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Windows 10’s new My People experience will not make it in time for the Creators Update

By Ng Chong Seng - on 20 Jan 2017, 10:05am

Windows 10’s new My People experience will not make it in time for the Creators Update

Announced in October last year, Windows 10’s next major update - Creators Update (a.k.a. Redstone 2) - is expected to arrive sometime this April. Since then, more than a handful of preview builds had been released for testers in the Insider Program to test drive some of the new features. The latest to drop today is build 15014 for PC and mobile, and it includes the ebook store (U.S. only) that we reported just two days back.

Interestingly, right at the end of the blog post detailing what’s new in build 15014 is a short paragraph announcing what’s not coming to the Creators Update: the new My People experience.

Shown off during the Creators Update unveiling, this My People experience is a people-centric feature that aims to let you connect with people important to you more easily. So you can do things like pin icons of your contacts to the taskbar and drag items down there to start sharing. With apps able to have their own mini UI in each contacts’ People pane, you can, say, just start a Skype chat right inside the pane, instead of opening a full-blown Skype UI.

According to the blog post, this feature is now delayed to “the next major update to Windows”, which very likely means the Redstone 3 update that’s expected to arrive in fall (basically: end of the year). It’s a bummer really, because My People is one of the bigger user-facing features that I'm looking forward to in the Creators Update - but hey, at least it isn’t canceled.

Source: Microsoft.

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