Microsoft all but pulled out of the mobile hardware business earlier in the year. However, the company reassured OEMs that it will continue to fully support Windows 10 Mobile. That promise has been met and coming updates for the platform promise interesting changes. Specifically improved WiFi settings and a new redesigned Action Center.
Windows Insider, Core, took to Twitter over the weekend to show images of the coming updates. In terms of the WiFi settings menu, Windows 10 Mobile needs the change. At the moment, the platform has a mundane reskinned version of Windows Phone 8.1 WiFi settings.
The upcoming changes will bring the settings more in sync with the general look of Windows 10 Mobile. Moreover, it will look more like the WiFi settings on the PC version of Windows 10. Microsoft will be making the menu more responsive and quicker.
It's time to say bye to the reskinned WP8.1 Wi-Fi page that W10M uses. Say Hi to the same one you know from your PC. pic.twitter.com/nO7K7xcBl0
— Albacore (@thebookisclosed) September 10, 2016
Windows 10 Mobile users will have to wait a while to see this update, though. At the moment it is coming to a Redstone (rs2) preview build soon. If you are not familiar with rs2, it is a follow-up to the Anniversary Update. Microsoft is currently rolling out rs2 previews to Windows Insiders ahead of its full launch in 2017.
Cross-Architecture Design
Another tweet discusses what Microsoft has been planning for some time. Core points out that the company is “working on multiple cross-architecture subsystems”. This is a good start because Microsoft carried plenty of Windows Phone 8.1 pages to Windows 10 Mobile. Hopefully, the company will start changing that with Redstone 2.
The Action Center fits into this. Microsoft is also updating the UI and performance of the page. This includes bringing Windows 10 Mobile transitions and landscape mode abilities.
What is probably the best part of this upcoming release is that it shows Microsoft is still pushing the platform. Some eyebrow were raised when the Anniversary Update came to mobile later than other form factors. However, the company is keeping its promise to support the platform.
I’m afraid that for me at least Microsoft has shat the bed too many times. I have always been a Microsoft fan but there’s only so much I can take. They talk too much and do too little. Microsoft used to run the software world, now it seems they have handed the company over to circus monkeys. My phone freezes and lags incessantly. It reboots on It’s own three to four times a week. I have to restart it nearly every time I switch Bluetooth on or off. They no longer fix software, they throw the baby out with the wash. Start over and write some more buggy software. Literally no popular new apps come to Windows Phone. If we get a popular app It’s years after our friends on Android and iOS have moved on to the next big thing. To piss on our wounds, they actually try to tell us that we don’t need it on Windows Phone. I was a Zune guy, Microsoft you’ve lost me.