New feature coming with the next Windows 10 version

May 11, 2017 16:15 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft has just announced a new Windows 10 feature called Windows Timeline which allows users to return to a moment of the day when specific apps and tools were running.

This means that users can restore their systems to any given moment and have their desktop with the apps they were running at that moment brought back on the screen.

The feature works across devices, and it uses the power of cloud, with Joe Belfiore showing at Build how fast the whole thing is on different Windows 10 laptops.

The demo was made on an iPhone, and with Cortana and AI based on the cloud, the assistant can pick up from where the user left off.

“Cortana is timeline aware on the iPhone serving up what the user was doing,” Belfiore explained. “You can click a news reader link, and the news reader resumes from where it left off.”

If the app is not installed on the phone, these apps can register with the Microsoft Graph and if the app is available, users can be prompted to install them. Belfiore hasn’t said what happens if the app is not available, but there’s a good chance that some alternatives would be provided that work across multiple platforms.

Windows Timeline will become available with the Windows 10 Redstone 3 in the fall, but insiders should get it shortly with the next preview builds.