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Blogging from the iPhone

Stu — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:44:00 +0000

This is not easy if you have thumbs as big as mine! But the phone looks cool!

Michael Wallent: Advent and Evolution of WPF

Stu — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:16:12 +0000

Okay, I don’t like writing posts that just point elsewhere but this is a “super-interesting” interview with Michael Wallent, General Manager of the WinFX team and one of the people who helped create DHTML.Â If you’re interested in the evolutionÂ of WPF/Avalon from its roots in DHTML, this is 49 minutes well-spent.

http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=185468

New UI for Microsoft Office 12

Stu — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:29:52 +0000

Microsoft have unveiled a new user interface for their Office suite of products.

There is a new look and feel, which is quite pleasing to the eye. But more importantly, a lot of time an effort has been spent to improve the usability of these â€œpowerful authoring applicationsâ€.

Iâ€™m very positive about it. And interestingly, Microsoft are not prescribing that developers use the same user interface for their applications - they say there is nothing wrong with menus and tool bars for most apps. The reason they have gone further than menus and tool bars is because of the complexity of the applications. No doubt that wonâ€™t stop everyone from imitating it even for simple applications. And Iâ€™m sure there is probably a windows skin being made right now.