Potentially more in box app updates

Seeing as people were surprised by Notepad receiving a facelift, I wanted to point out that these app updates have been hinted at in the videos posted on Twitter.

I think they’ve been too slow to roll out so its possible that we could see the following apps updated in the future

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We have seen Calculator, Clock / Focus Sessions, Notepad, Snipping Tool, Photos, Paint, Terminal, Teams, and Store.

We know about the following apps receiving updates:

  • Edge Canary having the Mica in the menu bar like File Explorer and in the right-click context menu
  • We’ve seen a new media player app UI which could be used in both ‘Films & TV’ and the ‘New music app formerly known as Groove’
  • There’s an updated Your Phone app UI here: https://twitter.com/bojorchess/status/1444351050413080592

The following we haven’t seen much of the following:

  • Calendar: This is surprising because Mail isn’t on this grid. It is possible that the new Calendar app will get refreshed and the existing Mail app is replaced by One Outlook.
  • Camera: Possibly another UI refresh but hope there are some functionality improvements like a virtual camera that uses the Teams blurring/background that can be used for all applications.
  • News: I think this could be replaced with the new Microsoft Start -https://twitter.com/vigneshponnuvel/status/1435252030113681415
  • To Do: Either a WinUI refresh or a PWA wrapper for the Web Version
  • Voice Recorder, Maps, Weather: Possibly a Win UI Refresh

 

Conversation 3 comments

  • jimchamplin

    Premium Member
    19 October, 2021 - 2:08 pm

    <p>Speak for yourself, but I’m waiting for the new version of Dr. Watson.</p>

    • h8zgray

      Premium Member
      21 October, 2021 - 1:13 pm

      <p>DWWIN.EXE for the win!!, wasn’t the icon for that program in the likeness of B. Gates?</p>

  • dftf

    21 October, 2021 - 4:27 pm

    <p>I’d say "good-luck" expecting updates for some of the apps (beyond just a UI refresh).</p><p><br></p><p>Right-now in Windows 10, both "Microsoft News" and "Weather" have never been updated to use the system accent-colour: <em>News </em>is always red; <em>Weather</em> is always blue.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Mail </em>they probably won’t want to make too-good, given <em>Outlook </em>is a thing they sell. Though what they should do is just make it so the <em>Mail </em>app only supports free accounts and personal M365, but not business M365 or Exchange. Then they could improve it with little worry of lower interest in <em>Outlook</em>.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Films &amp; TV </em>and <em>Groove Music</em> both work fairly-well right now, but they really need to add more codec support. Many videos simply can’t be played in them, and only sometimes does the Store offer a free codec to install.</p><p><br></p><p>And with some other apps, like <em>Calendar, Calculator, Sticky Notes </em>or <em>Voice Recorder</em>, I’d struggle to see what more could really be added. (On the Win32 side, I’d expect <em>Notepad </em>and <em>Task Manager</em> to both gain a dark-mode sometime soon.)</p>

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