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Metro live tiles11/26/2022 ![]() ![]() SEE: Microsoft is discontinuing Cortana consumer skills starting with Windows 10 20H1 Without the tile, each app's icon stands out and is more obvious to users. In Microsoft's before-and-after demonstration, it's clear why the company's designers want to veer away from solid blocks of color.įluent Design icons for apps like Edge, Word, and Outlook are overshadowed by each tile's dominant colors. Microsoft has been toying with the idea of removing Live Tiles for at least a year, well before it revealed Windows 10X for the Surface Neo and other dual-screen Windows devices. The design change is meant to offer better support for system-wide light and dark modes, offering users a cleaner design in either mode. The new Start Menu would introduce a more "acrylic, fluent theme" compared with the bright, solid colors that aren't consistent with its Fluent Design System. It also wants to introduce the change without annoying Windows 10 users who like Live Tiles. The idea is to present a visually unified design for the Start Menu compared with what Microsoft says was "a somewhat chaotic color". Microsoft currently plans to lets users turn off Live Tiles to reveal the new icon interface. It would also bring the desktop interface in line with Microsoft's dual-screen Windows 10X Start Menu, which eschews Live Tiles for app icons. SEE: 20 pro tips to make Windows 10 work the way you want (free PDF) However, the demonstration suggests Microsoft could soon diverge from the original concept of Live Tiles introduced in Window 10 in 2015.
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