14 DAY TRIAL // Work on Windows 10 Redstone 5 has already started, and Microsoft is shipping preview builds to Windows insiders enrolled in the Skip Ahead ring, with development to be accelerated once the Redstone 4 update launches next month.
Naturally, Redstone 5 would include several new features, and one of them could be a so-called Screen Clipping experience that would allow users to “draw a shape to create a screen snip.” This is what Twitter user @h0x0d discovered in recent Windows 10 preview builds for the Skip Ahead, revealing that the new feature could enable capturing left screen, right screen, and both screens.
Very little is known at this point, but this could land as an improved version of the existing Snipping Tool, which comes pre-installed in Windows 10 and allows users to quickly create a screenshot of the screen.
Snipping Tool in Windows 10
Snipping Tool offers several options and supports full-screen capture, a free-form snip, and a rectangular user-defined area. A delay mode is also provided, and so are some extra tools highlight or write on a screenshot that you’ve just made.
As compared to third-party tools, Snipping Tool is obviously missing a lot of features, and one of the most important is advanced hotkey support. Additionally, there’s no auto-saving support, though the app packs options to email the screenshot as an attachment to a contact.
By the looks of things, what Microsoft plans to do is bring the screen clipping experience in line with Windows 10, and since multi-monitor configurations are already becoming very widespread, it makes sense for the company to look into this direction with its app.
Windows 10 Redstone 5 is projected to launch in the fall and a lot could change about the feature lineup, though more information on these improvements is expected to land in the coming weeks when new builds are released to Windows insiders.