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| New Windows 10 interface |
Two years behind its original target, Windows 10 finally hit the billion user mark just recently. On this occasion, Panos Panay, the product manager and head of the Surface division at Microsoft today shared a video that gives us an interesting overview of the developments of the Windows 10 interface as well as those to come.
The video begins with a quick history of the presentation of the start screens and the Windows Start button, since version 1.01 of the system. We then see scrolling different versions of Windows 10 interfaces since its launch to result in a much more modern design.
New Start menu and a revisited file explorer
Fluent Design obliges, the Start menu changes to a more refined look with new icons and less colors for dynamic tiles whose removal has also been announced for some time. These changes greatly simplify the menu and facilitate navigation between the different applications of the interface.
We can also see the new Windows application icons (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, OneDrive, etc.) that Microsoft has already started to deploy in the latest OS updates. The video also teases other changes that could easily go unnoticed. Microsoft is working on improving Windows 10 graphics with more modern context menus and smoother, more transparent application windows.
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| Windows context menu |
The other big change concerns a new version of Windows file explorer as we can see in the video. This version seems to be based on the explorer interface in Windows 10X. We explain in this article how to install and test it now on Windows 10. This new version is simplified, modern and much more airy, but seems above all more suitable for dual screen devices than computers for professional use.
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