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There's no doubt that the backgrounds in Windows 7 are the most unique in Microsoft's history. What was the thinking behind them? Who comes up with the backgrounds? How do you determine what art hundreds of millions of people would like to see every day? Senior UX Lead Denise Trabona joined me…

There's no doubt that the backgrounds in Windows 7 are the most unique in Microsoft's history. What was the thinking behind them? Who comes up with the backgrounds? How do you determine what art hundreds of millions of people would like to see every day? Senior UX Lead Denise Trabona joined…

What do you get when you invite 17 companies together and throw a bunch of new stuff in their face and ask them to use it? Well, in Wellington, it was called Expression for Art’s Sake. This was a bit of an ‘artist in residency’ program where Microsoft invited some companies to bring their…

What do you get when you invite 17 companies together and throw a bunch of new stuff in their face and ask them to use it? Well, in Wellington, it was called Expression for Art’s Sake. This was a bit of an ‘artist in residency’ program where Microsoft invited some companies to bring their…

Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President, leads the teams that create the .NET developer and designer technologies and tools. Silverlight 3 has arrived in beta form. Expression 3 also ships today in Preview form. Grab the bits and play. Provide feedback. OK. That's the housekeeping stuff. Now,…

Mike Swanson sits down with User Experience Design legend Bill Buxton to talk about, well, user experience design... You can see more of Bill (and for much longer than 10 minutes) at MIX09.Bill Buxton is the author of Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right…

It's always fun to talk to Scott Guthrie, VP of all things .NET and one of Microsoft's most prolific technical bloggers (he actually writes all of the entries on his blog which is quite a feat given his schedule and time constraints as a corporate Vice President). Many of you have seen his…

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 Launch,…

If you love Deepzoomable stuff as much as I do, you'll love this. The latest example of Silverlight’s cool DeepZoom technology can be found in action here on a poster created to “capture the organized chaos that is website design and development.” (Well, at least that’s what it does according to…

Der Herr der Konsole und der performanten WPF-UI spricht hier über seine Sessions auf der Xtopia und dem Technical Summit in Berlin. Mehr Infos gibt es unter www.technical-summit.de und www.xtopia.de.