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- European Premium TV Operator Gives Soccer Fans New Choices for Top Games
- Premiere, the leading pay TV operator in Germany and Austria, supplies premium TV programming to 3.4 million subscribers in the region. Interested in appealing to a bigger section of the 40.6 million German and Austrian TV households, Premiere developed a model offering individual premium content on a pay-per-view basis via...
- Tags: Game, Microsoft Corp., TV, Programming, User Experience, Internet, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Case studies
- MSDN Webcast: Creating Top-Notch user experiences With Windows Forms in Visual Studio .NET (Session 2) - Level 200
- Excellent user experience is often what makes or breaks an application's successful implementation. Are the UIs as good as they could be? The attendee of this webcast will learn what the powerful combination of Windows Forms and Visual Studio .NET can do to help the developer design first-class GUIs. The...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Visual Studio, Webcast, Microsoft Visual Studio.Net, GUI, User Experience, Microsoft Development Tools, Microsoft Windows, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software
- Webcasts
- Adobe Flex: Build Next-Generation Web Experiences
- Effective user experiences are the key to a company's success. An effective user experience is the difference between a customer who designs, personalizes, and purchases a product and a customer who gets frustrated and abandons a website. It's the difference between a sales manager who enters a customer meeting armed...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Customer, User Experience, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Internet
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Usability vs. user experience
- I am repeatedly struck between the difference between usability and the user experience. I know, "user experience‿ has been beaten to death by Microsoft for the last five years. You cannot have a good user experience without usability. After all, if the user cannot use your product to accomplish their...
- Tags: Experience, User, User Experience, Nothing, Search, Justin James
- Blog posts 2006-10-23
- Forcing Users to Comply
- There is one question that business folks always seem to ask technical folks, and it scares the heck out of me: "how can we force the user to comply with process XYZ?" "Process XYZ" over the years has ranged from "read a certain text" to "enter certain input" to "remember...
- Tags: Programming, User Experience, Software Development, Usability, window
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
- Will this be another lost year for Linux?
- By Steven YorkI foundmyself reading an article on Mainframe.gr explaining how 2006was another lost year for Linux and I couldn't help myself but write thisresponse in disagreement. I found that 2006 was the building of a bridgebetween Windows and Linux, it may not be complete yet but there's alreadygovernments coming...
- Tags: Guest Contributor, Kent Police, Linux, Ubuntu, User Experience
- Technical articles 2007-01-17
- Spam Software is Pretty Lousy
- I have come to a startling conclusion after spending over 12 years of my life having an @domain.com email address: the only software worse than spam filtering software is the spam sending software! We are all familiar with the problems with spam filtering software; false positives, false negatives, reliance upon...
- Tags: Interface Design, software, spam, Usability, User Experience
- Blog posts 2006-12-18
- Testing your ASP.NET application
- Microsoft's Application Center Test (ACT) is a tool that allows you to test your Web applications. Find out how to establish a test environment and create a test with the ACT product. User experience is imperative to a Web site's success, so ensuring the proper functionality...
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio.Net, Microsoft ASP.NET, Microsoft Corp., User Experience, Tony Patton, Microsoft development tools, Web servers, .NET, server, Web application, Web server, .NET Newsletter, TechRepublic Inc., Menu, Environment, Test, Application Center Test, Application Center Test Installation, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Technical articles 2005-06-27
- Testing your ASP.NET application
- User experience is imperative to a Web site'ssuccess, so ensuring the proper functionality of each feature isimportant. Once you remove all bugs, you must test the applicationin a production quality environment. That is, an environment thatsimulates the load you expect once a developer moves theapplication into production. ...
- Tags: ACT, Microsoft ASP.NET, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio.Net, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, server, Tony Patton, User Experience, Web application, Web server
- Technical articles 2005-06-27
Additional Resources
- Windows Vista user experience Walkthrough Guide
- Windows Vista is the next-generation client operating system from Microsoft, with significant advances in usability, security, and performance. This white paper will guide the reader through the Windows Vista user experience. The reader will explore many of the most visible user experience improvements in Windows Vista by following simple procedures...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2006-08-01
- Mercury Real User Monitor: Proactively Managing the User's Quality of Experience and Accelerating Time-to-Resolution
- Learn how Mercury Real User Monitor gives IT organizations the tools they need to deliver an outstanding user experience by proactively managing performance and identifying negative trends before users are impacted.
- Tags: Monitor, Mercury Interactive Corp., Productivity, Performance Management, Monitors & Displays, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Components, Management
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Usability Testing for Flash Applications
- Adobe's Flash technology has become one of the leading contenders in the Rich Internet Applications (RIA) market, with over 9 % of all browser users able to access Flash content. Providing users with a content rich, interactive user experience places a significant emphasis on the quality and look and feel...
- Tags: Experience, Internet Application, Adobe Flash Technology, Internet, Web Browsers
- White papers 2007-08-08
- User Interaction Experience for Semantic Web Information
- The Semantic Web project aims to add semantics to the existing World Wide Web. This paper proposes an extension of the Web's user interaction experience to take advantage of the added semantics. This user experience maintains the Web's original navigation paradigm, although all URIs, not just URLs, can be used...
- Tags: User Interaction, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Information, Semantics, Semantic Web, Internet
- White papers
- EDGE Evolution: The Revolution in End user experience
- EDGE is a proven and well-known technology offering a safe evolution path for enhanced user experience. This white paper examines EDGE's market potential and the benefits of EDGE Evolution for existing and future new GSM operators who may have already migrated to EDGE capable networks or who are planning to...
- Tags: EDGE
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Windows Vista Feature Focus: Windows Vista Basic User Interface
- One of the most highly-touted changes in Windows Vista is its new Windows Aero user interface, which provides high quality translucent "Glass" effects, animations, and a smoother desktop experience than was possible in previous Windows versions. However, Windows Aero requires hardware-based 3D acceleration with certain performance characteristics, sucks battery life...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2006-06-14
- End-user experience Monitoring: The Missing Link
- To make the most of your web site, web analytics technology is necessary but not sufficient. A vital complement is end-user experience monitoring, supplemented by other tools that can monitor the complex underlying technology powering the web site. This paper outlines what these different types of solutions contribute and...
- Tags: Web, Monitoring, Compuware Corp., Web Analytics, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Marketing Research, Internet, Marketing
- White papers
- Introducing Ajax and OpenAjax
- Ajax is a design approach and a set of techniques for delivering a highly interactive, desktop-like user experience for Web applications in popular HTML browsers. Ajax, which stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, improves the user's Web application experience while retaining the HTML benefits of server-based application deployment. Ajax achieves...
- Tags: AJAX, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0
- White papers 2007-02-07
- YouTubers can now edit videos on the fly
- Online video user experience stagnating?Do you think online videos portals need infusion of technology to make the experience lot more differentiating?
- Tags: Corporate communications, pr.arun@..., video
- Discussion threads 2007-06-18
- Windows Vista Review - Part 4: The Vista Experience
- Microsoft has made a concerted effort to imbue Windows Vista with a holistic user experience that was only hinted at in previous Windows versions. To understand what this means, consider the evolution of Windows: Not the pixels, widgets, and other onscreen interface elements so much as the overall "Feel" one...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2006-11-12
- Improving Usability by Adding Security to Video Conferencing Systems
- Many video conferencing solutions exist in the market nowadays and many new ones are being introduced. In striving to provide an experience to users as close to "Being there" as possible, two major design issues must be considered: security and ease of use. This paper describes a method for designing...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Video Conferencing, Security
- White papers 2007-01-10
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