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The newest features making their way to Chromebooks include a Live Captions feature, inline search results for simple questions, a new Diagnostics app, and a direct scanning capability.

Usman Khan Lodhi · Apr 21, 2021 with 0 comments

Microsoft addresses more of the most common concerns users have with the Start screen in Windows 8. In addition, they've left a hint of what the All Programs view will evolve into.

Denis Wong · Oct 11, 2011 · Hot! with 68 comments

We're just in a session on design practices in Windows 7. Microsoft just demonstrated a usability test where a user hovered over the new taskbar and was impressed so much they just continued playing around...

Tom Warren · Oct 29, 2008 · Hot! with 16 comments

Betanews has posted a 6 page study into the useability of Microsoft Windows XP, nice read! Below a Blurb: Bloomsburg University students were recruited for this research from communication classes. Student volunteers were...

Steven Parker · Nov 1, 2001 with -1 comments

Many of us reading this article probably can't remember the feeling of being daunted by sitting in front of a computer for the first time. For a lot of us, we spent years with DOS...

· Sep 3, 2001 with -1 comments