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In the April 2018 Update, Task View gained a superpower:

Timeline (see Figure 6-3). Now, instead of showing you miniatures
only for every window open right now, it also lets you scroll down
to see (or do a search for) every window you’ve had open in the
past 30 days—even on other machines! Even iPhones and Android

phones running Microsoft apps (the Office apps and the Edge
browser).

The Timeline is an answer, at last, to the questions “Where did I

put that?” and “Where did I see that?” If you worked on it in the
past month, you’ll find it here.

Note

That’s mostly true. Unfortunately, apps have to be updated to work with Timeline. And at the
outset, most of the Timeline-friendly programs come only from Microsoft.

Nearby Sharing. This feature lets you shoot files, photos, web
pages, and so on to other machines nearby wirelessly, without

messing with passwords, file sharing, networking, or setup. It’s
infinitely superior to HomeGroup, Microsoft’s previous attempt at

the casual file-sharing feature, which disappeared in the April 2018
Update.

If You’re Used to Windows 8

If you’ve never used a version of Windows 10 before, here’s what will be
new to you:

The Start menu. In Windows 10, the Start menu is back, and it
works pretty much just as it always has. The Windows 8 tiles are

still there, attached to the right side of the menu (Figure P-1)—but
they no longer take over your entire screen, interrupting what you
were doing, like the Windows 8 Start screen did.