W10 update coming 17 Oct (minus Timeline)

The next Windows 10 update will arrive on 17 October, Microsoft has confirmed. It will be called the Fall Creators Update worldwide and, despite rumours, won’t be renamed ‘Autumn’ in the UK.

A follow up to the first Creators Update, released in April, it will contain the new Files On-demand tool, giving you desktop access to your files stored online in Onedrive, without you having to download them to your PC (see screenshot). This could save considerable storage space.

However, it will lack some useful-sounding features that Microsoft announced earlier this year. These include Timeline, which lets you find what you were working on in the past (“two hours or two months ago”); and ‘Pick up where you left off’, which lets you resume your work at the same place (on the same document, for example) across different devices. Confusingly, both are still listed on Microsoft’s webpage for the update (www.snipca.com/25513).