Touch

WinPong is a revival of the classic Pong game from the seventies redesigned for the world largest tablet running on Windows 8. Swiss Evangelist Ronnie Saurenmann developed WinPong to demonstrate nicely how Windows 8 can be used by keyboard/mouse and by touch at the same time. The game was show cased…

For Windows 8, we built Internet Explorer 10 to be a first-in-class browser for touch. Not only did we want it to be fast and fluid with panning and zooming of the web you use today, but we also wanted to enable web developers to build exciting new experiences that take advantage of multi-touch…

For Windows 8, we built Internet Explorer 10 to be a first-in-class browser for touch. Not only did we want it to be fast and fluid with panning and zooming of the web you use today, but we also wanted to enable web developers to build exciting new experiences that take advantage of multi-touch…

Semantic zoom is a control used by apps in Windows 8 for displaying large sets of content in a truly user friendly format. Semantic Zoom is unique in that it provides an easy to navigate, touch optimized view of the data you present to users. In designing Windows 8 we wanted to ensure users…

Learn about the great new HTML5 features available in Internet Explorer 10. This video focuses on how you can use HTML5 to enhance your client-server communications. For more information please see the topics at: Update your site to Web Standards See also related videos here: Touch-First Experiences…

In Windows 8, people who are blind can use Narrator to access their machines. This video discusses some additional design aspects on how you as an app developer can design your app to work well with Narrator.  These considerations will help to ensure that people with vision…

When you are designing an app, it's important to think about all of the people who will use it, including those with disabilities such as visual, mobility, hearing, and cognitive impairments. In the United States alone, 36 million people have a disability and worldwide that figure is estimated…

This video discuss how Internet Explorer 10 is designed to make website interaction fast and fluid for touch as well as for heavy mouse and keyboard use. With IE10, websites participate in the Metro style experience in Windows 8, including the Start screen, charms, snap, and more. IE10 also provides…

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

Internet Explorer and touch first browsing uses the same powerful engine as IE on the desktop. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/14/metro-style-web-browsing-one-engine-two-experiences-no-compromises.aspx