Introducing the new Windows Phone 8 (+ new Start Screen)


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Curious about the new Windows Phone 8 features like NFC, IE10, Wallet, etc…?
Find out more on: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2012/06/20/announcing-windows-phone-8.aspx

 

Bing Webmaster Tools gets a Metro redesign and new features

Again, a very clean update/upgrade. Something you should check out!

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The new Bing

Bing introduces a new design, way to search and connect all data. You will now have your core search results, a snapshot area and a sidebar.
They will improve the connection of real object and social entities together with your search results. If you are concerned about your (Facebook) privacy: they also announced at the Bing Search Summit that they respect the Facebook privacy settings and that it is their priority 1, 2, 3 and 4 to protect your privacy.

Some images from the Bing Search Summit webcast:

I just don’t like this “US”-only thing:

 

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Web design trend: Metro UI

The Zune and Windows Phone brought a new User Interface (UI) design to the mobile world called Metro UI.

Not only in Windows Phone or Windows applications we see the rise of this new Metro UI style, even websites are adopting them.

Today even Microsoft launched the redesigned microsoft.com website.

Site www.microsoft.com:

Site www.touchality.com:

Site www.touchality.com/blog:

Site www.monsmartphone.net:

Site www.windowsteamblog.com:

Site www.metrotwit.com:
(The application itself is also a great example of a Windows application with a Metro UI)

Site www.mykindofphone.com:

Site www.msdn.com:

Site http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/apps/:

Site www.buildwindows.com:

Site www.winrumors.com:

Site www.windowsphone.com:

Site www.computerman.gr:

Site www.bing.com/webmaster:
(if you sign in/up, on the website)

Site www.server-talk.eu:

I hope this gives you some design inspiration ;)

More information about the Metro UI can be found on Wikipedia.

Update 2012-06-13: added some other sites
Update 2010-08-02: added some other sites