 multi-touch programming model. Join Reed Townsend and Ian Mendiola...

We have added multi-touch capabilities to Windows 7 that provide support for both Windows 7 and applications--even those applications that were not developed specifically to support multi-touch. As developers, we have the opportunity to opt into multi-touch in Windows 7 and provide...

Windows 7 offers a new way of controlling your desktop, managing your windows, and launching applications. The Windows 7 Taskbar is a new application-launching and window-switching mechanism that consolidates the functionalities from previous Windows OS Desktop mechanisms such as Quick...

Windows 7 offers a new way of controlling your desktop, managing your windows, and launching applications. The Windows 7 Taskbar is a new application-launching and window-switching mechanism that consolidates the functionalities from previous Windows OS Desktop mechanisms such as Quick...

Windows 7 includes many new updates and improvements to the Graphics stack, including a new set of APIs for 2D graphics and writing text. Among the improvements are a major reduction in memory consumption by the DWM and new more efficient ways to combine the different available APIs. Join David...

Windows 7 includes many new updates and improvements to the Graphics stack, including a new set of APIs for 2D graphics and writing text. Among the improvements are a major reduction in memory consumption by the DWM and new more efficient ways to combine the different available APIs. Join David...

Windows 7 includes many new updates and improvements to the Graphics stack, including a new set of APIs for 2D graphics and writing text. Among the improvements are a major reduction in memory consumption by the DWM and new more efficient ways to combine the different available APIs. Join David...

Windows 7 adopts the successful Office 2007 Ribbon user interface concept. The Windows 7 Ribbon command infrastructure enables developers to quickly and easily create rich ribbon experiences in their applications.

Watch Yochay Kiriaty, Windows 7 Technical Evangelist, and Windows Ribbon product team...