Microsoft Announces Continuum, Turning Windows 10 Phones Into Desktops

Microsoft simply incontestable one amongst the intriguing potentialities from its single platform/multiple kind factors approach for Windows 10: the flexibility to use your phone as your microcomputer.

In distinction to Apple’s “Continuity,” that aims to form moving between phone, pill and desktop seamless, Microsoft’s time instead has the phone you’re mistreatment adapt its interface reckoning on the context you’re mistreatment it.

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In an associate on-stage demo, Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore connected a phone to a monitor, keyboard and mouse, and instantly the UI he was mistreatment tailored to the new inputs and outputs. whereas the software system interface we have a tendency to saw on screen didn’t look precisely like Windows ten on a laptop computer or microcomputer, the applications shown (especially PowerPoint) did. rather than creating minor changes to a presentation employing a 5-inch screen, you'll be able to merely connect with associate HDMI-compatible monitor and have all the house and tools you'd on a full laptop.

Belfiore found out that the feature extremely shines once apps are engineered to scale across kind factors, therefore whether or not or not this finishes up being a feature most would wish to require advantage of extremely depends on developers committing their efforts to Windows ten.

Of course, phone hardware isn’t engineered to deliver full-on desktop interfaces (just raise Motorola!). That being the case, Belfiore aforementioned the feature can run on future devices — a touch that time are going to be one amongst the merchandising points Microsoft goes to push for coming Lumia devices.