The presence of such updated tiles would offer the interface a more modern look, although it does not look as though additional functionality will be part of the mix eventually. Apart from the transparent tiles, it does not look as though there will be anything else that are new which will be part of the collaboration.
We do understand that Microsoft is not about to push out an update for the month of December, although we do expect for this update to arrive some time in January (which frankly speaking, is not too far away) as that is when the team would get back on track with the monthly releases of dashboard updates. Do you like the way the new potential transparent tiles look like, or do you prefer everything before this upcoming change?