brighten dark photos with just one button. Figure 4-20 shows the enhance button. You can also crop a photo pretty easily. Note the Crop button at the bottom of Figure 4-20 .
Figure 4-20. The Crop, Enhance, and Rotate buttons beneath the photo
One of my favorite things about this app is that the presentation is similar on both the Desktop mode and the Mobile mode, indicating Microsoft’s attempt to truly offer a universal photo app experience.
Music and Videos Apps
The new universal Music app has cooler features, but no longer has the Xbox naming convention. Although the Music app is very similar to the previous version, it has some modifications that makes its usage more efficient. You can now drag and drop songs into your Music app from across devices, and play songs from your OneDrive. You can also make playlists by dragging and dropping songs from different devices. There is better support to browse and buy music from the Windows Store. You can also shuffle, filter, and sort through songs from different artists. Overall, the new Music app has a much better, cleaner, and more elegant design (with a dark color scheme), as well as easier navigation and better accessibility.
The Videos app lets you browse, play, filter, and sort video files, as well as add your own folder of videos to the collection. You can do the same for purchased movies and TV shows, and play and pause them across devices.
Microsoft Office Apps
The Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps in Windows 10 have significantly improved—both in design and in functionality. The Office for Windows 10 universal apps support Microsoft’s traditional ribbon menu design. The Reflow mode enhances the viewing of documents on smartphones and small tablets.
Animations in PowerPoint are hardware enabled. The new Office for Windows 10 apps also support wireless printing.
Wrapping It Up
In this chapter I defined and detailed the concept of universal apps and showed you what some of the built-in universal apps—such as Mail, Calendar, Photos, Music, and Videos—and the Office apps look like, and how to use them. I showed you the new design of these apps, and how they behave similarly across devices. I showed you the different features of the Mail and Calendar apps. I also showed you how your photos can be arranged in different ways and more efficiently. I explained how the Music and Videos apps are more powerful now, and extra the how the new Office apps work so well across all devices.
Index
A
Action center
delete notifications
entire notifications
message notifications
B
Background image, start screen
background personalization
image indication
personalization selection
photo selection
program list
settings app
tapping browse
Bing Maps
Black beans
C
Calendar app
app list
dates slider
day view design
hamburger menu
Continum feature
apps lock, desktop
apps lock, tablet
notifications center
Cortana
and Edge combo
category interest
add place
Notebook
selection
commands
Bing Maps
black beans
calendar
microphone
text message
overview
start screen
tablet/pc
D
Driving mode
M
Mail app
add account
compose mail
delete
flag
hamburger menu
refresh button
searh button
welcome screen
Microsoft Edge
address bar
Hub icon
reading view
web page
Music app
P
Phone dialer
Phones and small devices
Action Center
delete notifications
entire notifications
message notifications
background image, start screen
background personalization
image indication
personalization selection
photo selection
program list
settings app
tapping browse
driving mode
maps
messaging app
phone dialer
recently downloaded apps
visual voicemail
Photos app
albums view
collection view
crop button
enhance button
hamburger menu
T
Tablets and desktops
continum feature
apps lock, desktop
apps lock, tablet
notifications center
edit tiles
existing category
new category
move tiles
pin to start
power button
quick options
recent apps
resize tiles
start menu
swipe gestures
unpin from start
Task view