Developers will use Fluent Design when creating their apps. Apple placing its trust in the developing walled garden of the Windows Store is a significant win for Microsoft.
With the next major Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, the Redmond giant is adding support for another two of the most popular Linux distributions to the operating system. It will be available later this year.
After dedicating the first day of its Build 2017 conference to cloud services, Microsoft Corp. today shifted the focus to Windows 10, unveiling a slew of new updates for the operating system this morning that will affect both consumers and developers. Timeline is like a newsfeed of what you have been working on across devices.
The refresh is needed because the education-centric 10 S only runs software from within the Windows Store, and apps from Apple or Google are not supported on the new system.
The big news here was more hardware - namely handheld motion controllers to work with Windows mixed reality for the first time.
This Guy Created a Cortana Hologram in His Own Home
This makes the Microsoft Invoke speaker potentially more useful than either the Amazon Echo or Google Home. However, Cortana's skills can be extended beyond these as Microsoft demonstrated at the conference.
This is great news for Microsoft and iOS device owners looking into giving Windows 10 a shot.
Microsoft on Thursday unveiled a forthcoming Windows update aimed at keeping its desktop and laptop computers at the heart of lifestyles increasing reliant on smartphones. Unveiling a new creative app, Myerson said this automatically brings memories - photos and videos - together to create stories with a soundtrack, theme and cinematic transitions. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella predicts that at some point everyone is going to have an average of six devices they use regularly, and Microsoft knows majority won't be running Windows. Microsoft has introduced many new features with this update for PCs and Tablets. Cortana asks if you want to pick up where you left in your app, doc or website. With Cortana, one can pick now up where they left off across Windows, iOS and Android devices, he said. With Timeline, you can go back to an earlier snapshot of your system and restore open programs and documents. The company announced this week that iTunes, Autodesk, and SAP Digital Boardroom will be coming to the Windows Store later this year.
Right now, Live Player works by compiling the code developers write to an intermediate language (often called "byte code") and then interpreting that code within the app. Microsoft is looking at using other approaches for Live Player's functionality in the future if they provide benefits for developers, Friedman said. Clipboard syncs your clipboard content across devices over the cloud, allowing you to copy on one device and paste on another.
Bringing iTunes to the Windows Store helps improve the perception that Microsoft it is more open to working with other companies and technologies than previously.
Windows is making hand-held controllers for virtual reality. The company announced that it now offers 29 "Cognitive Services", which give developers access to tools that can recognize gestures, translate text, and customize data to recognize images, among other capabilities.
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