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The current trend in browser design, led by Google Chrome, is to scale back the browser’s interface so that it takes less and less of the screen, devoting more room to the web content itself. Windows 8’s Metro design similarly removes window chrome to put the focus on content. The Metro version of Internet Explorer feels slick and comfortable using both touch and mouse and keyboard interaction. Particular highlights are the tile-based favorites view and the tab thumbnails, both shown to good effect in Microsoft’s post on their website.

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Nokia’s Lumia 800 takes the gorgeous design of the N9 and slaps a new coat of Windows Phone 7 paint. The end result is a phone that’ll be drooled over by Windows Phone 7 aficionados, and could well influence a few switchers along the way. When Gizmodo US reviewed the Lumia 800, they referred to it as “unattainable Foreign Beauty” — a gorgeouslooking Windows Phone 7 handset that wasn’t easy to get your hands on. That was some time back, though, and Nokia’s finally got the Lumia 800 out on Australian store shelves, along with quite a large advertising push. It’s easy to see why; Nokia’s essentially bet the farm on Windows Phone 7, and until we get a firm release

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