Windows 10 gets darker: in the beta released to testers the Dark Mode is updated and there are also other news
Microsoft continues to work on the design of Windows 10 in view of a substantial redesign, called WinUI, long awaited but not yet arrived. In the latest Windows build 20211 released to Insider Program subscribers there are some small, but important changes related to Dark Mode that many were waiting for.
Dark Mode, it is now clear, is the dominant trend of the last two years and now there is no app or operating system that can do without it. Even Windows has a Dark Mode, since a long time ago, but it’s far from perfect because it’s not uniform and doesn’t affect the whole OS interface, but only part of it. For example, the Start menu and search box don’t change uniformly even if Dark Mode is enabled. La build 20211 inizia a correggere queste sbavature, portando maggiore coerenza alla grafica di Windows quando è attivato il Dark Mode. Non è ancora tutto perfetto, ma è già molto meglio di prima.
Il Dark Mode colora il menu Start
Nella build 20211 Microsoft inizia a correggere queste incertezze del Dark Mode di Windows 10: compare uno sfondo nero in Windows Search, nei menu della ricerca e nelle pagine di ricerca fornite da Bing. Anche i messaggi pop up diventano scuri come la taskbar e il menu Start.
Non si tratta di grandi cambiamenti, ma di piccoli interventi mirati per rendere più gradevole e meno disturbante il Dark Mode di Windows 10: avere una modalità scura incompleta, con improvvise fiammate di bianco, è un pugno nell’occhio e stanca anche la vista.
You can enable the dark theme by going to Settings > Customization > Colors > Choose your color > Dark.
The future: WinUI
While smoothing out the Dark Mode’s imperfections, Microsoft is also proceeding with the development of WinUI, the new user interface that will be integrated into Windows (sooner or later). New traces of the new WinUI have in fact been found in another beta version of Windows, the Build 20197.
WinUI is an interface that Microsoft has been developing for years, designed to be used on devices other than desktop PCs and laptops, especially foldable devices such as Microsoft’s Surface Duo, and can be implemented in both regular Win32 apps and UWP (Universal Windows Platform) apps.