Scheduled to arrive sometime early next year, Microsoft’s Windows 10 Creators Update will do more than introduce new 3D-imaging and mixed-reality tools for artists — it will also provide business users with a variety of new security and productivity features.
Rob Lefferts, Microsoft’s director of program management for Windows Enterprise and Security, highlighted some of the business-focused updates on the way in a blog post yesterday.
Among the new capabilities set to arrive with the next big Windows 10 update are improved tracking of security issues, more forensics and remediation tools and cloud-based enhancements designed to simplify and save time on IT management. Business users will also be able to reduce the size of Windows updates through new differential download capabilities.
Improved Detection, Responses to Network Threats
Not long after Microsoft rolled out the Windows 10 Anniversary Update in August, the company announced that the next major version of its operating system would bring a variety of new creativity-focused tools for 3D imaging, painting and other artistic applications. Along with the so-called Creators Update arriving in 2017, Microsoft also plans to launch several new devices to support design tasks, including the Surface Studio desktop screen and the Surface Dial accessory for color and design tool management.
Beyond the goal of “empowering the creators in all of us,” Microsoft also aims to boost capabilities for business users with the coming Creators Update, Lefferts said yesterday.
“The cyber threat landscape today requires an ongoing and relentless focus on security,” Lefferts said. “The Creators Update will continue to bring new security capabilities to IT administrators to better protect, defend and respond to threats on their networks and devices.”
For example, improvements to the Windows Security Center, a centralized portal for security management that first launched with the Anniversary Update, will “make it easier to…