Microsoft pushes out Windows 10 preview with new mail and calendar apps

Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 Technical Preview for PCs, Build 1061. The preview includes new mail and calendar apps, and improvements to Start, Taskbar, and Action Center.
It also adds optimization of the Task Bar for tablets, Task View improvements, and the ability to create as many virtual desktops as needed.

Apps

The new email and calendar apps use a three-pane email user interface, with the ability to toggle quickly between the two. The Mail app includes customizable swipe gesture support, allowing users to swipe right or left to do things like delete, flag, move, or mark email as read or unread.

The apps also offer users some tricks that are more like Microsoft Word than email. It’s easy to insert tables, add pictures, and use bullets and color in text, Microsoft says. Both the new Mail and Calendar apps support Office 365, Exchange, Outlook.com, Gmail, IMAP, POP, and other email clients

Start and Taskbar

The Start menu and Taskbar now have a transparent look. In the Settings app under Personalization, users can adjust the color of Start, Taskbar, and Action Center as well as the transparency. The Start menu can be resized. Start and Taskbar also now employ AutoColor, which pulls in the primary colors from the desktop background.

Virtual desktops everywhere

Users can now create as many Virtual Desktops as they want. When they hit the limit s of the display, Microsoft says, a new overflow experience lets users access any one of their desktops.
Build 1061 comes just a few weeks after Microsoft launched its last Windows 10 preview for PCs on March 30. That release included Project Spartan, the company’s new browser shipping on all Windows 10 devices (smartphones, tablets, PCs, and so on).