Comments on: Native live font previews in Windows 7

By: Sam Johnson

Sam Johnson — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:49:09 +0000

Si,
The new Segoe UI Semibold really helped us get the look we needed for our WPF app (Cairo shell); thanks a million for including it!

By: Si

Si — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:49:52 +0000

Sorry I didn’t spot this post earlier (been on vacation). One note, the “mini-site” can be accessed from a link in the fonts folder “get more font information online” and we plan to expand upon the content in the future.

Glad you like the new Segoe UI’s – we wanted to expand the palette of styles available to UI designers, and we hope to see them used more and more.

Cheers, Si

By: Shinji

Shinji — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:21:21 +0000

@Leo I just checked and they do use a generic font for symbol fonts. You can see this if you scroll to the end of the list and you will find the various Webdings fonts will be generic type for the name but the preview area shows the actual font.

By: shi7e

shi7e — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:31:06 +0000

but it does still suck.. not as much suck , but still a great deal of suck to be seen in a the most important and common areas used.. fixing up sucky areas like this font dialog, that’s not seen or used often if at all.. does nothing to really decrease the overall suckage found in vis7a.

By: al

al — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:55:31 +0000

Ok, so now we know that Microsoft put half a brain into Windows 7 rather than no brain. Now they have an OS that doesn’t suck in every way.

^_^

Finally!

By: senti

senti — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:41:06 +0000

@Long Zheng
you’re right. I think you should change the title of this post or write a better explanation.

By: anon

anon — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:29:43 +0000

One drawback of the new Load/Save boxes is the left pane doesn’t have locations at the same place (against muscle memory) and an unnecessary scrollbar is introduced. Accessing your Favorite location almost always requires scrolling up or clicking the tiny arrow on the breadcrumb. BAD UI. Fire the Explorer team.

@shi7e, yeah I know imageshack but it deletes the image if the bandwidth limit is exceeded. Besides, haven’t you heard of anything called Rapidshare collector’s account?

By: Jake Rocheleau

Jake Rocheleau — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:16:00 +0000

I just got one of the new Dell Inspirons the other day and it came with the free upgrade to Windows 7 upon release. I am very excited, can’t wait for it to come out!

By: shi7e

shi7e — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:00:16 +0000

“I mean they did update the open and save dialog’s”

yeah and what great job they did on that NOT…. updated NOT improved.

its complete crap.. +includes a fail crumb bar for added shit experience. Whoever is in charge of Explorer and all areas of its infestation throughout the OS need sacking for delivering such a shit non customizable experience.

“http://rapidshare.com/files/260772678/Font_type.png.”

rapidshite for .png image upload? you ever heard of imagshack or any other image upload services…and you choose…. get out noob.

By: anon

anon — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:05:34 +0000

Some users are indeed going to be pissed off: http://rapidshare.com/files/260772678/Font_type.png. Windows had got some points at XvsXP for this “feature”: http://www.xvsxp.com/system/fonts_apply.php