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The Files App, a popular file manager for Windows, has been updated to version 2.5. The latest release makes the app prettier thanks to Acrylic backgrounds, adds Git integration, and more.

Taras Buria · Jun 13, 2023 · Hot! with 13 comments

If you are a fan of the Mica effect on Windows 11 and wondered if you could some app based on that inside Windows 10, then such an app is available now for download on Microsoft Store.

Sayan Sen · Feb 17, 2023 with 3 comments

Here is a tiny open-source app for making the legacy context menus in Windows 10 and 11 a little fancier. TranslucentFlyouts is here with the option to add extra Acrylic to Microsoft's systems.

Taras Buria · Dec 5, 2022 · Hot! with 7 comments

Windows 11 upcoming features leak does not seem to end. Today we have some more which reveals new App folders in the Start menu, Taskbar changes, new Snap Bar, Quick Settings for Tablet mode.

Sayan Sen · Feb 11, 2022 · Hot! with 37 comments

Microsoft's Your Phone app for the PC is being updated for 50% of users in the Windows Insider Program. The app's navigation bar now displays your phone's background image with a bit of acrylic blur.

Abhay V · Jan 31, 2020 · Hot! with 17 comments

Following the removal of Fluent Design from Microsoft Messaging a few days ago, the app has now been updated to reincorporate elements that were removed, apparently on a much larger scale.

Hamza Jawad · Feb 8, 2018 · Hot! with 22 comments

The latest Windows 10 Insider Preview Build includes elements of the Fluent Design System for Microsoft Messaging. This improvement was not listed in the official changelog for build 17074.

Hamza Jawad · Jan 14, 2018 · Hot! with 61 comments

Microsoft has officially announced its new visual design language, formerly known by its codename 'Project NEON'. Microsoft's Kevin Gallo described the Fluent Design System as "an evolution of Metro".

Andy Weir · May 11, 2017 · Hot! with 50 comments

Microsoft Acrylic professional design tool that brings together the richness of pixel-based painting and the flexibility of editable vector graphics for a more fluid and flexible creative workflow. With Acrylic you can create sophisticated designs...

· Aug 17, 2005 with -1 comments

Microsoft has launched a public beta for a new piece of software, code named 'Acrylic'. Acrylic is a design tool that will feel reasonably similar to anyone familiar with Adobe Photoshop. Acrylic offers the more...

· Jun 9, 2005 · Hot! with -1 comments

Heres a nice little review for y'all. "With the spread in overclocking and cooling madness, people have mounted their fans so as to suck air from outside the case itself. Of course, having...

· Nov 29, 2002 with -1 comments

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