![]() ![]() ![]() (Strangely, you could never pin an email to the home screen). The Windows Phone home screen was a pinboard for people – with their tiles updated in real time to reflect their activity – and a place to pin locations, or web pages, or peripherals, or documents. Android was designed as a dashboard for a custom car enthusiast: crammed with counters and meters and extra buttons (widgets). The iPhone home screen remains a grid of apps to this day. For a while, a Window Phone could do social media far better than anyone else: posting to multiple social networks and aggregating their feeds, leading to the global “Smoked by Windows Phone” campaign. Smooth scrolling is elusive on Android even after Google’s optimisations, on today’s eight-core SoCs and huge GPUs, but on Windows Phone it was smooth and reliable from the start.Ī Windows Phone had a Zen-like simplicity to it, and Microsoft had tried hard to design the UX around people and people-centred tasks. Also, I think Windows XP SP1 and the original without service packs are abandonware. The CD has the product key printed ON the disk, so am I allowed to blur it out. Over the years, rivals would steal elements from the design, such as side-swiping and using text as buttons, while Microsoft strived to tone down the radical look. What I did not mention is that the CD is from Indiana University, so it is a volume license. It required much less thumb work and stretching than an iPhone. /rebates/&252fwindows-xp-abandonware. The design’s value only became apparent when you used it. Windows Phone looked like it had beamed down from another planet, with the UI ripped from the oddball Zune music player and refined for a phone.
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