Infographic: Positive Windows 8 Reaction Visualized
Microsoft unveiled Windows 8 to the world earlier this month and one company was waiting in the wings to measure people’s reactions.
Social media firm MashWork created an infographic based on what people were saying about Windows 8 after it was revealed earlier this year. Half of all tweets favored Windows 8′s Metro style design compared to Apple’s iOS software and Google’s Android operating system. MashWork collated 65,968 messages shared on Twitter between June 15 and September 22. Around 42% of the messages were collected during Microsoft’s BUILD developers conference earlier this month. MashWork analyzed all the tweets and figured out that Xbox LIVE integration on Windows 8, a Windows App Store and fast boot times in Windows 8 were amongst the most talked about features.
“The most interesting thing I found was that people were so receptive to Windows 8 on a tablet,” said MashWork founder Jared Feldman, in an interview with VentureBeat this week. “A lot of times when you get very well-educated people, who know all the products on the market, they evaluate new things and immediately start hating and ripping it apart.” MashWork found that Windows 8 seems to have appealed to most Twitter fans. “What we found for the most part was that people are genuinely excited about Windows on a tablet — so much so that we actually have developer clients who are using this infographic to drum up excitement for Windows 8 before getting their hands on a developer kit to create apps (for the new platform),” Feldman added.
The visualized excitement over Windows 8 builds on the impressive unveiling of Windows 8. Microsoft managed to keep the majority of Windows 8 features relatively secret. Windows 8 offers a reimagined Windows experience with Microsoft’s Metro style user interface. Microsoft is expected to deliver a beta copy of the operating system at CES 2012.
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| Windows 8 Infographic |
- Windows 8 Infographic | Via Mashwork
Dissecting the new Windows 8 Start UI: Layers, Images and Colors oh my!
At BUILD, we were given loaner Windows 8 Developer Preview (WDP) PCs to tinker with. Shortly after, I was approached and asked: Can you figure out how to change the green background color present on the new Start UI? “That shouldn’t be hard”, I replied. Days later, it became obvious it was a little more complicated than that…
I won’t go through and map all 475 Colors here, but lets take a look at the Start UI again. The background color is driven by the Color named “ImmersiveStartBackground”. Tiles created from applications on the Classic Desktop (e.g. Visual Studio 11 Express) get their background appearance from the “ImmersiveStartDesktopTilesBackground” Color. Those same tiles also look to the “ImmersiveStartDesktopTilesText” Color for its text color.
So, back to the question from BUILD – how do you change the green background color?
If you’re not prepared to spend a lot of time on this, wait for updated Windows 8 bits featuring new Control Panel UI. No, really. I mean it. If you must, you can find the normal Color Set (g_ImmersiveColors) baked into Uxtheme.dll at file offset 0x96F30 (or 0x32E68 for x86) and the high-contrast Color Set (g_ImmersiveHighContrastMappings) at 0xA6BF0 (or 0×49058 for x86). (You can use my code above to map Color names to index positions.)
The Start UI makes use of at least three layers – a foreground (tile) layer, a background image layer, and a background color layer. Farthest from the eye is the background color layer, which is set to a single RGBA color (#0e6e39ff in this case) and fits to the dimensions of the screen. The optional middle layer contains an image used in conjunction with clever parallax scrolling to subtly hint visual depth. Floating on top are your tiles.
The Control Panel UI used to customize color throughout Windows 8 isn’t present in the WDP build, but you can gauge how customizable future builds of Windows 8 will be by inspecting its internal “Color Sets”. A Color Set is simply a collection (or set) of RGBA Color name and value pairs. Baked into the WDP are currently two Color Sets – one for normal use and one for high contrast use, identified internally as 0 and 1 respectively.
You can dig into these Color Sets using new APIs added to the Uxtheme library, e.g. GetImmersiveColorNamedTypeByIndex and GetImmersiveColorFromColorSetEx. I wrote a quick and dirty C# + Win32 application that iterated through the 475 defined Colors and printed out their names, values, and index positions.
[DllImport("uxtheme.dll", EntryPoint = "#100")]
static extern IntPtr GetImmersiveColorNamedTypeByIndex(uint dwIdx);
[DllImport("uxtheme.dll", EntryPoint = "#95")]
static extern uint GetImmersiveColorFromColorSetEx(uint dwColorSet, uint dwItemIdx, bool bIgnoreHighContrast);
static void Main(string[] args)
{
for (uint i = 0; i < 475; i++)
{
var ppsz = GetImmersiveColorNamedTypeByIndex(i);
Console.WriteLine("idx: {0}, name: {1}", i,
Marshal.PtrToStringUni(Marshal.ReadIntPtr(ppsz)));
//
// We're only interested in the standard color set, hence the 0.
//
var rgba = GetImmersiveColorFromColorSetEx(0, i, true);
Console.WriteLine("color: {0:X}", rgba);
Console.WriteLine();
}
return;
}
I won’t go through and map all 475 Colors here, but lets take a look at the Start UI again. The background color is driven by the Color named “ImmersiveStartBackground”. Tiles created from applications on the Classic Desktop (e.g. Visual Studio 11 Express) get their background appearance from the “ImmersiveStartDesktopTilesBackground” Color. Those same tiles also look to the “ImmersiveStartDesktopTilesText” Color for its text color.
So, back to the question from BUILD – how do you change the green background color?
If you’re not prepared to spend a lot of time on this, wait for updated Windows 8 bits featuring new Control Panel UI. No, really. I mean it. If you must, you can find the normal Color Set (g_ImmersiveColors) baked into Uxtheme.dll at file offset 0x96F30 (or 0x32E68 for x86) and the high-contrast Color Set (g_ImmersiveHighContrastMappings) at 0xA6BF0 (or 0×49058 for x86). (You can use my code above to map Color names to index positions.)
One quirk you’ll quickly discover is that changing the “ImmersiveStartBackground” color isn’t enough. Unfortunately, whomever designed the placeholder parallax image opted out of the use of alpha-transparency and simply used an opaque green color. If you must change these images, you can find the PNGs in shsxs.dll – resource items 5231 and 5232.
Google+ Now Open For All
Google has plastered a whopping great arrow across its homepage today, in an effort to convince visitors to give its Google Plus social network a try.
The blazing blue arrow points to the new '+You' tab on the Google toolbar, which is where you access Google Plus once you've signed in with your Google account.
Google Plus is the Big G's answer to Facebook, and it opened to all and sundry yesterday after two and a half months of closed testing, adding new features such as video chat for Android phones.
It seems that despite attracting a massive 10 million users while in its invite-only stage, enthusiasm for Google Plus has faltered, with reports that public posts are on the wane. The big blue arrow could be Google's saving grace however -- if it can channel just a small chunk of homepage traffic to the new service, we could see Google Plus' popularity explode.
We'll be watching with a keen eye over the next few days to see how the general public takes to the new social network. A huge influx of new users trying out features and posting fun stuff could be the tipping point that makes everyone switch to it. It has a mountain to climb though -- Facebook has 750 million active users.
Google Plus isn't a carbon copy of Facebook, with plenty of ideas of its own. It lets you sort your friends into circles, for example, so you can decide who sees what. We recommend pointing your peepers at our jaunty video explanation.
Will you be signing up to Google Plus now it's open to the public? If you're already on it, what do you like about it? Let us know in the comments section below, or on our, er, Facebook wall
Windows 8: Going In-Depth With Microsoft's Massive Update to Windows
Microsoft makes big changes with Windows 8, revamping the look and function, and adding support for the next generation of mobile devices.
The buzzword is "reimagine" here at Microsoft's BUILD conference in Anaheim, California, where Windows 8 is being shown for the first time in detail to developers and the media. The term refers to the operating system's radical new look, new support for tablets, revamped Start Screen, and integration of a new class of “metro-style” applications.
It may sound like hyperbole, but after a full day of demoing the new operating system, we can say that "reimagine" is the most apt descriptor. The latest OS from Microsoft presents a fundamental change in the way Windows users will interact with a PC--be it a tablet, laptop, desktop, or all-in-one. Windows 8 supports new hardware, provides a new interface, enables new features for home users and businesses, and offers a new platform for developers to build upon. All this, and Microsoft promises that it will still run every application that runs on Windows 7.
Still unknown is Windows 8's release date, and how many versions of the operating system will exist. What we can say is that it's the biggest change in how people will use PCs since Windows 95--and it’s risky. This is not the safe, same-but-better experience we have come to expect for more than a decade from Microsoft.
Big Changes Start at the Start Screen.
The Start Screen is at the core of Windows 8. Microsoft previously teased this new interface, which is steeped in the “Metro” design used on the Zune and Windows Phone 7. The thing is, this interface is not simply a secondary, alternate interface made for tablets and other touch-only devices. The new Windows 8 Start Screen--with its live tiles and touch gestures--is Windows.
When you boot any Windows 8 laptop, desktop, or tablet, you get a nice big lock screen with the time, date, and a few notification icons. Log in, and you’re at the Metro-themed Start Screen. Swipe from the right edge of the screen, and five navigation icons that Microsoft calls “Charms” appear from the right side: Search, Share, Start, Devices, and Settings. Swipe from the left edge, and you flip back through your running applications, as though paging back through photos on a smartphone.
If you don’t have a touch-enabled device, you still get the new Start Screen, and are still expected to use it. The mouse works fine, with the Charms moved to the lower-left corner, where the Start menu resides now. The mouse wheel scrolls through your pages of tiles, and right-clicking brings up the same application menu you would access with a swipe from the bottom of the screen on a touch device. Microsoft envisions a future where even devices with keyboards and mice will have touchscreens--we’ll touch where it’s more convenient, and type or point when the speed and precision of input devices makes sense.
Windows 8 Runs Tablet-Style Apps and Windows 7 Apps.
The Start Screen is home to a new class of programs that Microsoft calls “Metro-style” apps. They are very similar to the types of tablet apps you are familiar with. Metro-style apps are made to be immersive, removing window panes and close buttons, scrollbars and menu bars. Metro apps run full-screen, though you can multitask in two at a time by having one occupy the left or right third of your display.
So, what happens when you run a legacy Windows application on an x86 device? Simply put, it runs on a normal desktop, complete with a taskbar that is, at this stage of development, very similar to Windows 7’s. All of the bars and menus are there, the system tray is present--the only obvious difference is that the Start menu is replaced by the five Charms of Windows 8. Here’s the rub: This isn’t some odd mode distinct from the Start Screen. It operates as though it were just another Metro app. Pull up a list of your running apps on the Start Screen, and the Desktop (containing all of your current-style Windows applications) sits among them. It’s there when you swipe back through your running applications. The experience is hard to describe in words, but it is natural and obvious in practice.
Metro-style applications are meant to work together through Windows 8 services called “contracts.” If a developer enables the share contract with its photo application, for instance, it means that the data from that app (the photos) can be shared with other applications that implement the share contract. A search contract allows an application to say to the operating system, “Hey, my data can be searched.” The idea is to permit applications to work together without their having to even know about each other, all while running inside a nice, secure sandbox.
You’ll download Metro-style apps from a new Windows Store, built into the OS. Applications have to go through a submission process similar to that for Windows Phone 7 to be listed in the store. Developers control pricing, availability, and limits for trial versions. Applications are verified for stability and compatibility so that users can, as Microsoft puts it, "install applications with confidence." The store will feature a selection of standard desktop applications as well; of course, current install methods for desktop applications will continue to work, too.
New Hardware Support.
The Start Screen and Metro-style apps aren’t all that is new in Windows 8. Far from it. First, there’s support for new hardware, chiefly ARM-based system-on-chip processors. Obviously, tablets running ARM processors won’t run legacy applications compiled for x86 or x64 processors, but it seems most Metro-style applications will be built in either C#/XAML or HTML 5/JavaScript. These applications will run seamlessly across ARM, x86, or x64.
Speaking of devices, Windows 8 will bring with it new class drivers for printers, which currently in the pre-beta cover about 70 percent of the printers that support Windows 7. This means that when you plug a printer into your system, it just works--no need to install a driver as you do for Windows 7. You may never have to hunt for printer drivers again. The same goes for USB 3.0 and mobile broadband radios, which get class drivers as well.
Traditional desktop features have not been ignored, though Microsoft has spent most of its time focusing on the Start Screen and Metro-style apps. Windows 8 offers loads of new file-management features and more functionality in Explorer through a Ribbon-style interface. A new Task Manager delivers more information, more clearly, about what is going on with your PC. More options are available for multiple-monitor users, including better handling of the taskbar and the ability to show the Start Screen on one monitor and the desktop on another. A new Reset feature restores your computer to factory-fresh condition. The Refresh feature is similar, but it sets aside all your user data, preferences, and Metro-style apps, wipes clean the underlying operating system, and then puts everything back.
Windows 8 Gets Down to Business.
For business and IT departments, features like Reset and Refresh may be enticing, but it’s not all they’ll get. New security features include a secure boot function that will allow the operating system to boot only from approved and secure hardware devices. Windows Defender has been beefed up to include complete antivirus protection, and it loads far earlier in the boot process to protect the computer through most of the boot-up sequence. Client Hyper-V provides full operating system virtualization services for developers that need to test on various installations. A new Windows To Go feature allows IT managers to run Windows 8, along with their own applications, data, and settings, directly from a USB stick.
All of this merely scratches the surface of the massive upgrade that is Windows 8. In fact, even with all the information pouring out of the BUILD conference, Microsoft assures us that hundreds of features are yet to be revealed. What Microsoft says it's doing with Windows 8 is reimagining the OS. In a word, it's audacious.
We’ll have a lot more to say about the changes in Windows 8, large and small, over the course of the week.
The buzzword is "reimagine" here at Microsoft's BUILD conference in Anaheim, California, where Windows 8 is being shown for the first time in detail to developers and the media. The term refers to the operating system's radical new look, new support for tablets, revamped Start Screen, and integration of a new class of “metro-style” applications.It may sound like hyperbole, but after a full day of demoing the new operating system, we can say that "reimagine" is the most apt descriptor. The latest OS from Microsoft presents a fundamental change in the way Windows users will interact with a PC--be it a tablet, laptop, desktop, or all-in-one. Windows 8 supports new hardware, provides a new interface, enables new features for home users and businesses, and offers a new platform for developers to build upon. All this, and Microsoft promises that it will still run every application that runs on Windows 7.
Still unknown is Windows 8's release date, and how many versions of the operating system will exist. What we can say is that it's the biggest change in how people will use PCs since Windows 95--and it’s risky. This is not the safe, same-but-better experience we have come to expect for more than a decade from Microsoft.
Big Changes Start at the Start Screen.
The Start Screen is at the core of Windows 8. Microsoft previously teased this new interface, which is steeped in the “Metro” design used on the Zune and Windows Phone 7. The thing is, this interface is not simply a secondary, alternate interface made for tablets and other touch-only devices. The new Windows 8 Start Screen--with its live tiles and touch gestures--is Windows.
When you boot any Windows 8 laptop, desktop, or tablet, you get a nice big lock screen with the time, date, and a few notification icons. Log in, and you’re at the Metro-themed Start Screen. Swipe from the right edge of the screen, and five navigation icons that Microsoft calls “Charms” appear from the right side: Search, Share, Start, Devices, and Settings. Swipe from the left edge, and you flip back through your running applications, as though paging back through photos on a smartphone.
Windows 8 Runs Tablet-Style Apps and Windows 7 Apps.
The Start Screen is home to a new class of programs that Microsoft calls “Metro-style” apps. They are very similar to the types of tablet apps you are familiar with. Metro-style apps are made to be immersive, removing window panes and close buttons, scrollbars and menu bars. Metro apps run full-screen, though you can multitask in two at a time by having one occupy the left or right third of your display.
So, what happens when you run a legacy Windows application on an x86 device? Simply put, it runs on a normal desktop, complete with a taskbar that is, at this stage of development, very similar to Windows 7’s. All of the bars and menus are there, the system tray is present--the only obvious difference is that the Start menu is replaced by the five Charms of Windows 8. Here’s the rub: This isn’t some odd mode distinct from the Start Screen. It operates as though it were just another Metro app. Pull up a list of your running apps on the Start Screen, and the Desktop (containing all of your current-style Windows applications) sits among them. It’s there when you swipe back through your running applications. The experience is hard to describe in words, but it is natural and obvious in practice.
Metro-style applications are meant to work together through Windows 8 services called “contracts.” If a developer enables the share contract with its photo application, for instance, it means that the data from that app (the photos) can be shared with other applications that implement the share contract. A search contract allows an application to say to the operating system, “Hey, my data can be searched.” The idea is to permit applications to work together without their having to even know about each other, all while running inside a nice, secure sandbox.
You’ll download Metro-style apps from a new Windows Store, built into the OS. Applications have to go through a submission process similar to that for Windows Phone 7 to be listed in the store. Developers control pricing, availability, and limits for trial versions. Applications are verified for stability and compatibility so that users can, as Microsoft puts it, "install applications with confidence." The store will feature a selection of standard desktop applications as well; of course, current install methods for desktop applications will continue to work, too.
New Hardware Support.
The Start Screen and Metro-style apps aren’t all that is new in Windows 8. Far from it. First, there’s support for new hardware, chiefly ARM-based system-on-chip processors. Obviously, tablets running ARM processors won’t run legacy applications compiled for x86 or x64 processors, but it seems most Metro-style applications will be built in either C#/XAML or HTML 5/JavaScript. These applications will run seamlessly across ARM, x86, or x64.
Speaking of devices, Windows 8 will bring with it new class drivers for printers, which currently in the pre-beta cover about 70 percent of the printers that support Windows 7. This means that when you plug a printer into your system, it just works--no need to install a driver as you do for Windows 7. You may never have to hunt for printer drivers again. The same goes for USB 3.0 and mobile broadband radios, which get class drivers as well.
Traditional desktop features have not been ignored, though Microsoft has spent most of its time focusing on the Start Screen and Metro-style apps. Windows 8 offers loads of new file-management features and more functionality in Explorer through a Ribbon-style interface. A new Task Manager delivers more information, more clearly, about what is going on with your PC. More options are available for multiple-monitor users, including better handling of the taskbar and the ability to show the Start Screen on one monitor and the desktop on another. A new Reset feature restores your computer to factory-fresh condition. The Refresh feature is similar, but it sets aside all your user data, preferences, and Metro-style apps, wipes clean the underlying operating system, and then puts everything back.Windows 8 Gets Down to Business.
For business and IT departments, features like Reset and Refresh may be enticing, but it’s not all they’ll get. New security features include a secure boot function that will allow the operating system to boot only from approved and secure hardware devices. Windows Defender has been beefed up to include complete antivirus protection, and it loads far earlier in the boot process to protect the computer through most of the boot-up sequence. Client Hyper-V provides full operating system virtualization services for developers that need to test on various installations. A new Windows To Go feature allows IT managers to run Windows 8, along with their own applications, data, and settings, directly from a USB stick.
All of this merely scratches the surface of the massive upgrade that is Windows 8. In fact, even with all the information pouring out of the BUILD conference, Microsoft assures us that hundreds of features are yet to be revealed. What Microsoft says it's doing with Windows 8 is reimagining the OS. In a word, it's audacious.
We’ll have a lot more to say about the changes in Windows 8, large and small, over the course of the week.
Windows 8 Preview Release Downloadable Tonight
News Want to give Windows 8's new look a try? Starting tonight, you'll be able to download a Windows 8 developer preview release straight from Microsoft.
The Windows 8 preview code will be available as an ISO file at 8 p.m. Pacific time from Microsoft's developer website. You'll have a choice of 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) builds, with or without developer tools. Sample apps -- a Twitter client, a Facebook client, games and more -- are also included.
Because this is prerelease code, a clean install is required. "It is not a beta release," Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky wrote in a blog post. "We will be updating the release with various quality updates and drivers over the coming weeks/months just to exercise our overall update and telemetry mechanisms."
Windows 8 is a major overhaul to Microsoft's PC operating system. It's designed with touchscreens in mind, launching into a Metro-style user interface with touch-friendly apps, but it also accommodates standard input devices. The traditional Windows desktop is represented as an app within the broader Windows 8 interface, and the preview build already supports Windows 7 applications.
G+7 Adds Google+ To Your Windows Desktop
Windows 7: If you love Google+ but wish you could access your stream on the desktop, G+7is a
Windows 7 gadget that sits on your desktop and gives you access to your stream, complete with links, images, and the ability to open them quickly if you see something interesting.
Similar to previously mentioned Tab for Google+, once you're logged in, the app will keep your stream up to date at all times. Since the utility is a gadget, you can move it around the desktop so it lives anywhere you want. If you see a post or item in your stream that you'd like to read, you can click it to open it in a mini-browser off to the side, and then click again to bring it up in your default browser.
G+7 is just one of many utilities meant to make Google+ more accessible and easier to stay connected with. It's free, and supports Windows 7 only.
- G+7 | Kalamon Software
Windows Live SkyDrive To Get Unlimited Storage
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| Windows Live SkyDrive |
Before we all lose our minds with the whole "OMGWTFBBQ?!" emotion, let's take a quick gander at the proposed storage features:
- Unlimited storage space for all Office documents
- Unlimited storage space for all photos
- 25 GB of free storage for everything else
What's good? Unlimited storage for Office documentation and photos taken on our Windows Phone handsets, but unfortunately we'll have capped space for music and all other files. Still, 25GB worth of storage is more than what the average user requires. With apps for OS X, iOS and Android as well as native integration with Windows and WP I can see myself converting along with many more.
This may also confirm the integration of the 5GB "SkyDrive synced storage" for Windows Live Mesh with SkyDrive for devices added to accounts. We'll have to see when the roll out happens.
Windows Phone AVG Antivirus App May Be More Dangerous Than We Thought
We broke the news the other night about AVG releasing an antivirus suite for Windows Phone. The app seemed harmless enough (and borderline useless to boot), only being able to manually scan photos and music files, while also offering "safe URL" web surfing.
Having a useless app is one thing, having an app that can potentially do some mischievous shenanigans is another. Its the latter that AVG is being accused of. Yes folks, AVG's app for Windows Phone may be spyware--that's irony.
Justin Angel broke down the app, did some analysis on it and found it is improperly using the Geo Location (GeoCoordinateWatcher) to track the phone and send all possible identifying information (phone make, model, your email address, location) onto AVG. For what purpose? Over at Centurion's Blog, he breaks it down to four possible uses:
- Quality assurance
- Info is sent to their Android app
- Geo info is used for location based search
- Collected data is used for marketing purposes
Whichever the reason, nonee of them benefit you, meaning that this app has gone from questionable value to not-recommended at all. Furthermore, Microsoft's Brandon Watson is taking a look at the app too to see if it violates any of the Marketplace guidelines. Stay tuned...
Source: Justin Angel; via Mobility Digest, Centurion's Blog; image credit @ailon
AVG Releases First Antivirus Scanner For Windows Phone 7
"Free Security Suite from AVG Mobilation – security software for Windows Phone™. Keep your device safe with just one click"In addition, the virus scanner portion will scan over your music and images. Surprisingly, the scan is pretty fast though we do have to wonder about other vulnerabilities such as PDFs, docx and of course programs. We imagine though when it comes to the latter, AVG can only do so much within the siloed limitations of the Windows Phone OS. So how much of a threat could there be from music or images? We're not too really to sure but we're more concerned about side-loading XAP files from untrusted sources--something which this app doesn't cover.
- Safe Web Surfing - Stay safe from phishing and malware while surfing the web
- Safe Search - Allowing you search the web avoiding malicious web sites
Still, for being free, it's not bad. It can update/download new AV definitions and the Safe Search/Web Surfing is not bad if you're worried about going to a malicious site. Worth the download? Perhaps--at 5MB, it sure won't kill your device and giving it once-over (under 30 secs for most of you) may not be a bad idea. Read more at http://www.avgmobilation.com/ and pick the app up here in the Marketplace.
Facebook for iPhone Updates, Improves Group Sharing and Tagging
iOS: Yesterday Facebook updated its iPhone app, and completely overhauled the design for user profiles and group walls, made it easier to share status updates and photos from your iOS device with select groups, and made it easier to tag friends and locations right from the mobile app.
Additionally, Facebook updated the iOS app so your privacy settings (you know, the ones they added last month) on the web carry over to your phone. This means that if you have Facebook set to only share with a certain group by default on the web, the same will be true on your iPhone. The update also makes it easier to select filters in your news feed and share external links.
Unfortunately, there's still no iPad version of the app, and while we all know they have one, Facebook has removed it from the update, and even if you had it enabled you can't log in with it.
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