In-depth understanding of Office 15 and Windows 8 touch design

touch technology began to spread in Microsoft's full line of products, from Office15 to Surface2.0 to Windows8, then what changes have these aspects?

relive the radial menu

TheVerge foreign media recently reported that in the future there may Office15 new radial menu function, radial menu concept as a touch-friendly style, Apple has also been valued, and Patented to apply for "radial menu" technology, according to this report Microsoft Watcher view through video and literature to plug in which functions these menus will be applied to. Some netizens broke the news that Microsoft Research's project called INKSeine contains both radial menus.

InkSeine completely reconstruct the digital brush strokes and ink user experience concepts to the user interface. According to the introduction of the official website of Microsoft Research, the radial menu allows the user to hover to preview the effect of the user command and select the command by sliding. Although this feature is designed for touch pens, it is also suitable for finger manipulation.

Also in BingVisual prototype ChevronWP7 members LongZheng has issued a blog post that Microsoft Surface also adopted the concept of the radial menu.

is currently no way to determine exactly Office15 is the final full sense of the Metro style (based on WinRT development), or merely follows the MetroUI design in the interface, but less likely the former case The reason is that if you want to release Office15 before 2012, then Microsoft will need to spend more time redesigning. Therefore, we can say that the radial menu is just a compromise for Microsoft to achieve Metroization, at least in terms of touch friendly.

Surface2.0SDK update

Microsoft recently opened Surface2.0 download the new SDK update contains content optimized for Windows Touch device, Microsoft seems to have realized that the old version of the SDK is not Good support for the new Surface device results in touch gestures that cannot be recognized by the digital converter in many modes. Also in the update summary also mentioned: the new version

"through serial and parallel digital converter greatly enhance the processing power input, the proposed developers, especially in the computer supports Windows7 touch application development developers to adopt a new version of SDK "

Samsung SUR-40 series Surface2.0 equipment originally promised on the market last year and then postponed to February of this year on the market, it is unclear digital converter existence of these problems eventually Will affect the time to market for this series of equipment.

Windows8 redeployment

version, also known as Windows8Beta Windows8ConsumerPrevIEw (Windows8 consumer preview) leaked, some of the user interface elements that exist in previous versions, such as "start button" has been removed At the same time, the new UI icon, as well as the new CharmsBar, although there is no specific release date, the user is getting closer to the Windows 8 Consumer Preview.

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