App Studio Windows 10 was released in preview in July. However, recent reports suggest that the fall update could be released on the 10th of this month.
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Microsoft has given notice to its original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners that they must no longer sell personal computers with operating systems older than Windows 10 from the middle of next year.
Microsoft also aims for personalisation – it says users will be able to “invite in-house or external developers to write and submit private line of business (LOB) apps to your app inventory”. The facility is for administrators who would like to make available a few specific apps only to their users outside the purview of the regular Windows Store Channel in Windows 10.
The same deadline goes for Windows 8.1 powered devices and all its versions.
Until now, Windows 10 was treated as a special case among the other Windows Update downloads.
The coming Windows Store for Business portal can serve up Windows Store apps for volume acquisition and distribution, as well as custom line-of-business apps that are meant for distribution only inside a particular organization. On Windows Phone, Cortana is accessible via the search button.
Windows insiders are also expected to get this new update before everyone else later this week. The end of mainstream support for 8.1 will be in January of 2018, with extended support ending in January of 2023. This is great for showcasing photos and music. Microsoft does say in a recent blog post about the feature that streaming video services won’t work with this. Favorites sync across different PCs finally.
It is very much possible as on the same day Windows 10 is heading to Xbox One as well.
Users can now manage the contents of a collection for an app without making any update to the app itself.
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Once listed as a recommended update, the upgrade process will begin automatically for any users who have the automatic upgrade option activated.
