Another major week of software updates, except this week it comes from Windows. They just dropped the Windows 10 Spring Creators update (1803) for most users to upgrade. While the update isn't available for employee desktops or campus computers, you are now able to get it on your personal computers. One of the biggest feature updates is the new timeline feature(as shown above) which lets you browse through your history of application usage for the sake of quickly pulling up your past word documents, your third favourite video game, or, in my case, that one programming project... all without having to rummage through your files. Other major updates include major security updates, back-end software improvements, and a new heavy emphasis on Microsoft's fluent design (which you can learn more about here). Overall, it brings a major new aesthetic to windows but only in the subtlest of ways. For instance, they now added a quick link to images and documents in the Start window which have this neat glow to them when you mouse over them (as shown below):
This update is also pokes it's head out as you use the interface more and more often. Tabs in most Windows application like settings, mail etc. have more prominent acrylic components as shown below:
As you can see, it has this slight translucent theme to it. Outside of visual updates, there are other cool features as well that include being able to quickly share documents between computers, the ability to quickly switch processes between your phone and computer via this new share feature that is available on the Android store, as well as a new launcher on android devices to give your phone a Windows feel to it (for all the big Windows fans out there such as myself). While it may not be the biggest revolution in OS updates, it definitely brings a lot of smaller updates that are meant to improve the user experience in an incremental fashion, a manner that seems to be dominating the software market as of late.
