If you’ve ever felt somewhat responsible for blinging out your PC with a Christmas tree’s price of RGB lighting, don’t. Microsoft believes in RGB sufficient that it’s bringing the expertise to Windows with an upcoming Dynamic Lighting function. (Perhaps, they even heard our complaints!)

Microsoft unveiled a seize bag of latest, upcoming options for Windows 11 at Microsoft Build, together with adjustments to the Taskbar and alterations to how Windows widgets work. But one of many weirdest needs to be the addition of Dynamic Lighting controls, that are normally managed by specialised utilities that ship along with your PC or peripherals.

“Lighted accessories have been on the rise and can add energy and emotion to your PC experience,” in response to a blog post by Microsoft chief product officer Panos Panay. “Today, many of these accessories rely on third-party apps and integrations that are highly fragmented. With Dynamic Lighting, Windows users will be able to effortlessly set up and customize their devices with RGB lights directly from Windows Settings. It has never been easier to help all your RGB accessories seamlessly work together for Windows apps. This month, we are making the Dynamic Lighting preview available to Windows Insiders so that developers and hardware partners alike can experiment with new integrations for RGB accessories and components.”

So far, we haven’t seen the Insider construct that Panay references, nor do we all know which channel it’ll seem in. (Windows Insider Release Preview and Beta Channels are for code that may undoubtedly arrive in your PC, whereas the Dev and Canary Channels don’t provide any ensures.)

It’s additionally unclear whether or not Windows will provide something higher than the shocking variety of RGB utilities already in the marketplace, from SignalRGB, OpenRGB, RGB Fusion, and others. New {hardware} options additionally usually necessitate a complementary function within the accompanying software program utility, and it isn’t clear that Windows will have the ability to sustain with all the things.

What we do know, nevertheless, is that apparently you gained’t have to all the time depend on a bit of third-party code to maintain the occasion pumping. Besides, can you actually recreation and not using a swirling rainbow of lights within the background?

For extra from Microsoft Build, take a look at our tales on Windows Copilot, how Microsoft will make moving to a new PC easier, and the changes coming to Microsoft Edge.