The company is using the new Metro-style interface to create new versions of many services on Xbox Live.
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The fitness app functions as a social networking site with a videogame-style interface that lets users "level up" based on their physical activities.
Microsoft wants Windows to be hip and enjoyable to use, so it has come up with its own tablet-style interface and tried to make it work on tablets as well as PCs.
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Server 2012 is also defined by what you won't find: while the Metro-style interface from the platform's Windows 8 cousin shows its face in the Essentials version, it's noticeably stripped down and goes away in the more advanced tiers.
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It uses the data to give you feedback on your eating habits which can be viewed online via a sports-tracking-style web interface.
The modern UI of large typefacing, tiles and horizontal views has been pioneered and tweaked in many consumer products, From the first Windows Media Centers, through the Zune music players, and refined in the Windows Phone 7 range, Metro UI was the clean style of interface that has now been iterated into the latest products.
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The biggest issue plaguing the Resident Evil franchise aside from poor handling, lazy design, DLC and style over function interface is that after 16 years, the story has become an unholy mess.
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"Rather than innovate and develop its own technology and a unique Samsung style for its smart phone products and computer tablets, Samsung chose to copy Apple's technology, user interface and innovative style in these infringing products, " Apple said in its 38-page suit.
Windows Street Sign Interface Windows 8-style UI just wouldn't have the same ring to it.
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Before the term began in fall 2005, the school gave incoming freshmen the chance to meet and greet via a MySpace-style site called FYI (First Year Interface).
Unlike a touchscreen gaming interface, Gametel's console-style D-pad, quartet of buttons and two shoulder triggers provide responsive physical controls and make intricate and immersive games easier and fun to play.
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The software interface is also familiar enough, offering piano-roll and block-style notations that most music production platforms have standardized around.
An interface based around the human finger, it transpires, is a natural for a style of game based around pointing at things.
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