SEATTLE, May 11, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Thursday 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 and 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 users 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 these:
- Timeline visually displays what a user was doing
previously, allowing users to 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 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 3-D objects to 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.
- When Autodesk introduced its Universal Windows
Platform (UWP) SketchBook last summer, it became its fastest
growing new platform introduction with an average of 35 percent
sales growth every month throughout 2017. Autodesk SketchBook, the
de facto application for painting and drawing, was built from the
ground up as a UWP app leveraging the pen and touch capability of
Windows 10. Autodesk will continue to use UWP to extend its Windows
Store offerings to include support for Windows Mixed Reality in
Autodesk Stingray, a 3-D 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 that
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 its web content and investments
to target multiple platforms, while at the same time take advantage
of deeper integration with Windows 10.
Making Windows home for all developers
Microsoft is inspired to make Windows and Visual Studio the best
home for all developers — not only for applications on Windows but
app experiences that span across all platforms and all devices.
Today several new tools for Windows developers were announced:
- .NET Standard 2.0 for UWP and XAML Standard are
both coming later this year to make web, C++, .NET or UWP
developers love to build on Windows.
- With modern code, developers can take advantage of Windows and
the Microsoft Graph, using Project Rome for UWP, Android and now
iOS.
- With the Xamarin Live Player developers can build, test and
debug their iPhone applications from a Windows PC. With it, all
users need is Visual Studio and their iPhone to get started
building native apps for iOS in minutes.
- Microsoft has simplified the install of Ubuntu by bringing it
to the Windows Store. Microsoft also announced it is working with
SUSE Linux and Fedora Linux running on the Windows Subsystem for
Linux — to bring them to the Windows Store. Now, Windows is the
only platform that can run both Windows apps and Linux apps
side-by-side.
Introducing the world's first Windows Mixed Reality motion
controllers — no markers required
Today, Cirque du Soleil announced how it is using Windows Mixed
Reality to transform the way it imagines and create shows. To
demonstrate the creative decisions it has to face, it rebuilt a
virtual version of the stage from the show Kurios, including its
famous huge mechanical hand.
The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update will also see the magic of
mixed reality brought to consumers around the world. We are working
with developers to create this new frontier in computing and want
any developer to get a Windows Mixed Reality dev kit. Due to wide
interest from the community, developers in the U.S. and
Canada can pre-order an Acer
($299 USD) or HP ($329 USD) Windows Mixed Reality Headset Developer
Edition starting today from the Microsoft Store for delivery
later this summer.
In addition, Microsoft unveiled the first Windows Mixed
Reality motion controllers with no markers required. The motion
controllers offer precise and responsive tracking of movement in
your field of view using the sensors in a Windows Mixed Reality
headset. There is no need to install hardware on the walls around
you. Our partners plan to market and sell these controllers on
retail shelves this holiday.
Acer will sell a Windows Mixed Reality headset and motion
controller bundle priced at $399 USD
this holiday season.
For more details on today's announcements at Build 2017, visit
the latest Windows Devices Group blog from Terry Myerson.
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