{"id":318219,"date":"2019-08-30T08:51:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T06:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=318219"},"modified":"2019-08-30T08:52:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T06:52:33","slug":"microsoft-overhauls-interface-for-windows-tablets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/318219-microsoft-overhauls-interface-for-windows-tablets.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft overhauls interface for Windows tablets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has updated how the Windows 10 user interface is displayed on 2-in-1 tablets in its latest <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windowsexperience\/2019\/08\/29\/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-18970\/#a2Rjzhg2pBmkGmOP.97\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Windows 10 Insider Preview Build<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This new experience allows users entering tablet posture to stay in the familiar desktop experience without interruption,&#8221; said Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Other changes have been made to improve the experience of the interface on a touch screen:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increased spacing between Taskbar icons.<\/li>\n<li>Search box on taskbar collapsed into an icon.<\/li>\n<li>File Explorer switches to touch-optimised layout.<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">Touch keyboard auto invokes when you tap text fields.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Microsoft said that the new version is available to a limited number of Insiders while it evaluates the quality of the new interface.<\/p>\n<p>It added that when using the laptop functionality of their 2-in-1 tablet, Windows will continue to function as before, and when the keyboard is folded back or removed, the new mode should automatically trigger.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/317987-samsung-galaxy-note-10-best-contract-deals-from-vodacom-and-mtn.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Samsung Galaxy Note 10 \u2013 Best contract deals from Vodacom and MTN<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has updated how the Windows 10 user interface is displayed on 2-in-1 tablets in its latest Windows 10 Insider Preview Build.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":228945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[41674,2432,26970],"class_list":["post-318219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-2-in-1-laptop","tag-tablet","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318245,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318219\/revisions\/318245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}