

Like live tiles in Start, Cortana has long been frustrating and mostly pointless in Windows 10.

Unlike the Dark theme, which still looks like it was cobbled-together by unprofessionals. I thought the Light theme was a bit too light when I saw it in images, but it’s just great looking in real use. But more substantively, the new Light theme is dramatically more professional-looking and-spoiler alert-it also happens to hint at the new UI coming in Microsoft’s future Chrome OS competitors. It’s much lighter than before, an even comes with a lighter new wallpaper. But the Light theme has been dramatically overhauled in this release. But you still access the system themes-not the old-school themes-in the same place in Settings: Personalization > Colors.Īs with the previous few Windows 10 releases, Windows 10 19H1 includes both Light and Dark, um, themes. In Windows 10 19H1, the term app mode appears to be going away. Microsoft has long confused matters with its Windows 10 system themes, which, to date, have actually been called app modes because the word “theme” was used earlier to describe bundles of wallpaper images, sounds, mouse cursors, and color schemes.
