Neowin News Feed for: Gui

Former Microsoft executive explains why Windows GUI strategy is such a mess

Usama Jawad — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:28:01 +0000

Decades of mixed signals and sudden pivots from Microsoft have left Windows developers stuck juggling overlapping tools with no clear direction. Read more...

Microsoft veteran explains the flawed yet cool old Windows trick to restart PCs much faster

Sayan Sen — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:40:01 +0000

Microsoft's veteran engineer has explained how a very cool old Windows trick worked that allowed the system to restart quickly. Read more...

NordVPN's GUI app for Linux is now open source

David Uzondu — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 07:48:01 +0000

NordVPN has open-sourced its Linux GUI client on GitHub, roughly two years after it open-sourced the CLI. Read more...

"Open Source Windows" ReactOS just got better GUI install setup, no GPT yet

Sayan Sen — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 22:46:01 +0000

ReactOS, which is referred to sometimes as the Open source Windows, has received another major update. Following wider UEFI bootability, the OS has now got an upgraded installation setup GUI. Read more...

AMD finally brings Windows Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling to RX 7900, 7800, 7000 series

Sayan Sen — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 08:48:01 +0000

AMD has finally added Windows' Hardware accelerated GPU scheduling support to the company's latest RDNA 3-based RX 7000 series GPUs, namely, the RX 7900 series, 7800 series, and 7700 series. Read more...

WingetUI gets custom sources, filtering, performance boost, Defender block prevention

Sayan Sen — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 08:04:01 +0000

WingetUI has received a multitude of upgrades with its latest update. The new release brings performance boosts related to packages and CLI, new special icons, digital signing, and more. Read more...

Legacy and Windows LAPS passwords can now be handled using this unofficial GUI tool

Sayan Sen — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 06:30:02 +0000

A third-party GUI tool is now available for the recently released Windows LAPS. In case you haven't been following and missed it, the current implementation of LAPS has issues with legacy interop. Read more...

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Bash plus Windows 10 equals Linux GUI apps on the Windows desktop

Andrew Stevenson — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 09:10:02 +0000

Some hard working developers have figured out how to run Linux GUI apps side-by-side with Windows 10 interface apps, within the Windows 10 interface, all thanks to bash on Windows 10. Read more...

Trivia Tuesday: Apple invention misconceptions

Tim Schiesser — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:18:40 +0000

While Apple may be an industry leader in several markets with products like the iPad and iPhone, there are some things that people think the company has invented but they actually haven't Read more...

Xerox PARC: the minds behind laser printing, GUI, ethernet, and more

Julio Franco — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:18:40 +0000

Launched in 1970, Xerox's PARC has played an instrumental role in the engineering of laser printing and many of the technologies that compose the PC you're reading this on: ethernet, the mouse, GUI... Read more...

Windows Phone 7 interface analyzed

Andrew Fairbairn — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:30:26 +0000

In building the new Windows Phone 7 Series mobile operating system Microsoft started from scratch to create a user interface which was both easy to use and visually appealing. Luke Wroblewski, the chief design architect... Read more...

First Firefox 3.7 redesign screenshots released

Sam Symons — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:58:11 +0000

Mozilla's popular Firefox browser is on the up and up; with version 3.5 recently released, it's making very good progress, and now, the organization has revealed some concepts for a redesign they plan to be... Read more...