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Windows 10 Anniversary Update Will Bring Android Notifications To Your PC (winbeta.org)
An anonymous reader writes: In an Anniversary Update scheduled to launch this summer, Microsoft is bringing a new Action Center UI to Windows 10 PCs and Windows 10 Mobile. [According to WinBeta.org,] the new Action Center will sync up to to the cloud, allowing users to dismiss a notification on more than one device. For example, users will be able to dismiss a text message on their PC, and have that same notification be dismissed on their phone. Android users will be happy to know that this functionality is coming to Android via the Cortana app. Android users will be able to see and dismiss notifications that appear on their PC, and vice-versa. Developers will be able to create widgets and tiles for the new Action Center as well.
Won't this give Microsoft more information about me? No thanks! They don't need to know each and every text message I get, and every notification from Android...Google already knows them, thank you very much, and that's quite enough. I trust Google more than Microsoft.
Do computer viruses that are activated like those fictional killers who need a password to kill a specific victim exist? ~:/
I still own a Windows Mobile phone although I don't really use it anymore. Calling their new mobile OS Windows 10 Mobile just adds another layer of confusion beside skipping the 9.
Sounds pretty darn handy, but we all know what's going on here.
Because google took 10 years to think that desktop users might want notifications without being forced to use lame desktop notifications.
Google should have a full blow app that installs to Windows, but they don't want to do that because they don't really want to faciltate you being able to use a desktop instead of the phone. Google and Facebook and most major services and app makers all make more money when you're on your mobile and that's the real reason there is so much interest in the mobile markets and silly phone features that nobody uses while they still leave core features out of the phone.. like FUCKING CALLER ID AND CALL BLOCKING google.. Jesus it's a phone OS right. Did you think maybe to spend some time making it into a real OS and not bet the farm that OEM's could pull that out of their ass.. OEMS often with limit development, especially in the broad and interlocked app services market we have today.
Google has really dropped the ball on Android, it's a mess, insecure, filled with apps that don't even do anything and it's not a good phone or mobile platform really. I'm far more impressed by Windows Phone and smarter UI and Cortana seems to moving a long much faster than Siri or Ok Google. A perfect example of dumb google decisions.
They have Ok Google.. and instead of really focusing on that. They have all these teams trying to interlock so many things that nobody even remotely asked for.. like google cards. Ok.. decent idea, but the focus should be OK Google, not trying to pile too much data up on one screen and water down the potential of the services that will actually matter.. like voice control and voice recognition. It's a phone.. the made a law saying you can't drive with them.. and what.. Google doesn't think voice control deserve real effort either?
I just don't get it. There are clear things that makes phones and mobile platforms awesome and instead of working on those google keeps making replacing apps for apps that already exist. Like Google Keep.. ok that's a great idea.. 10 years ago. Now a days though that's not something that's going to excit people.. just like Google+. Just because a service gets made doesn't mean we need dozens of copy cat services.
In the end Facebook is little more than a digital profile and login service. It's app platform is just a dead end and social engineering will just be built right into Windows 10 and linked to everyones login .. which over time will keep people trickling back to MS because in the end Google isn't offering anything new an useful anymore, just copies of existing technologies and inferior offerings in terms of their mobile apps, their email app, their calendar app. their office apps.
The only place google kicks ass is the search. Everything else they've done is entirely mediocre.. especially gmail and the entirely unnecessary label system that 90% of people will never learn to use because it's not as intuitive as a simple drag and drop folder. Now you can argue you couldn't have drag and drop webpages back then.. OK but it's not back then anymore and google wants to play market leader. Where are the market leading apps?
The fact is they are just making those services to store and mine your data because that, in the end, is all their business is about. Collecting, parsing and interpreting data. That is what Google does and mostly all they do well.
I've been doing this for a long time now using KDE Connect.
Unfortunately this would simply give someone who doesn't currently have access to your devices data. Yet another party who law enforcement could go to... To me the idea of random mobile notifications isn't really even interesting. I already have email access on my PC, and access to hangouts what more would I need?
Am I right to assume this is already possible on Linux desktops and on OS X? If so, how?
You're right, I wouldn't steal a car. But if it were possible, I sure as hell would download one!
Forget Nuclear. Wise people know the best way to hurt a person is through their bank account and not through mortal violence.
They can launch a missile into the right orbit where it explodes with enough small space junk that it takes down most satellites. If they launch only one they can pretend it was an accident or claim that the US actually intercepted it and blew it up causing all the damage. If they want all out war they can launch more than one and pollute the orbits of earth with enough small space junk that most satellites are destroyed and it's impractical to put new ones up there with all the space debris.
And it's within their capabilities. Their missiles don't even need to be all that accurate either.
Windows 10 anniversary
is actually Windows 2
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
Kim, buddy, you've missed the target, just like your missile.
A windows update has been applied
*dismiss*
A windows update has been applied
"I know"
A windows update has been applied
"STOP"
A windows update has been applied
Have you tried Office365?
"AHHHH!"
MS is positioning themselves to manage all devices and be a defacto superset
Twinstiq, game news
id like to limit the ever increasing reach of Microsoft to the PC space, until they can't produce a decent PC-Mobile Hybrid I'll stick with Android
the pushbullet app does this exactly and more.
--- widget evolution: enhanced, plus, super, ultra, extreme, exxxtreme, ultra-extreme,
of kde connect. Nice integration with KDE, working on some other DEs as well.