In 1992 when Visual Basic was just released, Epic made headlines with its state of the art thick client user interface based on Visual Basic.

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In other words, the user is running the server to interface with the client, rather than the other way around.

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The new client sports a new user-interface that emphasizes the discovery, playing and sharing of media to woo over more users.

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Devices with this interface will be common in client computer devices using flash memory, including notebook computers and some tablets.

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Big Picture Mode is a new interface system for Steam, one that makes the client operate similar to the Xbox Live dashboard.

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That said, for users running Microsoft Windows and using Outlook as their mail client, Microsoft's MSN desktop search beats its competitors hands down, primarily because of a superior user interface that integrates better with other Windows programs.

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