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- Microsoft: Kinect wasn't hacked, USB port left open 'by design' http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/11/microsoft-kinect-not-hacked-left.html 12 comments
- The designer of Microsoft's super-annoying 'Clippy' assistant says he was 'so embarrassed' by his creation https://businessinsider.com/creator-microsoft-clippy-assistant-was-so-embarrassed-annoying-2023-6 9 comments technology
- Microsoft Is Designing Its Own Chips for Servers, Surface PCs https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-18/microsoft-msft-is-designing-its-own-chips-in-move-away-from-intel-intc 3 comments technology
- Microsoft Fast Design https://www.fast.design/docs/introduction 7 comments programming
- Microsoft’s designers are now working together on the future of Windows, Office, and Surface https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/5/18125306/microsoft-fluent-design-windows-office-surface-future 27 comments microsoft
- Microsoft’s new Office icons are part of a bigger design overhaul https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/29/18117580/microsoft-office-new-icons-2018-design-features 80 comments microsoft
- Microsoft’s Windows 10 design refresh "Project Neon" revealed in leaked screenshots http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/5/14176806/microsoft-windows-10-project-neon-design 9 comments technology
- Microsoft to design app for government's open online courses http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/microsoft-to-design-app-for-governments-open-online-courses/articleshow/52789906.cms 4 comments india
- Stupid Patent of the Month: Microsoft’s Design Patent on a Slider https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/stupid-patent-month-microsofts-design-patent-slider 11 comments technology
- What's new in Microsoft Design Language 2 for Windows 10 http://www.windowscentral.com/whats-new-microsoft-design-language-2-windows10 16 comments windowsphone
- Microsoft is working on a new application designed to help users perform Office-related tasks on Windows Phone http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-internally-testing-new-work-assistant-app/ 4 comments windowsphone
- Microsoft removes your Facebook photo albums from Windows Phone “by design” | Pocketnow http://pocketnow.com/2014/12/04/microsoft-removes-your-facebook-photo-albums-from-windows-phone-by-design 20 comments windowsphone
- Microsoft trademarks ‘Mod’ to replace ‘Metro’ to refer Windows 8 design http://pureinfotech.com/2014/01/02/microsoft-trademarks-mod-to-replace-metro-windows-8-design/ 225 comments technology
- Looking at Modern Design at Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/stories/design/ 14 comments windowsphone
- Microsoft is being sued for its live tiles design. http://winsource.com/2012/10/31/microsoft-is-being-sued-for-its-live-tiles-design/ 9 comments windowsphone
- Why does UI of Microsoft's website(s) so unattractive? Do they lack designers? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3774922 3 comments technology
- Microsoft reveals new plans designed to speed up the web http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/03/microsoft-unveils-new-plan-to-speed-up-the-web/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28wired%3A+index+3+%28top+stories+2%29%29 5 comments technology
- Designed with Microsoft FrontPage 6.0 http://www.health.gov 17 comments web_design
- Malware can turn off UAC in Windows 7; Microsoft: “By design” http://www.withinwindows.com/2009/01/30/malware-can-turn-off-uac-in-windows-7-by-design-says-microsoft/ 19 comments software
- Design flaw could allow hackers to roll back Microsoft Windows updates https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/07/design-flaw-could-allow-hackers-roll-back-microsoft-windows-updates/ 3 comments windows
- "It’s amazing how you can see a Windows Phone in 2019 and the UI / software design still looks incredibly modern. Microsoft was really ahead of its time" https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1160175164543438849?s=20 108 comments windowsphone
- Microsoft Workers Protest Army Contract With Tech 'Designed To Help People Kill' https://www.npr.org/2019/02/22/697110641/microsoft-workers-protest-army-contract-with-tech-designed-to-help-people-kill 37 comments politics
- Is there a CSS Framework for Microsoft Fluent Design? https://fluent.microsoft.com/ 8 comments web_design
- Microsoft ending Windows Phone design and production? (Finnish) http://www.hs.fi/talous/a1464141679454 8 comments windowsphone
- All Microsoft employees are now going to wear badges I designed http://www.geekwire.com/2015/the-new-microsoft-even-the-blue-badges-are-getting-a-redesign/ 49 comments microsoft
- When Microsoft merges Windows and Windows Phone with Windows 10 what designs should they keep? http://www.winbeta.org/news/when-microsoft-merges-windows-and-windows-phone-windows-10-what-designs-should-they-keep 61 comments windowsphone
- TIL Microsoft has designed a website to help people figure out if they are still running Windows XP http://amirunningxp.com/ 1693 comments technology
- The curious case of Microsoft's Metro, a design language that cannot be spoken. http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/30/3577924/microsoft-design-language-metro 3 comments microsoft
- CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design (Microsoft's entry) http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/ietechcol/cols/dnexpie/csszengarden.htm 7 comments programming
- Microsoft Fixes Critical Remotely Exploitable Windows Root-Level Design Bug http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/02/12/148215/microsoft-fixes-critical-remotely-exploitable-windows-root-level-design-bug 8 comments windows
- Remember Andrew Kim from Vancouver that did the minimal Microsoft design? He starts work at the Xbox division after completing his final semester at school http://www.minimallyminimal.com/blog/msft 5 comments microsoft
- Microsoft hints at a new “modern” operating system designed to support different form factors https://speckyweb.com/2019/05/30/microsoft-hints-at-a-new-modern-operating-system-designed-to-support-different-form-factors/ 6 comments worldnews
- Video chat software Skype's name is so similar to the broadcaster Sky's that the public is likely to be confused between the two, an EU court has ruled. The judgement prevents Microsoft from registering a trademark for Skype's name and bubble-design logo. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32593735 12 comments microsoft
- iFixit CEO names and shames tech giants for right to repair obstruction - iFixit chief Kyle Wiens claims Apple, Samsung, and Microsoft are monopolising the supply chain and designing products to prevent users from being able to easily repair them. https://www.zdnet.com/article/ifixit-ceo-names-and-shames-tech-giants-for-right-to-repair-obstruction/#ftag=RSSbaffb68 189 comments apple
- iFixit CEO names and shames tech giants for right to repair obstruction - iFixit chief Kyle Wiens claims Apple, Samsung, and Microsoft are monopolising the supply chain and designing products to prevent users from being able to easily repair them. https://www.zdnet.com/article/ifixit-ceo-names-and-shames-tech-giants-for-right-to-repair-obstruction/#ftag=RSSbaffb68 13 comments microsoft
- Microsoft's head of phone design, Peter Griffith, discusses Lumia design evolution http://www.winbeta.org/news/microsofts-head-phone-design-peter-griffith-discusses-lumia-design-evolution 16 comments windowsphone
- Interesting sidebar design on Christian Heilmann's (developer at Microsoft) website... Thought my eyes were playing tricks on me at first http://christianheilmann.com/ 4 comments web_design
- Microsoft’s cancelled Lumia 960 shows its aluminium unibody and iPhone-like design in leaked images - MSPoweruser https://mspoweruser.com/microsofts-alleged-cancelled-lumia-960-shows-leaked-images/ 78 comments windowsphone
- Microsoft HoloLens Project Designer Killed in Drunk Driving Hit-and-Run: "Microsoft’s promising new HoloLens project suffered a truly unfortunate set back" http://canadianonlinegamers.com/2015/03/microsoft-hololens-project-designer-killed-in-drunk-driving-hit-and-run/ 6 comments technology
- Rise of the Literature Machines -- For his “Auto Summarize” project, graphic designer Jason Huff took the 100 most downloaded copyright-free books & reduced them each by 10 sentences with Microsoft Word 2008’s AutoSummarize function. The result is absurd & also quite funny. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2010/07/rise-of-the-literature-machines.html 9 comments books