Microsoft gives first official look at the new design language – While

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Microsoft has released a first official glimpse released Project Neon. That is the new design language that the company uses in the Windows 10 Redstone 3 update. There were in January, a few details to the outside, but now confirms Microsoft the upcoming changes in a slide from a presentation during the Windows Developer Day.

The leaked screenshots last month being on more animations and transparency and had something away from Aero Glass. That was the design language that Microsoft for Windows Vista and Windows 7 used. Apart from those elements, introducing Project Neon is also a design element with the name Acrylyc, that a blur effect to the background, navigation bar and the app-overview of Windows. That looks, for example, in the Groove Music app as follows:

Microsoft has described his ambitions with this new update is as follows; It must "a beautiful, compelling experience within the Windows platform". The new design language is part of an attempt by Microsoft to increase consistency in all Windows platforms.

So would Neon among others, take inspiration from the applications that have been developed for the HoloLens, the augmented reality system from Microsoft. Apart from that, the design language also to other Windows platforms, including Surface products, the Xbox and the virtual reality headsets, which work together with other companies develops.

The new design language will not be launched in the upcoming Creators Update. That is there already in april, but the big makeover follows reportedly in the autumn of this year. That new update is known as the 'Redstone 3' edition, where the Creators to Update internally and Redstone 2.