Windows 10: Microsoft app gets a brand new UI ahead of Windows 10 ‘Sun Valley’ refresh

Microsoft’s strategy for Windows 10 default apps has been a disaster for years and some apps like Photos and Store are plagued with various issues, but lately, the company has been working to fix that.

According to reliable sources, Microsoft is working on new UI features for Windows 10’s default apps, such as Microsoft Photos and Mail & Calendar. Apparently, Microsoft’s Alarms & Clock is the first app to receive Sun Valley-related UI improvements in the production channel.

The new Alarms & Clock app experience was officially announced in December but many users were a bit disappointed after finding out that the new UI wouldn’t be available to all right away.



It appears that the initial deployment of the new app has been completed, meaning it’s available now for all users. With version 10.2101.28.0 of the app, Microsoft is now pushing the new interface to everyone.



As you can see in the above screenshot, Microsoft’s in-box Alarm Clock app new UI is based on WinUI and Sun Valley update mockup we’ve seen last year.



For some reasons, the new Alarms app is now using a combination of rounded and sharp corners, but it’s likely that the consistency issues will be addressed before the Sun Valley refresh.

In addition to the UI changes, there’s a new “Edit” button at the bottom to help you quickly manage the alarms, timers, etc.

The “edit and create” has also been redesigned with UI improvements from the Sun Valley refresh. The menu is now more compact and it comes with new animations, rounded corners, and colours.



The light theme has been refreshed too and it uses light grey background instead of bright white.

To get the update, you need to visit the Microsoft Store and check for updates. If you’re still not seeing the new design on your devices, you may also need to apply the latest cumulative update. Once that’s done, check for updates again or wait another week.

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A job listing, which was spotted by us in January, confirmed that Microsoft is working on “best-in-class” apps for Windows 10 to replace poorly-designed default apps.

So far, only the Alarms & Clock app has received Sun Valley UI refresh, but it’s possible that other apps will also get the same treatment over the coming months.

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What are the odds of "Sun Valley" gaining a brand name change?

+We have been stuck with the "Windows 10" moniker for the past 6 years, and now, in 2021, the platform is about to get a major UI revamp. With rounded corners for the entire GUI on the horizon, as well as other changes which we don't know about yet (possibly internal structural changes too)...


Microsoft is calling this project "Windows 10++" and "Sun Valley".

What are the chances they are finally going to name the OS something else, in light of the huge amount of visible changes?

Maybe "Windows 10.1", "Windows 11" or heck, even "Windows Sun Valley".

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In fact that is why I didn't put a OS version number in my system specs, I don't know what the final product will end up being called.

 

Alarms and Clock app gets updated UI for Windows 10 Insiders

Alarms & Clocks version 10.2012 introduces a major revamp to its UI. This may be the first Sun Valley stuff that chips to Windows Insiders in the Dev channel.

For about a month or two we know that Microsoft is working on a major design update codenamed Sun Valley that will bring many UIs and apps within Windows in line with each other (although Mail and Calendar are for some reason excluded from that), and it looks like Alarms & Clock is the first test subject.

Lets go over each tool in Alarms & Clock to see whats new.


Read more: Alarms & Clock 10.2012: A Closer Look | by Studio 384 | ChangeWindows | Dec, 2020 | Medium

 

Sun and Microsoft Expand Investment in Interoperability With New Center in Redmond

Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. today announced two new milestones in their ongoing alliance: the official opening of the Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center on Microsoft’s Redmond campus for optimizing Microsoft applications on Sun Fire x64 server systems storage, and the availability of the Sun Infrastructure Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. More information on the Sun Infrastructure Solutions for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is available here.


“Our customers and partners want to maximize their business efficiency, and we are helping them do that by opening the new Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center,” said Bob Kelly, corporate vice president of infrastructure server marketing at Microsoft. “The center will provide a setting for hands-on testing and tuning of Sun/Microsoft solutions, and will help our joint customers achieve outstanding performance results for their standardized and homegrown solutions. It is consistent with our recently announced interoperability principles, which guide steps that we are taking to enhance interoperability in the marketplace for the benefit of customers."

“The new Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center will help provide our joint customers with a testbed for running key Microsoft applications on Sun’s x64 servers and help ensure more seamless integration between the technologies,” said Lisa Sieker, vice president of Systems Marketing, Sun Microsystems. “Additionally, with the new Infrastructure Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Sun’s expertise in x64 servers, storage and 64-bit database architectures will enable customers to significantly reduce e-mail TCO and ease the transition to the new 64-bit product.”

Objectives of the Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center will include optimization of Microsoft applications on Sun x64 systems and storage, and promotion of full interoperability in application areas such as virtualization, Java technology, systems management and identity. In addition, the center will collaborate with authorized Sun Solution Centers to support customers in running their own proof-of-concept testing. Customers can minimize their risk and shorten time to deployment by simulating their own environment, with access to top architects from both Sun and Microsoft.

The Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center serves as a working lab for tuning, benchmarking and interoperability solutions creation. It will be designed to include the following:

• A demonstration and testing area for Windows on Sun x64 systems and storage
• A lab space for customer proofs-of-concept focused on Windows Server 2008 on Sun x64 systems and storage
• The ability to certify Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) and Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE), including Sun’s Java Runtime Environment (JRE) software for and with Microsoft operating environments and applications
• Joint work to help enable cross-platform server virtualization, including Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Sun xVM
• Cross-company collaboration to allow Sun Ray thin client software to provide a first-rate virtual desktop for the Windows environment and support Windows technologies

One of the first results of the recently increased collaboration is the availability of the Sun Infrastructure Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. This solution will help enable enterprise customers to better manage e-mail growth and realize the benefits of Exchange Server 2007. Pre-tested end-to-date system and storage configurations allow customers to easily migrate to Exchange Server 2007 — achieving up to 85 percent savings in rack space, power and cooling, and reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) for e-mail by up to 70 percent over three years.

The Interoperability Center expands Sun’s three-year presence on the Microsoft main campus, focused on testing customer scenarios on Sun’s systems in the Microsoft Enterprise Engineering Center. Microsoft and Sun have collaborated in a number of interoperability areas including Web services, identity management, thin clients, systems management and Windows Server engineering.

The two companies have also created a basis for tighter interoperability between Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE), the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 and Windows Communication Foundation in Sun’s Web services interoperability technologies (Project Tango). Corporations can also evaluate the Sun Fire X4600 server with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 through Sun’s Try and Buy program: http://www.sun.com/tryandbuy/specialdetail.jsp?spid=f17eb968-ce40-48c5-9f63-5deb8e339216. Sun became a Windows Server OEM in September 2007 and is also a founding member of the Microsoft Interop Vendor Alliance and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

Source: Microsoft