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.

Comments

More Parties More External Access

[Luthair]

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?

Re:I didn't even know MS renamed WP

[CanadianMacFan]

Thank goodness because every time I saw WP I always thought WordPerfect. :)

I still miss using it. The reveal codes feature was great as it made finding out formatting problems so easy to fix.

Notifications

[thegarbz]

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!"

Re: MS beat Google to it!

[mikael]

Even the greybeards in my office don't want to use Windows 10 - they don't trust why Microsoft is do determined and hell-bent on getting Windows 10 on every computer system and then install updates willy-nilly along with calling home all the time. Now, there is this incredible pressure to have everything integrated into a network based system accessible from a smartphone or tablet. Even the little gadgets that cyclists or hanglglider pilots use. Everything can be recorded, saved, logged and played back.

Visual Studio is still used for console game development (PS4 and XBox). But that was VS 2012. I've used all the different versions and it is "mutating". It used to be a simple code and compile environment like Turbo C++. Now, there is all the enterprise level code development, cross-compilation. There were always options to use third party compilers, so it has become more of a framework GUI than a compiler.