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The user interface is always either dark or light.Old question but I ran into the same situation today. Dynamic desktop only changes the background image, not the user interface. Is no one going to mention this? Is Paul not going to kick and scream about how the oversized buttons on the toolbar is clearly designed for touch and is 'kiddie' or something? Oh wait, this is Microsoft's competitor, so there's no need to nitpick :)'Dynamic Desktop that changes the color cast of the background image and user interface to match the time of day'No it doesn't. Same with YouTube.The App Store design is atrocious. Microsoft has always plunged their UI into blackness which looks *too* dark on screens with deep blacks. But even in this, we can see that the UI itself doesn't change, they just added dark mode.I like this implementation of dark mode better, I believe Twitter was the first to use dark blue hues for their dark mode. Apple just evolves it in little steps like these, which I assume is how they maintain their level of polish.

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And are the same types of updates that Microsoft is adding, at least so far, to Windows 10 Redstone 5, which should ship around the same time as Mojave. But these productivity-focused features are very much in-line with what I like to see in a desktop update. And there is a lot more going on in macOS Mojave, of course.

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But then I enjoyed using it in 2001 in Windows XP.Īpple may have slowed the pace of Mac hardware releases, but this macOS update suggests that they’re on the right path from a software perspective. If you click this thumbnail, it opens in a new Finder-based image editing mode which looks pretty feature-rich.Īnd speaking of the Finder, that new Gallery View is pleasant enough. MacOS Mojave has picked up an iOS-like screenshot feature in which a thumbnail of each shot appears before it is saved to the desktop. It’s like a blast from the Windows Vista past.

But this feature looks useful, and it allows you to automatically group images, documents, spreadsheets, PDFs, and other file types in virtual folder-like stacks automatically or by design. I haven’t really played with Stacks yet: My important documents and data files are stored in OneDrive and I don’t want to mess with that. The same issue Microsoft faces in Windows 10. And Apple still isn’t overcoming the App Store’s biggest issue, which is a dearth of high-quality apps. I’ve had tons of connection errors so far, but it’s just an early beta. The new Mac App Store is pleasant-looking enough, I guess, and it somewhat resembles the iOS App Store, but with a navigation pane instead of a bottom-mounted toolbar. (Windows 10, like the Mac, supports a Night Light feature that tones down the blue light from the display to help your eyes at night. It gets darker as it gets darker in the real world, and lighter when it gets light.

For example, you can configure an option called Dynamic Desktop that changes the color cast of the background image and user interface to match the time of day. The Mac’s Dark Mode is also far more sophisticated than Windows 10’s Dark app mode. (Edge even calls this a “theme” whereas that word means something else to Windows. And some apps, like Microsoft Edge, need to be configured to be dark independently, which is monotonous for those who like to switch back and forth.

In Windows 10 today, for example, File Explorer and other desktop applications don’t go dark. Though only in an early beta now, the Mac’s new Dark Mode is already more consistently applied across the system, compared to Windows. It’s elegant, and instead of sharp blacks, as in Windows, it simply features dark, more pleasant hues. It’s immediately obvious that Apple’s new Dark Mode looks better than the Dark app mode that is available in Windows 10.

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Plus some features that seem to be lifted straight out of Windows’ past, like the Finder Gallery View (from Windows XP) and Stacks (from Windows Vista).Īnd I have to say, I like what I see here. But this release seems to align even more closely to Microsoft’s efforts, as macOS Mojave features a revamped App Store and a dark user interface mode, just like Windows 10.

Most obviously, I’m curious to compare how Apple is updating its own legacy flagship platform so I can compare that to what Microsoft is doing with Windows 10.

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