Microsoft improves Cortana, Edge and Mobile in Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15007

From PC World: Microsoft's Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15007 dropped Thursday afternoon, a scant few days after its huge Build 15002 went live. Apparently the company wasn't quite done.

The new build, detailed in a lengthy blog post, adds three key ingredients: new Edge features, the ability to easily resume work after switching PCs, and a downloadable themes store designed to freshen up your PC. There's also a small herd of Mobile improvements (we were wondering why there was no mobile component to Build 15002), some user-facing and some under-the-hood. It’s all leading toward the major Creators Update, which should begin rolling out later this spring.

Microsoft typically picks up the pace of rolling out new features a couple of months before it finalizes its latest “service patch” updates, like the Anniversary Update. Two releases in a week is certainly significant, though it’s likely Microsoft’s in-house developers are simply releasing a flood of pent-up code that they were working on over the holiday.

The most important new feature is Cortana’s ability to help you pick up where you left off. According to Microsoft, once you switch PCs, Cortana will display quick links in the Action Center notifications to point you to the Web pages you were just viewing, as well as pointers back to cloud-based files like a recent PowerPoint document saved in SharePoint. This new Cortana capability will also take advantage of “notification grouping,” first introduced in this week’s build 15002, which consolidates relevant notifications in the Action Center so it’s not overrun with seemingly unrelated links.

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