News, Reviews & Betas which includes large community peer support In our recap for the last week of 2021, we walk you through all the important stuff that happened in the world of Microsoft in the past few days, with a dash of nostalgia for good measure.
It’s the end of yet another week and the start of a new year. Due to the ongoing holiday season, there hasn’t really been an influx of news in the past couple of weeks, but that doesn’t mean that nothing eventful happened in the latest news cycle. In fact, this week, we received some interesting pieces of information related to Microsoft Edge, Windows 8, and more. Find out in our digest for December 25,2021 — December 31,2021. Although we are familiar with swiping toast notifications to the right in order to dismiss them, this method could have been considerably different if an unnamed «senior Microsoft executive» had their way with Windows 8 several years ago. According to a report, the executive wanted notifications to be swiped to the left first so they would zoom off to the right similar to a slingshot when you lifted your cursor. A GIF of the proposed toast notification animation can be seen below: Fortunately, the design team was eventually able to convince the executive to drop the idea, likely on the grounds that the swipe left behavior would have been wasted on a pointless animation. Had the executive managed to successfully lobby for the swipe left animation, we would have likely seen it make its way to Windows 10 and Windows 11 too. You can read more about this here. Talking more about Windows, those using Windows 11 for photo and video editing should know that color rendering may break on some custom profiles.
