Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17004 for PC

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Today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17004 for PC to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring who have opted in to Skip Ahead only. Insiders who joined Skip Ahead will continue to receive builds from the RS_PRERELEASE branch which has transitioned to RS4 which is the release that will come after the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (RS3). Because we are just beginning development for RS4, Insiders shouldn’t expect to see a lot of big changes or new features just yet. Our focus remains getting the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update ready for release!

Insiders will notice that the build numbers have jumped ahead again but this time to 17xxx. This is what we do normally at the beginning of development of a new feature update for Windows 10.

Also – you may notice that the Windows Insider Preview branding has disappeared from the build (shown via the desktop watermark at the lower right hand corner). This should be back with the next build.

What’s new in Build 17004

Fluent Design: As we progress into the next feature update, you’ll begin to see more and more elements of Fluent Design light up. We love the enthusiasm we’ve seen for Fluent Design, and with today’s build you’ll notice that Reveal is now visible on Start in All apps.

Microsoft Edge Improvements:

• We fixed an issue where typing a web address into the address bar from the New Tab and Start Page and would sometimes clear the text and not result in any page navigation
• We fixed an issue resulting in keyboard layout changes potentially not being applied when using Microsoft Edge after setting focus to the address bar.
• We fixed an issue where the tab previews for PDFs were black with a white bar on each side.
• We fixed an issue where the first time you pressed Ctrl + F to open Search, the search box doesn’t get focus. We also fixed an issue where you might be unable to type in the address bar after clicking on CTRL+F text field.
• We fixed an issue where “Open with previous pages” wouldn’t recover tabs after dragging a tab between two Microsoft Edge windows.
• We fixed an issue resulting copy/paste and the print dialog not working for those using the updated Youtube.com website design.
• We fixed an issue where Ctrl + Click on a link in a PDF wouldn’t open the link in a new tab.
• We fixed an issue resulting in PDFs potentially rendering blank after panning down a few pages and back up.
• We fixed an issue from recent flights where Alt + D wouldn’t bring input focus to the address bar when certain keyboards were active.

Input Improvements:

• We fixed an issue resulting in the enter key not working properly in Facebook Messenger.
• We fixed an issue resulting in the Delete key on the full touch keyboard layout unexpectedly inserting a period in UWP apps.
• We fixed an issue resulting in a stutter when selecting long strings in certain single line editable text boxes (for example when naming favorites in Microsoft Edge).

General changes, improvements, and fixes for PC

• RS4 builds include many of the same fixes included in the latest RS3 builds.
• We are introducing a new color wheel to Color & High Contrast Settings to help you get a feel for the effect of each of the different available color filters.
• You may see a Microsoft Edge shortcut on your desktop after upgrading to this build. You can delete the shortcut, upgrade from this build and it will not return.
• We fixed an issue resulting in Mod Organizer no longer load mods into Skyrim in recent flights.
• We fixed an issue resulting in the last flighted build sometimes green screening with a SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION in win32kfull.sys.
• We fixed an issue resulting in the WIN+X menu sometimes unexpectedly missing the accelerator key underline hints.

Windows Insider Program + LinkedIn = AWESOME

Windows Insiders! You’re going to see us doing a lot more with our friends in LinkedIn this year in order to provide YOU the best possible career and learning opportunities as part of our program. This week at Ignite, the LinkedIn folks are giving away 6 free courses on Deploying, Administering and Troubleshooting Office 365 that you might be interested in. Since we know many of you are following along on our MS Ignite adventures, we thought we’d share that info with you too. If you’d like to try these, click here!

Microsoft Announces Office 2019

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In a brief announcement, Microsoft today said that it will ship Office 2019 late next year. The release is aimed at businesses and consumers who aren’t ready to move to the cloud.

“Office 2019 is the next perpetual update for Office,” Microsoft’s Jared Spataro writes. “This release will include perpetual versions of the Office apps (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook) and servers (including Exchange, SharePoint, and Skype for Business).”

Microsoft will preview Office 2019 in mid-2018, the firm says, and will ship the products by the end of the year.

As for new features, we only get a few details.

“Office 2019 will add new user and IT capabilities for customers who aren’t yet ready for the cloud,” Mr. Spataro notes. “For example, new and improved inking features—like pressure sensitivity, tilt effects, and ink replay—will allow you to work more naturally. New formulas and charts will make data analysis for Excel more powerful. Visual animation features—like Morph and Zoom—will add polish to PowerPoint presentations. Server enhancements will include updates to IT manageability, usability, voice, and security.”

“We recognize that moving to the cloud is a journey with many considerations along the way,” he concludes. “Office 2019 will be a valuable upgrade for customers who feel that they need to keep some or all of their apps and servers on-premises, and we look forward to sharing more details about the release in the coming months.”

Microsoft Ships Major OneNote for Windows 10 Update

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Microsoft this week is documenting a major update to OneNote for Windows 10. But only the select few Windows Insiders who signed up for the Skip Ahead ring, now closed to the public, can access the update.

So a few points of clarification here.

Windows 10 users can access two versions of the OneNote app. One, called OneNote for Windows 10, and the subject of this post, is a UWP mobile app that is included with Windows 10. The other, called OneNote 2016, is available for free from the web as a standalone desktop application, or via various Office 365 subscriptions.

(Confusing matters, Microsoft is bringing the desktop Office/365 suites to the Windows Store, but it is not porting OneNote 2016 as part of this effort. This suggests that OneNote for Windows 10 is “the future” of OneNote, and that at some point Microsoft might actually stop updating the desktop version of the application.)

And then there’s Skip Ahead, that most misbegotten of Windows Insider rings. As you may recall,Microsoft announced in July that it would temporarily offer a new ring to Insiders called Skip Ahead that would let them test Redstone 4, the version of Windows 10 expected in March 2018, instead of the Fall Creators Update (Redstone 3). But Skip Ahead wasn’t just temporary—it will be closed when the Fall Creators Update is completed—it was also limited to an unknown number of participants. So if you see today’s OneNote for Windows 10 news and think, gee, I’d really love to check that out, but you haven’t yet signed up for Skip Ahead—doh!—it’s already too late.

To recap, the features described below are coming to OneNote sometime after the release of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. And they can only be tested by a small group of Insiders in with PCs in the Skip Ahead ring at this time. Sorry.

So here’s what Microsoft has announced is new to OneNote for Windows 10 version 17.8568.5751.

Convert handwriting to text. Now, you can select handwritten notes in your notes and convert them to text. Just select the Lasso Select button on the Draw tab, drag a circle around the notes you want to convert, and then click Ink to Text.

New ink effects. Office 365 subscribers can access new lava, ocean, bronze, and rose gold ink effects from the Drawing tab.

New graph features. Office 365 subscribers can now calculate its new graphing features like minima, maxima, and axes intercepts.

Recent pages. New Forward and Back buttons above the Home tab can be used to navigate through the note pages you’ve already visited.

Paragraph links. Now, you can create a link to a specific paragraph and jump right to that content. “It’s a great way to make a quick table of contents at the top of a long page of notes, or copy the link and paste it in an email to help others find the specific content you want them to see,” Microsoft says.

Copy a hyperlink. Now, you can right-click a hyperlink in your notes and copy the link to the Clipboard so you can use it elsewhere.

Windows 10 S Moves Tentatively Into the Enterprise

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Microsoft is now expanding the reach of Windows 10 S beyond education to include so-called “front-line workers” in the enterprise.

There’s not a lot of information about this initiative yet. But here’s what I know so far.

First, three PC makers—Fujitsu, HP, and Lenovo—have agreed to sell inexpensive, Windows 10-based PCs to businesses. Prices start at $275. These PCs will be just as low-end as the education-based Windows 10 PCs that various PC makers announced in the spring. But more expensive and more capable versions will be offered too, closing the gap with Microsoft’s expensive Surface Laptop.

Microsoft refers to these PCs as being “Microsoft 365-powered,” suggesting that those businesses that subscribe to Microsoft 365 F1, which is likewise aimed at front-line workers, will be able to use Windows 10 S instead of Windows 10 Business or Enterprise, as has been the case so far.

The front-line worker bit is interesting. Obviously, Windows 10 S is not acceptable to most IT workers, so limiting the audience in this way makes sense.

And while it’s unclear if this announcement is tied to Windows 10 S, it appears that new Windows 10 capabilities around remote PC deployment and management will, in fact, support Windows 10 S too. Meaning that Microsoft is doing work to make this offering more acceptable to IT.

I’ve not seen any of these new PCs yet, but this is one of the Ignite announcements that I’ll be examining further this week

Microsoft Issues Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16291 to to the Fast Ring

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Microsoft tonight announced a new build for Windows Insiders on the Fast ring. Despite promises about faster build churn,it’s been almost a week since the last build.

“As we mentioned previously, we are now at the point of the development cycle for the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update where our focus is now on stabilization for release to the world,” Dona Sarkar notes, again. “This means that we are releasing new builds to Insiders more quickly and that these builds will include mostly bug fixes. You’ll notice that this build continues to include a bunch of good bug fixes Insiders will enjoy.”

Amazingly, there is actually one new feature in build 16291: Cortana support for Resume from phones to PC.

“Cortana users can now resume articles, news from their iPhones and Android phones to PC from within the Cortana app,” Ms. Sarkar notes. “This exciting feature comes in addition to the existing features where users can sync reminders, notifications, and SMS across their devices and stay connected on the go.”

Microsoft also addressed an issue with Surface Pro 3 from the previous Fast ring build.

“If you are a Windows Insider who has a Surface Pro 3 and hit the bug causing the device to end up in an ‘unbootable’ state where the Windows OS will not load and it appears to be stuck on a ‘spinning dots’ screen – click here and read this forum post on how to get your Surface Pro 3 up and running again,” Sarkar adds

System Protection Turn On Or Off In Windows 10

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One of the more useful features built into Windows 10 is System Protection, which regularly creates and saves the settings and critical system files in the operating system as restore points.

This helps you restore your computer back to the previous, more stable state, if anything goes wrong.

By default, System Protection will create restore points every 7 days if no restore point is created during this period. Though these are also created before any significant event like deploying of Windows updates, installation of new programs.

And, of course, you can also create them manually.

For now, though, let’s see how you can turn System Protection on or off in Windows 10.

1. Open the Control Panel, in Icons view, and click on Recovery.

2. Here, click on the Configure System Restore link.

3. If you are promoted by the UAC, click on Yes to continue.

4. Go to Protection Settings, and select the drive you want to manage system protection for. Then click on the Configure button to bring up the system protection panel for that drive.

5. Here you can turn on system protection for the given drive by checking the appropriate radio button under the Restore Settings section. Or disable it, if you want to turn it off.

6. You can also use the slider under Disk Space Usage to adjust the amount of space you want to use for system protection. The option to delete all restore points for that particular drive is also available here towards the end.

Preview Versions of Office 2016 in the Windows Store

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With the release today of the Windows 10 S-based Surface Laptop, Microsoft has brought preview versions of Office 2016 to the Windows Store as well.

“Windows 10 S runs the rich desktop Office apps including popular productivity apps like Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook,” Microsoft notes. “The full suite of Office apps in preview are currently available to download today with Office 365 in the Windows Store for Windows 10 S. On Surface Laptop, you can simply open the Start menu and click on any of the Office app icons like Word, Excel, or PowerPoint to launch the download from the Store.”

In the off chance you’re not aware of what this all means, Surface Laptop is the first PC to ship with Windows 10 S, Microsoft’s restrictive new version of Windows. Excluding the apps bundled in-box, Windows 10 S only runs Windows Store apps, meaning that you can’t install traditional desktop applications like Chrome, iTunes, or Photoshop. But that means you can’t install Office 2016 either, since that suite of applications is designed for desktop PC technologies.

But as Microsoft revealed at the Surface Laptop announcement a month ago, it is bringing those applications to the Windows Store via its Desktop Bridge (“Centennial”) technologies. But this will happen over time, with just four apps today—Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2016—in preview, and as part of Office 365 Personal and Home bundles. (Office 365 for Education Plus and Office 365 Education E5 are coming, too. And Office 365 plans for business customers will also be supported started in 2018.)

Over time, more desktop apps in the Office 2016 suite will be added to the Windows Store, Microsoft says. (It has committed to at least Access, OneNote, and Publisher 2016.) And Microsoft will make standalone Office 2016 suites, like Office Home & Student 2016 and Office Home & Business 2016 available over time. These other apps, suites, and Office 365 bundles should all be out of preview later this year or by early 2018.

For more information, please refer to Microsoft’s Office on Windows 10 S FAQ, which notes a few interesting tidbits:

• During the preview period, customers who buy a Surface Laptop (or, later, a Surface Pro) with Windows 10 S will get one year free of Office 365 Personal, a $70 value.
• If you already have an Office 365 Home subscription, you can use the free Office 365 Personal offer to extend your existing subscription by 9 months.
• Over time, the Office 2016 apps in the Store will be made available to customers in all markets supported by the Windows Store.
• The Office 2016 apps in the Store do not currently support Office 365 business plans or volume licenses. (Again, that is coming in 2018.)
• The Office 2016 apps in the Store are of course the 32-bit versions that we all use today because they are compatible with a broad range of Office add-ins. (Older COM-based add-ins are not supported, however.)
• Windows 10 S users can, of course, use the Office Mobile apps if they’d like. OneNote Mobile is included as part of all Windows 10 product editions, including Windows 10 S.