You may have heard the buzz around Windows 10 Creators Update and its cool new features, from enhanced 3D capabilities and social tools to new and advanced security features. But how can Creators help your business? Let’s go over what we’ve seen so far and find out.

3D features

Microsoft wants to bring 3D software to the masses. The Creators Update aims to make 3D feel easy and approachable by integrating the technology with familiar applications Microsoft Paint and Office.

• Paint 3D can turn a sketch into a 3D graphic with a quick tap. The new sticker tool lets users stamp 2D images onto 3D ones. Love your creation? You’ll also be able to print it on a 3D printer.
• Windows Capture 3D is a scanning app for mobile devices that lets you photograph an object in 3D simply by walking around it while shooting.
• Remix 3D is Microsoft’s new destination for sharing creations. It will serve as a community library that you can add to or draw from. Once you finish a sketch, you can share it with the community and post it on social media.

How it will help your business:

• Have we mentioned Paint 3D will be integrated into Office? It will be a dream come true for heavy PowerPoint users looking to design impactful presentations. To get a better feel for the possibilities, check out Microsoft’s demo here.
• Imagine the possibilities for simple product prototyping. For example, a remote team could collaborate on a design and then print the object in their respective offices for testing. Or you could send a prototype to a retail outlet and print it onsite to obtain consumer feedback.

Connectivity and shareability

Need to message or share something fast with a colleague? In the Creators Update, person-to-person contact is going to be front and center.

• A new taskbar feature called MyPeople lets you quickly connect and share directly with your favorite people (or at least, the ones you talk to the most). Instead of looking for a “share” button within an app, MyPeople lets you drag and drop files directly to a friend’s icon to pass them along instantly. The MyPeople experience is also integrated across universal Windows apps for easy sharing.
• There’s also a new widget that lets you Skype or email your favorites quickly, and even toggle between Skype and email within the same window. (It’ll be interesting to see if Microsoft lets third-party app developers have a spot at the bar, too.)

How it will help your business:

• These friendly little updates will have a big impact on efficiency and team collaboration. They’ll be handy when you’re communicating with your team about a complex project (or even just passing along a simple doc).

Aesthetics and usability

From pen functionality to custom settings, here’s a little more of what’s in store.

• The Action Center is getting a refresh with new sliders for screen brightness and volume, as well as a few other quick actions.
• You’ll be able to personalize Windows 10 with custom accent color options, as well as theme collections available in the Windows Store.
• Love your stylus? Lucky you: There will be full pen support in Word. You can even use it to strikethrough text to have it deleted from a document. Give it a try with the new HP EliteBook x360 and optional HP Active Pen featuring WACOM technology.
• The Edge browser now lets you preview tabs by hovering over them.

How it will help your business:

• Customized aesthetics and multiple usability options offer more ways for your employees to stay comfortable and productive. Plus, your employees will likely be using Creators’ consumer-based apps for gaming and music at home, so they’ll come to expect the same customizations and updated OS at work.

Security

New and advanced security capabilities are designed to better help enterprise customers and IT admins protect, defend, and respond to threats.

• The new Windows Security Center will act as a centralized security management portal, integrating with third-party security platforms and linking directly to the Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection suite to follow an attack.
• The Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) tool will come with new actions and insights such as improved detection, enriched intelligence, and enhanced remediation to help you investigate and respond to network attacks.

How it will help your business:

• The centralized portal will allow businesses to track and monitor threats across their Windows 10 devices and network. This could be particularly attractive to large organizations that need to take faster, more comprehensive security measures to protect their endpoint and email infrastructure.

Device management

Microsoft is releasing a number of “best-in-class” capabilities to help IT teams assess, support, and upgrade devices.

• An advanced Window Analytics dashboard will allow organizations to use their own telemetry for device upgrades, updates, and health processes.
• A new Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) conversion tool will automatically convert Windows 7 devices (which use legacy BIOS) to UEFI. This conversion previously had to be done manually.
• A new mobile application management functionality will help protect data on personal devices, even if the device isn’t enrolled in a mobile device management system.

How it will help your business:

• Even though Windows 10 already improves task management, these improvements alleviate concerns businesses have had when moving to a new OS. These updates will expedite and streamline a number of IT management tasks by moving resources and time-intensive tasks to the cloud.

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3D printing has been poised to transform travel for several years. We’re now seeing the beginnings of 3D printed airplane food, jet engines, cars, and even space station equipment. How will 3D printing improve how we get from one place to another? Here are a few jet-setting innovations happening at the intersection of 3D printing and travel.

Air travel

• Airplane manufacturers are exploring the pros of 3D printing for various mechanical parts. Airbus, for example, announced that its next-generation A350 XWB is using a handful of 3D-printed components. Engineers at GE Aviation have created a 3D-printed jet engine—and taken it all the way to 33,000 RPM.¹
• What will tomorrow’s airplane food taste like? Concepts are underway for 3D-printed sky meals made to order for each traveler. Called the Sky Kitchen, it’s an on-demand food system that lets travelers design their own meal on a screen, then have it printed and ready to eat.
• Way in the future, could you imagine printing a new suitcase (and its contents) if you lose your luggage? That’s what Finnish artist Janne Kyttanen is envisioning. In her exhibit “Lost Luggage,” Kyttanen designed an entirely 3D-printed outfit, including shoes and a bag.
• Of course, a 3D-printed luggage tag could prevent your luggage from getting lost at all.

Healthcare away from home

• The medical advances in 3D printing are very important for a traveler who gets sick. Everything from missing pills to a carefully-fitted orthopedic brace could be digitally downloaded from a patient’s files and manufactured at their destination. A recent study predicts that by 2018 the 3D printing market for healthcare will reach $4043 million²—so expect medical advances much earlier than printable luggage or meals.
• Blended Reality, the fusing of our physical and digital worlds, is a versatile concept that can extend to the chemical and biological world. In the convergence of healthcare diagnostics and digital health, it can play a fundamental role in transforming human biology and enabling personalized drug treatments.

Automotive travel

• The automotive industry is hard at work on its own 3D engineering. A recent report suggests that 3D printing in the automotive industry will generate a combined $1.1 billion by 2019.³
• Take Subaru, which has developed a way to 3D-print a working scale model of a Subaru Impreza WRX boxer engine.
• Other manufacturers are 3D-printing entire cars. Check out the LM3D Swim by Local Motors: It’s an electric car made up of 80% plastic and 20% carbon fiber, and its manufacturer claims it’s highway-ready (once it’s available, of course).⁴
• Does your car need a spare part? Instead of having your car sit in the local repair shop for days while it’s on order, the shop could simply print up what you need. That’s what Audi is working on. The German car maker is experimenting with metal 3D printing tech that may eventually extend to their production line and authorized dealers.

Space travel

• 3D printing is hugely important to space travel—not only to help our current astronauts on the International Space Station, but also to figure out ways to sustain ourselves for extended periods of time in space or even on other planets.
• NASA’s 3D printer has already manufactured 3D-printed objects in space, paving the way for future innovations. 3D printing at zero-Gs is an important step towards deep space travel.
• Much of 3D printing tech for space is still in the experimental stages, but there are simpler 3D-printed items available on the International Space Station. While the astronauts don’t have fully 3D-printed meals yet, they are able to enjoy freshly-brewed coffee in a 3D-printed cup. Fresh produce is something the astronauts also miss; hopefully they’ll be able to print up fruit someday, too.

Travel is just one of the many arenas getting revolutionized by 3D printing. As one of the biggest innovators in 3D printing today, HP recently introduced its line of HP Jet Fusion 3D printers, which use exclusive Multi Jet Technology to break through all of the limitations of current 3D printing: speed, quality, and cost. From innovative home and office 2D printers to revolutionary 3D printers, HP continuously takes creativity and productivity to a whole new dimension.

 

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