Available later this year, the Fall Creators Update delivers new experiences for more than 500 million Windows 10 devices
At the Build 2017 developer conference in Seattle, Microsoft Corp. shared the first details of the next major update to Windows, the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. Available later this year, the Fall Creators Update delivers new experiences for more than 500 million Windows 10 devices: a new design system; creative experiences that will move with you across Windows, iOS, and Android; new apps coming to the Windows Store – including iTunes; new tools that make Windows home for all developers; and the world’s first Windows Mixed Reality motion controllers – no markers required.
“We designed Windows 10 to empower the creator in all of us,” said Terry Myerson, executive vice president, Windows Devices Group, Microsoft. “We’re excited for our customers to take advantage of the new features in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update that will empower innovative experiences; a modern, unified design for cross-device experiences; and an easier path for developers to create for the future of computing.”
Introducing a new design system for the next wave of creativity across Windows devices
Microsoft Fluent Design System will deliver intuitive, harmonious, responsive and inclusive cross-device experiences and interactions. For developers, Fluent Design is built to help people create more expressive and engaging apps that work across a wide range of device and input diversity.
Windows experiences move with you across Windows, iOS, and Android
The Microsoft Graph is an intelligent fabric that helps connect dots between people, conversations, projects, and content within the Microsoft Cloud – ensuring experiences flow seamlessly between Windows, iOS, and Android devices. Key features helping to bring this to life include:
- Timeline allows users to jump back in time with a visual timeline that displays what a user was doing previously and easily hop back into files, apps and websites as if it was real time.
- With Cortana, you can Pick Up Where You Left Off across Windows, iOS and Android devices.
- Clipboard is a fast, easy way to copy and paste just about anything between connected devices by allowing to copying from the desktop and pasting on a phone.
- OneDrive Files on Demand allows access to all files in the cloud without having to download them and use storage space on a specific device.
Windows Story Remix: A new way to transform your photos and videos
Built on .NET and distributed through the Windows Store as a Universal Windows Application, Windows Story Remix uses AI and deep learning to organize and transform photos and videos into stories. It will use the Microsoft Graph to connect users across devices. Story Remix brings memories, photos and videos together to create stories with a soundtrack, theme, and cinematic transitions. Users can also create mixed reality by adding 3D objects to your photos and videos to tell stories in a whole new way, or turn photos and videos into a canvas, drawing on them with Windows Ink.
The Windows Store Brings Full UWP Support for Windows, iOS, and Android — and welcomes iTunes
The Windows Store is adding additional popular applications later this year:
- iTunes is coming to the Windows Store by the end of this year. Windows users will get the complete iTunes experience, including Apple Music and the iTunes Store, as well as support for iPhone and other Apple devices on any Windows 10 or Windows 10 S PC.
- AutoDesk introduced their UWP SketchBook last summer it became their fastest growing new platform introduction with an average of 35% sales growth every month throughout 2017. Autodesk SketchBook, the de facto application for painting and drawing, was built from the ground up as a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app leveraging the pen and touch capability of Windows 10. Autodesk will continue to use UWP to extend their Windows Store offerings to include support for Windows Mixed Reality in Autodesk Stingray, a 3D game engine and real-time rendering software.
- SAP will bring SAP Digital Boardroom to the Windows Store this month. SAP Digital Boardroom is one of the most popular solutions from SAP. It is a next-generation board portal which leverages data from lines of business applications to provide a single source of truth for executives to steer the business in real time. The app was submitted to the Windows Store as a Progressive Web App. This allows SAP to reuse their web content and investments to target multiple platforms, while at the same time take advantage of deeper integration with Windows 10.
