14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft is working on a new Action Center for Windows Core OS, according to a recent discovery.
While specifics aren’t available right now, the Redmond-based software giant is focusing rather aggressively on Windows Core OS, so an update Action Center certainly aligns with these efforts.
Windows Core OS, which serves as a modular platform for the core experience in Windows, could serve as a starting point for new projects, including Microsoft’s very own dual-screen device expected sometime later this year or in 2020.
And while Microsoft has until now remained more or less tight-lipped on such projects, the LinkedIn profile of a Microsoft software engineer discovered by WL seems to reveal that one of the features the company is working on is a refined Action Center for WCOS.
Refined Action Center
According to his listing, the engineer is part of the Windows Shell team and is working on three projects to develop Action Center features for Windows 10, the Windows Core OS variation of Action Center, and create and maintain the notification pipeline on various Windows platforms.
While the same Action Center could at some point make its way to full Windows 10 as well, we recently came across evidence that the company is also working on a visual overhaul of this feature.
One of the short-term plans on the Windows front is to embrace rounded corners instead of sharp ones, and screenshots that leaked not a long time ago revealed the Action Center could thus get a facelift as part of this transition. The refined Action Center could make its way to Windows with the 20H1 update in the spring of 2020.
And as with everything new to Windows, this Action Center could receive the go-ahead in an Insider build in the coming months when Microsoft gets it ready for public testers.