Microsoft brings Clear theme to its OneDrive desktop app

After Clear theme made its way to the Sticky Notes app, Microsoft has updated its OneDrive app for Windows 10 to bring said theme. The theme made its appearance as a new feature in the Windows 10 May 2019 update. If you prefer things to be a bit brighter, you’re going to appreciate the update. Aside from the new colour scheme, the app also gets regular bug fixes and performance improvements.

Source: MSPowerUser

Microsoft kills off Windows 10’s Sets feature

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Before it really rolled out to the public, the Microsoft Sets is no more. This feature is designed to keep your app data, sites, and other info in view through a browser-like tab. But now the feature isn’t coming back. According to reports the feature just “wasn’t well received or understood.” The team still wants to bring tabs into the Windows Console but it won’t use Sets as the groundwork.

The decision to kill it off reportedly came when it was decided that Edge will be using Chromium. The work needed to be done to integrate the feature into the new Edge would’ve meant a delay for Edge’s release or the feature was going to be unsupported for months. If the feedback that was reported is going to be believed, then the company probably decided it wasn’t worth the effort to do so.

Source: Engadget

Windows 10’s Game Bar tests Spotify support and meme generator

Microsoft updates its Game Bar overlay in beta to add a few features you gamers might welcome. One is adding a Spotify widget to let you play, pause, and skip tracks within a game. You can also change the current playback device as well as adjust volume without leaving the game you’re playing. The widget will offer playlist recommendations, too. Another feature coming to the Game Bar is letting you create memes you can share to Twitter, right in the game. It’ll let you edit the videos, add overlay text to the screenshots, and send it off to the social network.

The overlay also adds new features to the Xbox Social widget. You can text and voice chat your friends, watch their Mixer streams, and see what they’re playing. You get the same friends list and communication features on the Xbox One as well as within the Xbox App on Window 10, iOS, and Android. You also now have customization options that will let you show, hide, and pin specific widgets. Microsoft said they made the changes based on user feedback. To access the Game Bar, just press the Windows key + G.

Source: Xbox Wire

Windows 7 users will get notifications from Microsoft about end of support

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With Microsoft pulling support for Windows 7 on January 14, 2020, the company plans to remind send out push notifications to its users warning them about this development. End of support means Windows 7 and Office 2010 users will no longer get security updates for their machines. The company wants its users to upgrade to Windows 10 PCs and Office 365. While the push notification won't mention upgrading to Windows 10, it'll remind users that support ends in January and they will be linked to microsoft.com/windows7. The link will encourage users to upgrade or buy a newer PC.

According to Matt Barlow, CVP of Windows, “Beginning next month, if you are a Windows 7 customer, you can expect to see a notification appear on your Windows 7 PC. This is a courtesy reminder that you can expect to see a handful of times in 2019.” When they say handful, we don't exactly know how many times. But it'll only stop once Windows 7 support ends in January. We don't know what the notification will look like yet but it'll be similar to the Windows 10 upgrade notifications.

Source: The Verge