Microsoft to Ditch Key Windows 10 Feature in the Summer May 25, 2021 15:19 GMT
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We’ve known for a while that Microsoft was planning to pull support for syncing activities through the built-in Windows 10 Timeline feature, but now it looks like the feature is going away much sooner than originally expected.
More specifically, the official announcement landed in April when Microsoft decided to drop sync support in Windows Timeline for Windows 10 preview users.
“If you have your activity history synced across your devices through your Microsoft account (MSA), you will no longer have the option to upload new activity in Timeline. AAD-connected accounts won’t be impacted,” the company said at that point.
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Microsoft is killing my favorite Windows 10 feature
Windows 10 s Timeline is losing its cross-device sync, a killer productivity feature, and I m crushed.
Microsoft is killing one of my most beloved Windows 10 features, a versatile tool that I use every single day, and I am incredibly sad about it.
I’ve recommended Windows 10’s Timeline tool over and over again, calling it a truly helpful feature you don’t know about and recommending it as a key Windows tool to supercharge your productivity. Timeline shows you a chronological history of your recent activity in supported key apps, including individual Office files, images, and browser tabs in Edge or Chrome. Clicking one of the files or webpages shown in Timeline opens it back up, making it dead simple to jump back into something you were working on before.
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Yes, most of Windows Timeline’s syncing functionality can be replicated by individual apps, but in a kludgy and clunky way. If you’re signed into Chrome, its history settings show you recent tabs across sessions on all your devices, letting you pick and choose ones to reopen on your current computer. And if you’re storing Office files in Microsoft’s OneDrive which you need to do to take advantage of Timeline anyway you can open up Excel or Word or PowerPoint and simply use the file browser to open the file from its location in your cloud storage.
Microsoft is winding down another Windows 10 feature, the Timeline
Apr 14, 2021 13:42 EDT with 23 comments
Microsoft seems to be winding down on yet another Windows 10 feature that it made a big deal out of a few years ago. The company released a new Windows 10 build to Insiders in the Dev channel today, and with it came the announcement that it will no longer be possible to upload Timeline data from a Windows 10 PC, meaning it won t be accessible on other devices.
The Windows Timeline feature was introduced about four years ago at Build 2017, though it wasn t until the following year that the feature would ship in a feature update for Windows 10. Timeline was a pretty significant change, as it let you access your recently open files and websites from the past 30 days, including the ability to sync that history across devices. Microsoft even brought the Timeline to smartphones some time later, emphasizing the focus on continuity between devices.
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