Dec 22, 2024 | Updated: 11:35 AM EDT
May 13, 2017 06:02 AM EDT
There's a saying that 'If you can't beat your enemies, be friends with them.' This quote was used by Microsoft as their Windows 10 biggest improvements lands on mobile platforms; not Windows 10 mobile, but iOS and Android.
According to The Verge, during the Build Developer Conference, Microsoft claimed how they plan to use Windows 10 and its Fall Creators Update to make other companies' operating systems better. Several of the desktop operating system's new updates extend over to mobile. In fact, a Pick Up Where You Left Off feature let users take work done on a Windows 10 device and move it over to mobile operating systems, refreshed clipboards also let users take their clips from Windows 10 PC or tablet and move them to Android or iOS, vice versa.
As reports suggested, the biggest part of Windows 10 accessing other mobile ecosystems is OneDrive. This new OneDrive Offline Folders let consumers save folders to their iOS and Android device and open it even without connecting to the internet. This is available now for Android users with Office 365 subscriptions and OneDrive for business accounts; it will also join iOS in the next few months.
As noted by ZD Net, Microsoft has released OneDrive on iMessage so that owners of iOS devices can share files, photos, and folders while using Apple's instant-messaging app. This feature was started to be available last May 11, 2017, with an update to the latest version of OneDrive on iOS. Microsoft has also detailed its Project Rome software development kit to get iOS to play nicely with the Microsoft Graph interface for business software developers.
This multiplatform plan was detailed by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's conference keynote last Monday. He pointed that most people use devices on multiple platforms. In that conference, surprisingly Microsoft hasn't spent much time on the upcoming Windows Phone, in which they should put speculations of an eventual Surface Phone to rest for least little bit longer.
