What’s New in Windows 1. Fall Creators Update, Arriving September 2. Windows 1. 0’s Fall Creators Update, codenamed Redstone 3, will be released in September 2.

Microsoft has revealed the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, its latest big upgrade with better desktop and mobile integration, VR, and more. Announced at BUILD 2017.

Day 2 of Build 2017 didn't disappoint when it came to announcements and even a few surprises. 9th Annual Detroit Fall Beer Festival - 2017 Eastern Market, Detroit. Friday, October 27, 2017 - 5pm to 9pm; tickets $40 in advance, $45 at gate (if available). The latest browser scam, which targets Google Chrome users, is difficult to identify, but it's still preventable.

Here are all the new features you’ll see in the latest version of Windows—and some big, splashy features Microsoft announced that never arrived. This post was originally written based on features Microsoft announced at its BUILD 2. May 1. 1. It’s been updated with with features added up to Insider Build 1. July 1. 3. There will be many more new features and small changes that make Windows better to use, just as there were in previous updates.

We’ll learn about those through the Insider Previews released between now and September, so check back with this post for more useful, smaller, geeky features. One. Drive Shows Files in the Cloud, Downloading Them on Demand. Microsoft announced “One. Drive Files on Demand”, which allows some files to be stored in the cloud and available to you without being synced on your local device.

An older version of this feature appeared in Windows 8. Dropbox and Google Drive are incorporating a similar feature, too. Interestingly enough, this works with files in the Desktop and Documents folder, so it isn’t just limited to files in the One.

2017 Pass Creek Fall Fair – September 23 – 24, 2017. FOOD, FUN, EXHIBITS, GAMES and so much more Ahh.

Drive folder. When you try to open a file that isn’t stored on your PC, Windows will download it and open it for you. This is implemented at a low level in the operating system and works with any application, even command line ones. If an app tries to access a file only stored in the cloud and causes it to download, you’ll see a notification that the app is downloading a file and you can hide the notification or cancel the download, if you like. You can also block the app from downloading files in the future.

If you do, you can manage blocked apps from Settings > Privacy > App- Requested Downloads. Fluent Design Is Windows 1. New Design Language (and Includes Inking Improvements)Microsoft has a new design language named “Fluent Design“. It uses more light, depth, motion, and transparency. It’s more related to “material” objects and incorporates “scale” more, according to Microsoft. This sounds like the final name of Project Neon, a new visual design language Microsoft has been working on, but it’s more than that. It’s a new interaction model, according to Microsoft.

You’re going to see Fluent Design show up in everything from the Windows shell interface to the included apps in Windows over time, according to Microsoft. As part of implementing Fluent Design, the Start menu (or Start screen) has been improved. It now uses a new acrylic design if you have transparency enabled. You can also resize horizontally and diagonally, and it’s easier to grab the edge of the frame to resize.

The transition into the Tablet Mode experience is now smoother, too. The Action Center has seen a substantial redesign as well. It now more cleanly separates notifications, so it’s easier to read.

It also uses the same acrylic design, which you’ll also see in notification popups. Inking and Handwriting Are Getting Better. Part of the implementing Fluent Design includes integrating better inking support into Windows, allowing you to use a pen to navigate through the entire operating system. This includes being able to more easily write- to- type with a stylus in Edge, scroll by dragging up and down with the stylus, and more quickly select text. The ability to scroll with a pen is currently only available in UWP apps, but Microsoft is working on adding it to classic desktop (Win. Microsoft referred to Edge as “the best ink- enabled browser”. You can now annotate PDFs with a pen in Edge, too (finally).

The handwriting panel available in Windows 1. When you fill the handwriting panel and lift your pen off the screen, the text you wrote will move to the left so you always have more space to write. The text you write will always appear in the panel so you can select it to change it. You can write the correct letters over the drawn word if the panel interprets your handwriting incorrectly. You can now make corrections using gestures, too. You can cross out words with a strikethrough to remove them, and use join and split gestures to add spaces or join words together. The handwriting panel offers easier access to emoji and symbols with two new buttons, making it easier to insert these characters.

By default, the panel now floats next to what you’re writing. It also disables finger inking by default—although you can change this setting, if you like—which eliminates the chance that you’ll bump the handwriting panel with your finger while writing with a pen and mess things up. It will also be harder to lose your pen.

You can head to Settings > Update & Security > Find My Device and use the new “Where’s my pen?” feature. Windows will tell you the GPS location where you were the last time you used your pen with your device, so it will be easier to find. Windows My People Is Back. When Microsoft announced the original Creators Update, they made a big deal about the Windows My People feature, also known as the People Bar.

This feature is designed to “place people at the center of Windows”, according to Microsoft. You’ll be able to drag and drop people to an area to the right side of your taskbar, giving you quicker, more convenient access to the few key people you regularly communicate with. These people are prioritized when you use the “Share” feature in Windows, and messages from them will be prioritized in apps like Mail, Skype, and Xbox Live.

Your priority contacts can also send “shoulder taps”, which are animated emojis that pop up from your taskbar. Microsoft removed this feature from the final version of the Creators Update because it needed more time.

It’s now back and looks set to finally launch with the Fall Creators Update. The Task Manager Shows GPU Usage.

The Windows Task Manager now allows you to see GPU resource usage alongside CPU, memory, disk, and network resource usage. Just open the Task Manager—for example, by right- clicking the taskbar and selecting “Task Manager”—and click the Performance tab in the detailed window.

This feature also shows graphics memory usage. On the Details pane, you can view GPU usage by each process on your system, just as you can see how much CPU an individual process is using. The New Touch Keyboard Is Based on Word.

Flow and Swift. Key. Windows 1. 0 now includes a new touch keyboard.

It’s build by the team behind Microsoft’s Word. Flow keyboard, used on Windows Phone.

It also includes some technology from Swift. Key, the popular i. Phone and Android keyboard Microsoft purchased in 2. The most obvious improvement is support for swipe input, allowing you to touch a letter and swipe to the other letters in a word before lifting your finger to type. It’s just like a variety of popular keyboards for phones, from Microsoft’s own Swift.

Key keyboard to the Google Keyboard on Android. Aside from that, you’ll find enhanced text prediction that automatically completes phrases, an improved emoji experience where you can smoothly scroll through a long list instead of going through emojis page by page, a one- handed touch keyboard, and a new settings menu you can access via the icon at the top left corner of the keyboard.

You can now use dictation to input text, too. Watch Free Dave Made A Maze (2017). Just tap the microphone button on the keyboard or press the new dictation hotkey, which is Windows+H, and start speaking to type.

The dictaiton feature also supports voice commands like “press backspace”, “delete last three words”, and “go to the end of paragraph”. This is reportedly part of the Composable Shell—or CShell—designed to provide a new shell interface that intelligently adapts to the device it’s run on. Spotify and i. Tunes Will Be Available in the Windows Store. Microsoft recently announced Windows S, a version of Windows 1. Windows Store. It’s targeted at schools, providing a more minimal version of Windows. You can pay an additional $5.

Windows Professional, enabling desktop apps.

Comcast to roll out XFinity Instant TV streaming service by fall 2. IPWatchdog. com. In late March, Reuters reported that American telecommunications conglomerate Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) is ramping up its own video streaming service called XFinity Instant TV which the company expects to make available by the third quarter of 2. Comcast customers in Boston and Chicago might be familiar with Stream, a streaming IP network that Comcast began offering in 2. Now, Comcast is rebranding Stream and turning it into XFinity Instant TV in areas already within Comcast’s traditional- cable footprint such as Washington D. C. Like Stream, XFinity Instant TV will be accessed through an app that allows the user to stream or download on multiple devices. A study released in the summer of 2.

U. S. In this study, market and user experience research firm Gf. K said that people are increasingly streaming shows available through over- the- air (OTA) reception and Internet services. Roku Streaming Player, an electronic box that provides a platform for streaming video services like Netflix. According to a study conducted by com. Score, most people who stream video choose the Roku. Google Chromecast is the second- most utilized streaming platform and is used by 2. Behind those two are Amazon Fire.

TV which is used by 1. Apple TV which is used by 1. Viewers who already have Internet- access with Comcast will use any of these devices to access XFinity Instant TV. Numbers show that 5. A full 7. 9% of people who still pay for cable also subscribe to a streaming service.

According to the study by Gf. K, the average annual salary “cord- cutters” is $5.

One of the obstacles Comcast has to hurdle in order to attract these high- end buyers is the likelihood of a server malfunctioning and shutting down. This issue interrupts viewing and lessens the overall experience for the user. That is a problem  addressed by the technology protected by U. S. 8. 26. 50. 73, which Comcast filed for in 2. Titled Method and System which Enables Subscribers to Select Videos from Websites for On- demand Delivery to Subscriber Television via a Television Network, this patent describes a solution to the problem of provisioning servers being temporarily shut down, which can negatively impact video streams when such a server contains a critical network element.

One existing method for streaming media is Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), a method by which users can connect to digital networks. While changes and improvements have been made over the years, a problem still exists when network elements are unable to interact with the associated network. This patent protects a method in which an active- passive model is adopted where the primary server is mirrored with a backup provisioning server, thereby keeping the media running with only slight delays when one server crashes and the backup provisioning server is brought up online. Interrupted viewing doesn’t just happen when servers stop operating.

One culprit of lag is a slow network that can’t keep up with streaming content, which is a very bandwidth- intensive operation. To sidestep this issue, a method must be used to not stream video, but to download the content and watch based on the capabilities of the computer (or tablet, or phone) rather than the capabilities of a network.

Streaming and Downloading of Content protects a method in which a switch is made from streaming content to downloading content while maintaining a seamless viewing experience for streaming content. To do this, two channels may be utilized, one a streaming channel and another a downloading channel. The quality, or bit rate, may also be altered to keep the transmission steady and without lag. The device streaming the content may “intelligently decide” to stream or to download, or perform both simultaneously.

One way that this intelligent decision making tech works is when content provider sends a data- file containing video content for download by a user viewing streaming content. Once the data- file has downloaded to a sufficient point, the device can switch from streaming the content to viewing the rest of it off of the downloaded data- file and the data stream can be stopped.

Comcast’s Xfinity is a network designed to send streaming video data to all of its customers in a given area. A useful method to prevent interrupted viewing to any of these consumers is to use the power of multiple servers across the network as efficiently as possible. Transmission Device Load Balancing, protects a method by which several computing device servers can stream the content requested across the network smoothly in a way that doesn’t waste server resources. The technology this patent protects determines the duration of the streaming video content requested by a user. Computing devices on a network are assigned unique duration ranges, such as 3. Requests for content within that duration rage are then directed to the predetermined computing devices. Computing device load is monitored and the duration ranges are adjusted to accommodate future processing requests based on the load status, if necessary.

Computing devices are assigned duration ranges in a hierarchy (i. This technology aids a content delivery network operator in making more efficient use of server resources.

Warning & Disclaimer: The pages, articles and comments on IPWatchdog. The articles published express the personal opinion and views of the author and should not be attributed to the author’s employer, clients or the sponsors of IPWatchdog.