These are the 5 major features coming to the new Windows 10 Creator’s update

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Farooq Gessa Mousal
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Windows 10 launch

Windows 10 users will have some reasons to smile, as today Microsoft is releasing a new test version of Windows 10, build number 16215, and as there are several changes in this new version. For  If you’re a Windows Insider on the Fast Ring then it’s available immediately, for everyone else all of the new features will arrive in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update later this year.

New Action Center

There will be a redesign of the notification center (Action Center),with separate sections for apps. It certainly looks a lot better, and groups notifications together in a more coherent way from devices, apps, and elsewhere.

Pin website on task bar

You’ll now be able to pin your favorite websites to the taskbar in this latest Windows 10 update. Of course, once they’re pinned they’ll open in Microsoft’s Edge browser, but the pinned sites feature is returning after feedback from Windows 10 users.

Cortana Improvements

There are some changes in the animations for new tabs in Edge, making things a little faster. But in a bigger note, Cortana will also see some changes, with the ability for the digital assistant to prompt for reminders by scanning images (with your permission) for things like events.

Windows 10 stylus support

Perhaps the biggest changes Microsoft is focusing on are with Windows 10 stylus support. The handwriting panel has been overhauled with more gestures, better editing, emoji, and automatic handwriting detection. As you write with a pen words are automatically converted to text, and words will shift along so you can simply keep writing.

Emoji comes to emails and social media messages

It is now easy for one to add emoji into emails or social media messages. A new winkey + period / semicolon keyboard shortcut will trigger a new emoji panel where you can pick the most appropriate emoji for your messages. The company will also be adding a new touch keyboard for Windows 10 desktop and tablet users, with prediction, emoji suggestions, one-handed input, and shape writing with your fingers or a stylus.

And the rest…

There’s a lot of other minor changes and fixes listed in Microsoft’s huge blog post, and all will be welcomed by regular Windows 10 users. This is one of the bigger feature additions to Windows 10 preview builds for a few months now as Microsoft heads towards a September release for the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.