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The Xbox One February update is expected to fix a number of things that have been irking owners of Microsoft’s latest gaming console. Originally intended to be released earlier this week, the company announced that it was pushing back the release by a couple of days due to reasons not disclosed. Now finally the Xbox One February update is out, though that doesn’t mean all users around the world will get it immediately, it may take a couple of days for the update to become available across all regions.

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This article was written on July 16, 2007 by CyberNet.

Microsoft published an interesting patent on July 12th that details what could very well be a Windows Taskbar replacement. The images associated with the application can be viewed in this PDF that I put together, otherwise you need to have a TIFF image viewer (or QuickTime) installed to view the images in your browser.

The patent details what Microsoft calls Clipping Lists, and the details at this point are pretty slim. The Microsoft Research group working Clipping Lists say that it will offer:

• Significantly faster task completion times
• Significantly fewer task switches
• Adding change detection is even better!
• Faster task resumption after switch

As with all patent applications the mockups are in black & white with poor quality, so it’s hard to make out what Microsoft is really trying to get across here. For comparison sake this is what the patent demonstrates as the current state of the Taskbar:

The new Clipping List will let users group and order applications in a sidebar in whatever fashion they would like. Here’s a mockup of what that might look like:

To make it easy to monitor the progress of running applications you could expand them to contain a thumbnail. For example, at a glance you would be able to see when your presentation software is done loading a video:

Looking around I came across a presentation that was given on the Clipping Lists, and it had screenshots that were a little more colorful but still lacked any elegance:

There you can see what two "categorized" items look like with some live previews of the running application.

It’s still not clear whether Microsoft has intentions of replacing the Taskbar in the next version of Windows (due out in 2009), but I definitely welcome something that is more productive. I think that Microsoft is on to something with their ideas here, and with the increasing popularity of widescreen monitors it is inevitable that the Taskbar will move into the sidebar.

So what do you think of the idea? Do you think that this is more productive than the current Taskbar and Mac OS X’s Dock?

Source: I Started Something

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For years we have been hearing how Microsoft could be developing a version of Office for the iPad. Given the popularity of the iPad and how Microsoft’s Office suite is just as popular and used by students, office workers, and government officials around the world, the combination of both hardware and software does make sense. However last we heard, Office for the iPad would only arrive once the touch-friendly version of the app for Windows is released. Well the good news is that perhaps we might not have to wait too long after all, thanks to a report from ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley.

According to Foley, she has heard from her sources that Office for the iPad could be arriving sooner than we think, and that it might even arrive ahead of the Windows 8 touch-friendly version as well. “According to one of my contacts, Ballmer OK’d the suggestion by the Office team that they’d bring Office for iPad to market as soon as it was ready, even though that would likely mean before the Windows 8 version.” Foley also states that she has heard that the app would see a release within the first half of 2014, while previously her sources informed her that its release would be in the Fall of 2014, so for those looking forward to some familiar productivity apps on their tablets, this is definitely something worth keeping an eye out for.

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