Understanding The Windows Vista User Experience - Fonts

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Windows Vista: Understanding The Windows

Vista User Experience: Fonts:


Author: Charles Hayes:



Windows Vista is a line of graphical

operating systems used on personal

computers, including home and business

desktops, notebook computers, Tablet

PCs, and media centers. Prior to its

announcement on July 22, 2005, Windows

Vista was known by its codename

"Longhorn". Development was completed

on November 8, 2006; over the following

three months it was released in stages

to computer hardware and software

manufacturers, business customers, and

retail channels. On January 30, 2007, it

was released worldwide to the general

public, and was made available for

purchase and downloading from Microsoft's

web site. The release of Windows Vista comes

more than five years after the introduction

of its predecessor, Windows XP, making it

the longest time span between two releases

of Microsoft Windows.

Windows Vista contains hundreds of new

features; some of the most significant

include an updated graphical user

interface and visual style dubbed Windows

Aero, improved searching features, new

multimedia creation tools such as Windows

DVD Maker, and completely redesigned

networking, audio, print, and display

sub-systems. Vista also aims to increase

the level of communication between

machines on a home network using

peer-to-peer technology, making it easier

to share files and digital media between

computers and devices. For developers,

Vista includes version 3.0 of the .NET

Framework, which aims to make it

significantly easier for developers to

write high-quality applications than with

the traditional Windows API.






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Topics Include:


* Understanding The Windows Vista

User Experience:

@ Fonts:

* Introduction:

A. Windows Has a Lot of Strange Characters:

B. You Can Never Have Enough Glyphs:

1. How Windows Jumped from 224 Glyphs

to 652 to 100,000:

2. Making Progress in International

Communications:

C. How to Enter ANSI Characters from the

Keyboard:

1. Alt+Number Works in All Windows Apps:

2. The "Dead Key" Method Is the Fastest:

3. When All Else Fails, Head for the Symbol Menu:

D. How to Spell Words Good:

E. Unicode: One Font to Rule Them All:

1. WGLA Represents a Temporary Solution, at Best:

2. The Top 1,000 Characters of All Time:

F. Entering Unicode Characters from the Keyboard:

1. Application Support for Special Characters:

G. Who Has Which Fonts?

1. Love at First Sort, or Baby, Your're My Type:

2. Displaying Font Samples the Fastest Way:

3. The Fonts Everyone Has:

4. The Fonts Virtually Everyone Has:

5. The Fonts Most, But Not All, Users Have:

6. The New Vista Font Collection:

7. Who's Running Which Versions of Windows?

H. Which Fonts Are Web-Safe Fonts?

1. The Most Web-Safe Font Is Courier:

2. Web-Safe Sans-Serif Fonts:

3. Web-Safe Serif Fonts:

4. Web-Safe Monospaced Fonts:

5. Don't Use the Symbol Font in HTML:

6. What Are the Fonts with the Funny Names For?

I. How To Get the Best Free Fonts:

1. The 20 Best Free Fonts:

2. Other Feee Font Lists:

3. The Best Free Scientific Fonts:

4. The Best Programmers' Fonts:

5. How to Get the Best Commercial Fonts:

6. What About a Condensed Font?

7. What About Font Utilities?

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