The World of Windows

Secondo le statistiche del infographic , ci sono 585.000 applicazioni sul negozio di Apple, 450.000 applicazioni su Android Market e le 82.234 applicazioni disponibili attualmente sul negozio di Microsoft. Un fatto interessante è che più di 300.000 applicazioni per cellulari sono stati sviluppati negli ultimi tre anni. Il numero totale di applicazioni scaricate finora supera i 250 miliardi di applicazioni di Apple, 10 miliardi di Android e di 217 milioni di applicazioni Windows. L'infografica mostra anche che il mercato ha prodotto 7,3 miliardi dollari fatturato nel 2011 e ha previsto che i ricavi raggiungeranno 36,7 miliardi dollari entro il 2015. If you liked this article, subscribe to the feed by clicking the image below to keep informed about new contents of the blog:

Windows 8 tablets aren’t in good shape: Microsoft’s OS gets plenty of hate for its desktop functionality, and many people aren’t willing to pay premium prices for the ability to run Office—and not much else—on what amounts to be keyboard-less PCs. Indeed, with Windows 8 and Windows RT making up just 7.5 percent of the total tablet market, many manufacturers are fleeing what they perceive to be a sinking platform. It looks really bad, right? Not so fast. At Thursday’s big Samsung event , the Korean tech giant might have just thrown Microsoft the life-preserver it needs to help keep Windows tablets in the game. Here are three ways Samsung can lend Microsoft a helping hand. Solving the software problem. After announcing another handful of Android smartphones (all with the name “Galaxy S4” and whatever noun Samsung decided to tack onto the end), the company surprised those in attendance by unveiling two new slates running Windows 8: the Ativ Q and the Ativ Tab 3 . The Ativ Q is ...

Gartner is giving the thumbs up to Windows 8.1, crediting the operating system refresh with overcoming the major downsides of Windows 8. Improvements to Windows 8 that will become available next week should prompt businesses to consider deploying it for desktops and laptops, not just touchscreen devices, Gartner analysts say. While the operating system originally released last fall is heavily touch-centric, the announced changes that come with Windows 8.1 should be enough to make the new version enterprise ready, say Gartner analysts Michael A. Silver and Stephen Kleynhans. "Based on the information currently available, we believe Windows 8.1 features could quiet most of its detractors," they say in a blog post. Those improvements include the capability to boot directly to the desktop rather than the Windows 8 Start screen and restoration of a Start button on the desktop. Ready access to the desktop should make it easier for users to find a familiar interface, and Gartn...

There's a lot written about the Apple App Store and Android Market , but they're hardly the only games in town. Here's your comprehensive look at the entire app ecosystem. Spoiler: it's huge . It's so oddly reassuring that a fart simulator is in the top 20 all time paid App Store apps, isn't it? Maybe that's just me. [ Online MBA ]   If you liked this article, subscribe to the feed by clicking the image below to keep informed about new contents of the blog:

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1.- App landscape for Windows Phone. Windows Phone is a software platform that can improve a person’s life. Its ability to do so is determined by the apps that it can run. It’s up to designers and developers to create the apps that meet specific customer needs in a way that’s engaging. People use their Windows Phone under all kinds of situations and for many different reasons. One person may use his Windows Phone primarily to stay connected with his friends while another person may use hers to help manage her busy schedule. Other people may be using their Windows Phones to enjoy a mental escape through games, music, videos, reading, or social networking. Windows Phone Store is where customers go to find the exact app that meets their needs. The Store categorizes apps by their functionality. Some categories are further broken out into subcategories. Examples of the top-level categories are News and Weather, Health and Fitness, Sports, Productivity, Lifestyle, Finance, Travel, Ga...

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When making great apps for the Windows Phone, it’s important to not only consider what content the customer will see, but also the words you use to communicate with them. We call this voice.  Refining your app’s voice will help you and your app resonate with your customers and ensure a better overall user experience. We bring voice to the forefront for our customers by understanding our audience, applying the right messaging, and being contextually aware. Here are some tips to help you successfully implement voice for your app. Talking to our customers We connect with our audience using an authenticity that’s reflected in every aspect of the Windows Phone brand – through visuals, words, and voice – whether on packaging, in the product, or on the web. Here are our guiding principles for the Windows Phone voice: Genuine Speak directly and with sincerity – it’s about being straightforward and to the point, as opposed to being vague or redundant. ...

The Windows Phone user interface framework provides consistent system objects, events, and interactions that you can use to create beautiful, natural app experiences for people using their apps.  This topic looks at each piece of the framework and discusses how it can be used or accommodated within app user interfaces. The following figure shows off the Windows Phone screen real estate as it might look when an app is running. The Status Bar is an indicator bar that displays system-level status info simply and cleanly within a reserved space in the app workspace. Windows Phone screen Status bar. The Status Bar is an indicator bar that displays system-level status info simply and cleanly within a reserved space in the app workspace. It updates automatically to provide different notifications and keeps users aware of system-level status by displaying the following info (in order from left to right): Signal strength Data connection Call forwarding ...

1.-  Designing the Windows 8 touch keyboard. When we began planning how touch and new types of PCs might work on Windows 8, we recognized the need to provide an effective method for text entry on tablets and other touch screen PCs. Since Windows XP SP1, which had Tablet PC features built in, Windows has included a touchable on-screen keyboard. But those features were designed as extensions to the desktop experience.  For Windows 8, we set out to improve on that model and introduce text input support that meets people’s needs, matches our design principles, and works well with the form factors we see today and expect to see in the future. I’m writing this blog post on our Windows 8 touch keyboard using the standard QWERTY layout in English. As I look at it, the keyboard seems very simple and sort of obvious. This comes partly from having worked on it for a while, but also because keyboards are familiar to us. But there is more here than meets the eye (or, fingertips). 2.- ...