Microsoft replaces Windows Movie Maker

Microsoft has finally announced a replacement for Windows Movie Maker, which the company stopped supporting in January.

Called Story Remix, it’s a desktop app that turns your photos and videos into ‘stories’ with their own soundtrack, theme and effects. Once the stories are finished the app lets you put them on Youtube, Facebook or Onedrive, or share by email.

The app, available now to Windows Insiders signed up to the Fast Ring, will launch fully as part of the Fall Creators Update in the autumn. This update will build upon the features added to the first Creators Update, which was released in April.

Other new tools include ‘Timeline’, which shows you apps on one computer that you were using on another, making it easier to switch between a laptop and a PC, for example. Watch Microsoft’s video about Story Remix at www.snipca.com/24383.