14 DAY TRIAL // No Windows 10 build was released this week, as the Windows team took some days off to spend Thanksgiving with their families, but work on the Creators Update will restart next week, and the company is obviously expected to provide new updates to insiders.
One of the coming builds will include sharing improvements, according to Peter Skillman, who is the General Manager of Core UX for Windows, as Microsoft focused specifically on improving this side of the operating system (which has more or less been neglected, by the way).
Details on how exactly sharing would be improved in future builds are not yet available, but Microsoft hasn’t spent too much time focusing on this feature, and everything seems to be kind of broken at the moment. In Windows 8, sharing was part of the Charms bar, and users could access it easily, but with Windows 10 and the introduction of universal apps, this feature has been left behind.
Of course, the upcoming insider builds would be mostly supposed to help Microsoft test new sharing functionality before a public release in the Creators Update, which is due in early 2017.
The Fast Ring getting it first
It goes without saying that the next builds will be released exclusively to the Fast Ring, as Microsoft has only recently updated the Slow Ring with a new build, so it’ll take a while until a new one is shipped for users enrolled in this channel.
Windows 10 Creators Update is expected to launch in March 2017, as people with knowledge of the matter indicated that it could be version 1703, which as per Microsoft’s version naming strategy, represents the year and the month - the third month of the year 2017.
This information is not yet confirmed, but Microsoft itself said that the Creators Update would go live in early 2017, so expect more substantial improvements to be included in the upcoming insider builds.
@BucksterMcgee @bjorndori @DennisBednarz @NotCassim @zacbowden On it! Share improvements coming to WIP builds soon. — peter skillman (@peterskillman) November 25, 2016