You get the standard affair of annotations, markups, and highlights, but you can also crop more articulately and adjust further details about the photo. After the screenshot has been taken, the new Snipping Tool allows you to edit it to your heart’s content with its richer editing features. The names are pretty self-explanatory and it’s nice that Microsoft gives you that sort of flexibility right from the get-go. The new Snipping Tool – Source: Microsoft The new options are Rectangular Snip, Freeform Snip, Windows Snip, and Fullscreen Snip. Now, pressing the set of keys brings up a snipping menu that includes multiple options for the type of Snip you want to, uhm, snip. Therefore, the Win + Shift + S shortcut is making a comeback. New Snipping Tool logo – Source: MicrosoftĪpart from the updated logo, the new Snipping Tool carries over much of the same DNA present in Snip & Sketch. Microsoft understood this and has now created and entirely new Snipping Tool for Windows 11 that merges the functionality of Snipping Tool and Snip & Sketch into one beautiful app. While it did offer several benefits over the standard Snipping Tool, most people just didn’t bother and stuck to the good ol’ tool they knew. Snipping ToolĪs you may know, Snipping Tool has an upgraded, more advanced version of itself in Windows 10, called “Snip & Sketch”. As always, you can check out the blog from Microsoft for a detailed look at the bug fixes, but let’s talk about the star of the show first, or should I say, stars of the show. Previously, it was limited to Dev Channel users only. The only other notable change in this update, apart from the various bug fixes is that Chat is now available to Insiders in the Beta Channel as well.
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In fact, Photos and Paint have already been teased in their full modern glory by Microsoft. You can expect to see other popular apps to follow suit as well. Like the rest of Windows 11, these apps will be given a fresh coat of paint thanks to Fluent Design. The apps seeing a major visual overhaul are Snipping Tool, Calculator, and Mail and Calendar.Īll three of these apps already have a modern look and feel to them in Windows 10, but Microsoft is looking to up the ante with its next OS.
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Build 22000.123 will introduce the changes to Windows 11 and Insiders in the Dev channel will be first to get the update with others to follow soon.
Microsoft is finally rolling out new designs for some of its most prolific apps on Windows 11.