14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft revealed a bunch of new features coming in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update earlier this year at build, but it turns out that at least one of them won’t be ready in time for the September release.
Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore revealed on Twitter that Timeline, a feature which allows Windows, Android, and iOS users to pick up from where they left off on different devices and to resume an activity from an earlier snapshot, would only be included in preview builds after the company ships the Fall Creators Update. This means that insiders would get it when Microsoft starts work for the next Windows 10 update coming after Redstone 3 this fall.
“Timeline won’t be ready in the Fall Creators Update. We’re planning for it to be in early insider builds shortly after FCU is out,” Joe Belfiore explained, before going on to explain that “we described [the] set of features that would come with FCU… and I thought we’d communicated uncertainty.”
“Not a delay”
Belfiore explains that holding back the feature for an upcoming Windows 10 release isn’t necessarily a delay because “it just didn’t make the Fall release. At Build we tried to roughly show the work in order of timely-ness,” he tweeted.
The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update is projected to be ready in September, and official Microsoft documentation spotted recently revealed that it’s very likely to land as version 1709.
According to Microsoft’s release schedule, the company would ship two different Windows 10 updates every year, one in March and another one in September. This means Timeline has bigger chances to see daylight in the spring of 2018, though it all depends on how work on this feature advances.
This isn’t the first time when Microsoft delays a Windows 10 feature, as the company previously wanted to ship People with the Creators Update this year. Microsoft eventually decided to hold back this feature a little longer, so now People is being tested with help from insiders as we speak as part of the Windows Insider program and scheduled to launch in September with the Fall Creators Update.
