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Microsoft stripped out Aero Glass — a transparent and blurry glass effect — from Windows 8, but it looks like it’s making a slight return in Windows 10. Leaked screenshots from Chinese site IT Home reveal that the latest internal builds of Windows 10 include a new blurred transparency effect on the Start Menu. While this doesn’t extend to app windows themselves, the glass effect looks identical to the Aero Glass used in Windows Vista and Windows 7. It’s only applied to the Start Menu, and the transparency effect is removed when the Start Menu transforms into a fullscreen Start Screen. With just a day until Microsoft’s Build 2015 keynote, it’s clear the software maker has plenty of UI tweaks to reveal. In other Windows 10 build 10102 screenshots, you can see changes to Live Tiles. A new 3D flip effect is present, in what looks like a move away from the flat Metro-style flipping Tiles of the past. It’s subtle, but an animation change that matches the pop effect of the Start Menu itself. Microsoft is also greatly improving the UI of the Cortana digital assistant. Cortana is now more closely integrated into the Start Menu search experience, and it now features a hamburger menu to access settings and options quickly. The black and white aspects of Cortana match the theme changes Microsoft is making to Windows 10. While these are mostly minor changes to Windows 10, they do demonstrate that the operating system is far from complete. Microsoft has promised to deliver a final version of Windows 10 in the summer period, and AMD’s CEO recently hinted that it could arrive in late July. Microsoft is planning to detail its Windows 10 plans at its Build 2015 developers conference tomorrow. The Verge will be live blogging Microsoft’s most important keynote of the year starting at 11:30AM ET tomorrow morning. Source : http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/28/8507449/windows-10-screenshots-new-ui-3d-live-tiles-leak

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As more universal apps have been previewed on Windows 10 across desktop and phone devices it has become very apparent that the Hamburger Menu has found a spot in the design of these new apps. Two weekends ago this reality received a huge push forward when a former member of the Office for Windows Phone team held his own Reddit Ask Me Anything and talked about the design of Windows 10 Mobile. Based on that and what we are seeing in the latest builds of Windows 10 the Hamburger Menu is sticking around and that does not appear to be changing anytime soon. This week is Microsoft’s BUILD 2015 developer conference so it is expected that more about Windows 10 design will be discussed. Those discussions should bring about some clarity about where Microsoft is headed with the overall look and functionality of the OS including the Hamburger Menus. Last week we asked you about your opinion on the Hamburger Menu and you clearly preferred it by almost a 100 vote difference. By the way, as I was checking out BUILD 2015 related apps over the weekend, I did discover one silent protest against the Hamburger Menu in an app called //DRINK/ The Build Party Guide: Just tap on the Hamburger Menu on the apps main screen to see it for yourself. Source : http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/poll-results-hamburgers-almost-everyone

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Me too! I'd even switch from Windows phone to Nexus. :D

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As expected, Google has finally announced the details of its wireless smartphone service that will, at least at first, piggyback on the networks of Sprint and T-Mobile. It’s called Project Fi and plans with unlimited talk/text, unlimited international texting, and WiFi tethering will start at $30/month, with each gigabyte of data you use costing an additional $10. And if you don’t use your full allotment, your account gets credited accordingly. Google has details of the plans available here. In terms of pricing, there is currently only one base tier for phone/text, and that’s $20/month. Each gigabyte of data costs $10/month. So the lowest cost plan is $30/month (phone/texting + 1GB of data). A 2GB/month plan would cost you $40, and so on in increments of $10. But if you don’t use the full amount of data for a month, your account gets credited. “Let’s say you go with 3GB for $30 and only use 1.4GB one month,” writes Google. “You’ll get $16 back, so you only pay for what you use.” While Google is using existing wireless networks from Sprint and T-Mobile for Fi, it says the system will constantly be searching for the optimal connection, which may sometimes be a WiFi hotspot. So the idea is that Fi will switch between the two to minimize the amount of data being used over the cellular networks and to provide you the fastest available connection at any given time. “As you go about your day, Project Fi automatically connects you to more than a million free, open Wi-Fi hotspots we’ve verified as fast and reliable,” writes the company. “Once you’re connected, we help secure your data through encryption. When you’re not on Wi-Fi, we move you between whichever of our partner networks is delivering the fastest speed, so you get 4G LTE in more places. Learn more about our network of networks.” Of course, until we see it in action, we have no idea how seamlessly these transitions will work or if the use of WiFi will result in significant changes to wireless data use. Right now, Fi is an invite-only service and you’ll need to have a Google Nexus 6 device. To request an invite, first go to this site to see if your area is covered, and then go here to actually request the invite. Source :http://consumerist.com/2015/04/22/googles-project-fi-wireless-smartphone-service-offers-data-at-10gb-will-credit-you-for-unused-data/

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