Microsoft Wins The Windows 8 Live Tiles Lawsuit

The design language is based on the design principles of classic Swiss graphic design. Early glimpses of this style could be seen in Windows Media Center for Windows XP Media Center Edition,[9] which favored text as the primary form of navigation, as well as early concepts of Neptune.[10] This interface carried over into later iterations of Media Center. In 2006, Zune refreshed its interface using these principles. Microsoft designers decided to redesign the interface and with more focus on clean typography and less on UI chrome.[11] These principles and the new Zune UI were carried over to Windows Phone first released in 2010 (from which much was drawn for Windows 8). The Zune Desktop Client was also redesigned with an emphasis on typography and clean design that was different from the Zune's previous Portable Media Center based UI. Flat colored "live tiles" were introduced into the design language during the early Windows Phones studies.

The Start menu gets a major overhaul in Windows 11. Pinned app buttons (they're larger than icons but smaller than Windows 10's tiles) are at the top of its panel. The Recommended section below them doesn't work well for me: I'd prefer simple Recently Added and Most Used sections like those in Windows 10. The Start menu\u2019s new mini-tiles are still good for touch input, but you lose info live tiles offer, annoying as those could sometimes be. Another quibble I have with the new Start menu is it's harder to get to the All Apps view than in Windows 10. With that version of Windows, you can see all installed apps as soon as you open the Start menu; they're in a list on the left while tiles for your pinned apps are on the right. The 22H2 version update adds the ability to group pinned app icons into folders and to change the portion of Pinned vs. Recommended icons that appear in the Start menu.

Microsoft Wins The Windows 8 Live Tiles Lawsuit

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Swiping past this screen brings you to the familiar password screen. Tap in your password and Start screen's Metro UI will fill up with tiles before your eyes. Watching the buttery smooth animation, you might forget for a moment that you're using Windows at all. These tiles are like a hybrid of icons and widgets. They vary in size and many of them are live, displaying information such as weather, stocks or whatever else you might need. Click one and you're taken to full screen, detailed and interactive apps that rival anything Apple puts out. 2ff7e9595c