Microsoft launches a new preview of Windows 10 with an acrylic logon screen

Microsoft today released a new preview of Windows 10 for PCs with Acrylic in the login screen. This construction comes from branch 19H1, which, as its name indicates, will arrive in the first half of next year. Microsoft is finalizing the RS5 branch, which represents the Windows 10 update that the company plans to release in October.

Windows 10 is developed as a service, which means that it regularly receives new features. Microsoft has released five major updates to date: November Update, Birthday Update, Creator Update, Autumn Designer Update, and Update. April 2018.

Microsoft Fluent Design has spread to the Windows login screen. The acrylic is now visible on the background of the login screen, an effect that Microsoft has given a general description: "The translucent texture of this transient surface helps you focus on the connection task by moving the actuatable controls upwards. the visual hierarchy while maintaining their accessibility. "

Right.

Separately, Microsoft has renamed "Microsoft Apps" as "Your Phone." This application aims to integrate the Android application into the application Your phone, which allows you to directly access the contents of your phone (text messages, photos and notifications). your Windows 10 PC.

Bug fixes and known issues

This desktop version includes the following bugfixes and enhancements (many will be familiar with the following updates on the RS5 branch):

• Issue resolved: The task manager could not be resized on the previous flight.
• Fixed a problem causing a blocking of settings when browsing accounts> Connecting to the previous flight.
• Fixed a problem causing a reduction in the reliability of the action center during recent flights.
• Issue resolved: If you opened one of the drop-down menus on the taskbar (such as network or volume) and then tried to open another one quickly, it would not work.
• Fixed a problem for people with multiple monitors where, if the Open or Save dialog box was moved between monitors, some items might become unexpected.
• Fixed a problem that caused some applications to crash when setting focus on the search field embedded in the application.
• Fixed a problem causing some games, like League of Legends, that did not launch / connect properly on recent flights.
• Issue resolved: By clicking on web links in PWAs such as Twitter, the browser was not open.
• Fixed a problem that caused some PWA to render incorrectly after suspending the application and then resuming it.
• Fixed a problem that caused multiline text pasting on certain Web sites with the help of Microsoft Edge to add unexpected blank lines between each line.
• Fixed a crash during recent flights when using the ink pen in the Microsoft Edge Web Notes.
• Fixed a Task Manager crash during recent flights.
• Fixed a problem causing settings to crash for insiders with multiple monitors when editing various options under Display Settings in Recent Flight.
• Fixed a crash by clicking the Check link in the Account Settings page for recent flights.
• Added a new group policy to prevent the use of security issues for local accounts. This can be found under Computer Configuration> Administrative Templates> Windows Components> User Interface with Login Information.
• Issue resolved: The contents of the Applications and Features page were not loaded until the application list was ready, which resulted in the blank page being displayed for a certain period of time. time.
• Fixed a problem due to which the list of built-in sentence parameters for the Pinyin IME was empty.
• Fixed a problem in Narrator where the activation of Microsoft Edge history items did not work in Scan mode.
• Improvements in Narrator selection when advancing in Microsoft Edge.
• Fixed a problem that caused Narrator to incorrectly report certain combo boxes as "combo box" instead of "combo box".

Today's update blew out the Windows 10 version number of the 19H1 branch of 18234 (made available to testers on September 6) to version 18237.

This release has three known issues:

• Narrator sometimes does not read in the Settings application when browsing using the Tab keys and the arrow keys. Try to temporarily switch to Narrator Scan mode. And when you turn off the scan mode again, Narrator now reads when you navigate using the Tab key and arrows. You can also restart Narrator to work around this problem.
• You may notice that the background of the notifications and the Action Center lose color and become transparent (with an acrylic effect).
• If you install one of the recent versions from the fast ring and go to the slow ring, the optional content such as developer mode activation will fail. You will have to stay in the quick ring to add / install / activate the optional content. Indeed, optional content will only be installed on approved versions for specific rings.

As always, do not install this on your production machine.