Windows 10X's quick settings made me fall in love with Microsoft's new version of Windows

Windows 10X Mock Laptop Dark Source: Daniel Rubino/Windows Cardinal

Like many of you lot, I jumped at the chance to see our executive editor Zac Bowden go easily-on with Windows 10X. We've seen screenshots and snippets of Windows 10X and fifty-fifty had an emulator to play with, merely this latest video shows it off in 60FPS glory.

While I love the look of Windows 10X as a whole, one feature stuck out to me, its new flyout menus. Microsoft moved many of the organisation tray shortcuts into the quick actions carte du jour. Not only do these await groovy, but they amend the functionality of the quick actions menu and make it much easier to control aspects of your PC.

Bowden actually showed off the Action Center on Windows 10X almost a twelvemonth ago but seeing it in this latest video just got me excited.

Information technology'southward just gorgeous

Windows 10x Quick Actions Source: Windows Fundamental

Mayhap information technology's weird to recall an operating system is gorgeous, but information technology is what it is. Similar many people with desk jobs, I look at a screen running Windows ten all day. I also study apps and elements of Windows 10 as office of my chore, so inconsistencies and weird design choices issues me. The improved quick deportment carte on Windows 10X and the flyouts within it just look great.

They don't look like a combination of elements spanning across the greatest hits of Windows. They were built fresh, and it shows. When you apply Windows 10, it conspicuously isn't as new and fresh as an Os like iPadOS. From what we've seen from Windows 10X and so far, that gap seems to have sizably shrunk.

Not just about looks

If you jump to the 3-infinitesimal mark of the video, you'll see the new quick actions menu in, well, action. The system tray controls for some of import items have jumped into the action centre, and Microsoft added flyouts to easily control the device.

To me, this new characteristic is what Windows 10X is all virtually. It looks nifty. It fits the new pattern language Microsoft is shooting for. And nigh importantly, it actually adds something to the device. While I like that Microsoft has finally updated the book control UI, a leftover element that I believe is from Windows 8, it notwithstanding works. It just looks bad while doing it.

The updated quick actions bill of fare improves the functionality of the device. While you lot can control some elements of Windows 10 directly from the system tray, a lot of the time, clicking on things jumps you over to the Settings app. This works, but it takes actress time. Also, it doesn't feel very modern, at least not to me. When you lot take to jump through multiple menus and go to a divide app to actually perform a chore, it feels like the feature is an afterthought.

It'due south worth pointing out that Windows 10 lets you change some things directly from the system tray, such as selecting a Wi-Fi network, but the interface on Windows 10X adds more options.

A new type of Windows

Windows 10x Mock Prox Split Source: Daniel Rubino/Windows Central

I tin can honestly say I haven't been this excited virtually Windows in years. Microsoft has a vision for a modern Windows, and it appears that Windows 10X is checking the boxes. I can't wait to get my hands on information technology, and I tin can't look to run into how it develops in the future.