Wrapping up our series of posts on some of the new apps in Windows 8, we take a look at the new Photos app.  With this app, along with Metro style design principles, we set out to design an app that allows you to bring together photos from many different sources and to then view and share them.  Brad Weed, a group program manager in the Windows Live team authored this post. ...
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This post builds on the Mail app and People app posts, and details the Calendar app. We’ve worked hard to integrate these apps together into a seamless communication suite that connects to the cloud services most important to you. This post details the integration with Windows 8, some of the features in the current preview, and features on the way. We also look at a little bit of the...
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Hundreds of thousands of folks have been using the “App Preview” of Mail on a daily basis since the Windows 8 Release Preview. We’ve also been updating it along the way through the new Windows Store with more updates planned. In this post we go into the background of the Mail app and talk about the design and features, especially relative to Metro style design principles. This...
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Managing “contacts” has been a bit of a challenge for many, especially as the number of places that contacts can be stored and the number of PCs and devices we use to access those contacts has increased.  Storing contacts in the cloud for easy roaming and connectivity is a part of the solution.  With Windows 8 and the new People app, we are taking cloud storage a step...
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One topic that we’ve demonstrated quite a bit is how apps on a Windows 8 PC can communicate with other apps and web services.  At the start of Windows 8 we chose an approach where apps can be the source or destination for data you want to share—sort of like a clipboard, but with a richer interaction model and clearer semantics. When an app implements a contract, Windows 8 can provide...
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