Ampèreheure, enquêtes de rétroaction de produit, que ferons-nous jamais sans toi ? Vous partagez vos secrets plus intimes et futures idées avec les étrangers complets tous de produit au nom de l'étude de marché. Avec reconnaissance les enquêtes de Microsoft ne sont aucune exception.

Un tipster anonyme a précisé à moi dans une enquête (privée) récente de rétroaction de Windows envoyée par Microsoft, a demandé combien de fois à des utilisateurs l'utilisation la fonctionnalité de recherche de menu de début, était un screenshot accentuant le dispositif mentionné ci-dessus mais pas de Windows Vista et certainement pas quelque chose nous avons jamais vu avant.

L'explication la plus logique serait naturellement, ceci est une maquette de Windows 7.

Si c'est en effet le cas, qui est impossible à s'avérer que je pourrais ajouter, alors nous sommes témoin d'un certain nombre de menu de changements dès le début dans Vista aujourd'hui et même le menu de début de la construction fuie de Étape importante 1 de Windows 7.

Notamment la perle/bouton/corps rond de début se repose dans un coin incurvé qui est plus foncé au reste du taskbar qui est maintenant considérablement plus transparent et blanc. Et très probablement le taskbar est « double taille » par défaut. Quelques applications dans le menu de début ont également un bouton de cascade sur son droit, me menant à croire

Ce n'est pas très souvent toi trouvaille une publicité du travail qui ne tente pas votre curiosité, ainsi elle est seulement à la foire pour prendre le suivant avec un grain de sel. Ce travail de Microsoft signalant pour « un concepteur d'expérience d'utilisateur » a été édité sur le 23ème du février 2008.

Le centre de la description des fonctions se rapporte à un projet de démarrage à l'intérieur de Microsoft appelé Tangram. Ce qu'elles visent à réaliser avec la technologie est intrigant aux mineurs.

L'équipe de Tangram fournit une occasion de travailler aux défis de technologie de une balance d'Internet entretient la technologie couplée avec les expériences 3D interactives cela ont en raison possible finalement devenu des écrans ultra-hauts de résolution et des processeurs de rendement élevé. Nous sommes changing what people expect from the Internet by delivering entirely new ways to see, interact with and use data of deep interest to consumers and business people. This is a project with high visibility in Microsoft. We are assembling a team of world class engineers with very strong analytical and technical skills. We are looking for people who can define the problem, come up with a solution, and implement it. End to end. Ship it in 6 months.

Tangram is a startup product team with the highest levels

One of the two big Microsoft news out of the Game Developers Conference today of course is the extension of XNA Game Studio to the Zune. It means now with one development framework and toolset, game developers can make the relatively simple transition between three platforms to publish their games on - the PC, XBOX 360 and the Zune.

You might have seen pictures on Engadget and Joystiq, but nothing beats full-motion video. Dan Fernandez has uploaded a short snippet of the Microsoft keynote with Chris Satchell showing off a game demo on the Zune. Debunking some of the fears it wouldn’t play well, the controls looks pretty intuitive and the graphic are smooth as well.

In the small spectrum of software developers who writes compatible software with 64-bit versions of Windows, you’d expect Microsoft to be the last to drop the ball. Today, Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger team did exactly just that and dropped compatibility for 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

A reasonable person might be led to believe Windows Live Messenger 8.5 is somehow incompatible with those versions of Windows. Unfortunately, reason seems to be out of the equation.

As part of the automatic rollout of the final version of Messenger 8.5, Jura of the Windows Live Messenger team announced on the blog today,

A special note for those of you running Messenger 8.5 Beta on Windows XP 64-bit or Windows 2003 Server: the final version of Messenger 8.5 will not install or run on your OS. We don’t want you to get stuck out in the cold so you will not receive the mandatory upgrade to the final version. However, these operating systems won’t be supported by future Messenger versions.

It’s almost as if someone held a gun to their head to announce this because as a matter of fact, the final version of Messenger 8.5

For a design-orientated conference, Microsoft’s MIX08 event has one of the worst-designed session timetables/planners I’ve ever come across. The sessions are listed in no apparent order and doesn’t actually provide any methods to sort the list by title, time, place or focus just in case you have any sense of control.

If you wanted to see what’s on during a particular time-slot, nope, can’t do that. If you wanted to see what’s on in a particular room on a day, nope, can’t do that. If you wanted to plan a list of sessions you’re interested in to find any conflicts, nope, can’t do that.

Because my time is so much less valuable than whomever designed this, I’ve taken the liberty to recompose the entire schedule in an Excel workbook to give some sense of time and place with what’s going on during the 3-day event with over 76 sessions in total.

First, I have an overview schedule of all the events and functions at MIX.

Then for each day, I have a detailed schedule of all the sessions that are happening that day columnized by which room it’s happening in.

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One of the lesser known facts about wireless products is that they all have to tested by this little organization called the FCC, who for less obvious reason takes many photos of upcoming and sometimes unannounced products and puts them up on their (very hard to use) website.

What we have today is a (poorly lit) photo of Microsoft’s yet-to-be-announced Wireless Laser Keyboard 7000, the keyboard compliment to the recently announced Wireless Laser Mouse 7000. Ironically that too was uncovered early via FCC documentations.

This particular photo along with a batch of other external photos were only released recently due to a 45-days short-term confidentially agreement between Microsoft and the FCC in order to “ensure sensitive business information remains confidential until the actual marketing of the device”. Guess Microsoft’s falling a little behind on their marketing schedules.

What’s unique about this keyboard is the transparent glass frame surrounding the entire keyboard - an obvious harmony with the Windows Vista user interface, Aero Glass. Perhaps slightly inspired by Carbon Design’s Longhorn PC concepts featuring the same glass frame around the keyboard. In addition, it appears to be also the first keyboard on the