Microsoft, making good on its promise to regularly push out new versions of Windows 10 Technical Preview, has released build 9879 — and there’s a surprising number of changes under the hood. Most notably, Windows 10 is now starting to look like a new (or at least different) operating system — but there’s also some nice tweaks, such as the ability to remove the new Search and Task View buttons from the taskbar, and an early look at the new “Continuum” Start menu. Just like the previous update to Windows 10 Technical Preview, build 9879 installed without a hitch: You just head along to PC Settings, download a new Preview build, and then it takes about 10 minutes to install. (In my case, I actually forgot I’d downloaded the new build until I turned my PC on one morning and had to sit through the “setting up your PC” stuff.)
Visually, there are quite a few changes in build 9879, most of which are just a continuation towards a “flat” aesthetic. Most notably, the Windows folder icon has changed! Both the closed and open folder icons have been made very flat, and slightly more angular. This tallies with the flattened horizontal folder icon that you see on the Windows 10 taskbar (which has an odd blue “n” emblazoned on it that I still haven’t worked out).
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