The launch of Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16193 rounds off an eventful day in Seattle for Microsoft. In the past three hours, the company has unveiled a completely overhauled design for Windows, surprised the world by announcing iTunes is coming to the Windows Store and revealed details of Windows 10’s next major update, all during the Day 2 keynote of its BUILD 2017 developers conference.
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The company is now giving Windows Insiders their first look at the Fall Creators Update. Build 16193 is rolling out now to enrolled PCs across the world. While it’s incomplete and only a taste of what’s to come, it’s the first Windows version to officially wear the Fall Creators Update branding.
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The major addition to the build is Story Remix, an “evolution” of the Photos app that lets you transform your favourite albums into short videos. It’s backed by an AI-driven service that can intelligently match your best memories together and add music and transitions. It’s meant to make it easier to relive fun days out and meet-ups with friends, letting you share at the touch of a button.
“Story Remix is an evolution of the Photos app that makes it easier than ever to relive your memories and introduces video story creation from your photos and videos,” said Microsoft. “Story Remix uses its understanding of your content to find collections of content most relevant to you and automatically brings it together into video stories – each with a soundtrack, theme, and transitions.”
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Story Remix is also significant because it’s the first app to get the full Fluent Design treatment. Unveiled by Microsoft at BUILD today, Fluent Design will eventually come to all Windows apps. It’s a new cohesive design language built around typography, spacing and animation. In the past few months, elements of it have appeared in apps like Groove Music and Films & TV but Story Remix is the first to have a complete implementation.
The app takes advantage of Fluent features including use of subtle animation to accent specific details and Microsoft’s “acrylic” control for behind-the-content blur and parallax. There’s also support for “conscious scrollbars” but Microsoft hasn’t explained how these operate.
Fluent Design is still a long way from being complete and it won’t be entirely implemented when the Fall Update releases. The long-term aim is to create “intuitive, harmonious, responsive and inclusive” apps which run across devices, making Story Remix the hero product for the new design language.
Besides Fluent and Story Remix, the new Insider Preview build also includes changes to Windows’ new power management mode and the ability to individually change the volume of Universal Windows apps. This has been a top-requested feature in the Feedback Hub since the launch of Windows 10.
Windows Insiders can download Build 16159 today to start creating with Story Remix and experimenting with the first complete use of Fluent Design. Over time, the UI will be deployed across the entire Windows interface, an effort that should be completed next year. The Windows 10 Fall Update will launch around September so there’ll be a short transition period as Fluent is integrated into a growing number of apps.
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