But now, nearly five years later, the company has hit that goal — as it announced earlier this week. To celebrate, Surface head honcho Panos Panay shared a video that teases a cleaner look for the OS, adopting more of the Fluent-UI touches the company has slowly been rolling out.
A post shared by Panos Panay (@panospanay) on Mar 19, 2020 at 12:47pm PDT Though the video is low resolution, we catch a few glimpses at aesthetic changes. There’s a new take on the File Explorer, including some nifty new icons and a more minimalist design. The Start Menue is cleaner as well, with Live Tiles that now have a background to match your light or dark theme. And at long last, Microsoft is updating its right-click menus to match Fluent UI. While the changes seem superficially small, they help pull together the various changes Microsoft has been implementing since announcing Windows 10, and especially since revealing the Fluent UI design goals in 2017. Microsoft is holding a virtual event on March 30, which is expected to focus on Office related-news, such as a new subscription service for everyday users that combines Office, Teams, a new password manager, and more. I would expect to hear more about the upcoming UI changes during its Build 2020 event, which is being held online due to, you guessed it, coronavirus. Via The Verge
