Microsoft announces the next wave of creativity with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

Microsoft announces the next wave of creativity with 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

SEATTLE, Wash. — May
11, 2017 — Today 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.

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.
Microsoft has simplified the install of Ubuntu by
bringing it to the Windows Store. Microsoft also announced they are
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 they’re using Windows Mixed Reality to transform the way they imagine
and create shows. In order to demonstrate the creative decisions they have to
face, they 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 ($299USD) or HP
($329USD) Windows Mixed Reality Headset Developer Edition starting
today from the Microsoft Store for delivery later this summer.

In addition, Microsoft
unveiled the world’s 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. Our device
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 $399USD
this holiday season.

For more detail on
today’s announcements at Build 2017, please visit the latest Windows Devices
Group blog from Terry Myerson.

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