Live Tiles have been a key part of Windows for many years, but their functionality has little developed. That could soon change, however – as Microsoft will, at its Build 2016 developer conference next week, reveal how Live Tiles are set to improve with a couple of “highly-requested surprises”.
This revelation has emerged with Microsoft’s publication of the complete list of keynotes and sessions that will make up the conference. The whole event should excite anyone eager to learn more about what the Redmond corporation is planning, but our attention is drawn to the description for one particular session, titled “What’s New for Tiles and Toast Notifications”…
Scheduled for Friday, April 1, the description is wrapped up with the tantalizing sentence: “Live Tiles are evolving with two highly-requested surprises that you won’t want to miss.” We can only speculate what these “surprises”, presumably planned for both the PC and mobile versions of Windows 10, could be – but there is at least one big clue…
Neowin reports that Microsoft is known to have been developing “exploding Live Tiles”, where – similarly to 3D Touch on the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus – a user would tap a tile’s corner to bring up a subset of tiles enabling speedier access to an app’s common functions. Could Microsoft be readying this for a formal reveal next week?