Microsoft is making more changes to Windows 11
on its new ‘principled approach’ to these app behaviors, with the incoming changes set to arrive in testing in the “coming months,” we’re told.
The first measure to be implemented is with app defaults. Windows 11 will get a new Settings deep link URI , allowing developers to take users directly to the correct place in Settings whenever any given app flags itself up as wanting to be the default. The default app is the software which is opened automatically for a specific file format, so for example, your defaultSecondly, Microsoft is changing the way that pinning apps – putting icons permanently on the Start menu or taskbar – works, by introducing a new notification. In the case that an app wants to request being pinned, this notification will pop up explaining just that, allowing the user to either click Accept or Decline.
Crucially, the software giant wants consistency with these interface tweaks, so all third-party software, and Microsoft’s own core apps for Windows 11, work the same way and abide by these rules. That’s the plan, anyway, although whether things work out this neatly, we’ll just have to wait and see.As made clear in its blog post, part of Microsoft’s aim with this tweaking of app behavior is defending against “unrequested modifications” from dodgy developers.
It’s also designed, no doubt, to reassure Windows 11 users that Microsoft is putting the past well and truly behind it regarding the firm’s own policies on default apps, which have been a source of criticism previously.Microsoft made it an unnecessarily clunky processThat nonsense was canned a year ago now, but it still lives on in the memories of some folks (likely because of the many other ways
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